Senior Legal Counsel | Brisbane or Adelaide |

Senior Legal Counsel Brisbane or Adelaide

A rare hybrid senior legal role combining incorporated legal practice work with genuine inhouse counsel exposure.

MMLegal (Mutual Marketplace Legal Pty Ltd part of the Mutual Marketplace Group) is a small ambitious independent legal practice supporting the Mutual Banking sector across Australia.

Were growing and were looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel in either our Adelaide or Brisbane office to play a handson influential role within our legal and commercial team.

We deliver highquality customerled legal and risk support that gives our customers legal clarity and business confidence. By putting customers at the centre we continually innovate improve and simplify how legal support is delivered.

Central to all that we do are our values of Kindness Ambition Responsibility and Efficiency.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Head of Legal this is a senior integrated legal role offering the opportunity to work within MMLegal (our incorporated legal practice) while also providing strategic in-house legal support to Mutual Marketplace.

The role is primarily anchored within MMLegal enabling exposure to a range of advisory work and the opportunity to help shape a growing legal practice. At the same time the role includes an embedded element supporting Mutual Marketplace providing commercial risk aware legal advice to the Procurement Team and across the business.

Your working week will be busy and diverse and include the following core responsibilities (as an example):

Within MMLegal you will:

• Act as Senior Legal Counsel delivering practical commercial advice to MMLegal clients (particularly in financial services / mutuals)
• Mentor junior lawyers and contribute to the development of MMLegal offerings and precedents
• Support growth initiatives new service models and continuous improvement of the incorporated practice

Within Mutual Marketplace you will:

• Provide inhouse legal advice across commercial regulatory and governance matters
• Work closely with the business as a trusted adviser
• Support risk aware decision making projects and strategic initiatives

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated legal professional with the ability to work independently. They will have a minimum of six years/ experience PAE in commercial and contract law and must hold or be eligible to obtain an unrestricted practising certificate. While not essential experience in the banking finance or superannuation sector will be viewed favourably.

In addition you will:

• be experienced in reviewing (plain English) drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and associated documents
• possess strong communication skills with natural ability to speak with a wide range of stakeholders including Mutual Marketplace senior executives and workplace colleagues;
• be experienced in successfully managing stakeholders and their needs
• have strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritise tasks and identify commercial risk.

WHY JOIN MM LEGAL

When you join MMLegal you are joining a supportive driven team in a collaborative work environment with a great company culture where you can grow and thrive in the next step of your career.

Our people are at the centre of what we do and in addition we offer:

• competitive remuneration packages reviewed annually.
• flexible work-from-home options. Our core office days are Wednesday and Thursday plus one other day of your choice.
• 5 ADDITIONAL leave days called life leave per year.
• Employee Assistance Program supporting you and your familys health and wellbeing.
• fully subsidised professional development and training opportunities.
• a collaborative valuesled culture where your contribution is visible and valued
• a genuine focus on wellbeing and worklife balance.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Apply now with both a covering letter and resume outlining your experience and relevant attributes in relation to the core competencies of this role. The role will be appointed as soon as the right applicant is found.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia. Applicants will be required to undertake appropriate background screening and referees will be sought from candidates following the interview process. For further information or for a confidential discussion please contact Human Resources at

Mutual Marketplace & MMLegal is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that celebrates the difference in all our employees. We endeavour to ensure our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all applicants and if you require any special accommodations to apply for this role we encourage you to let us know at the time of your application.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Mutual Marketplace & MMLegal collects the personal information you provide in your application and via the application process in order to assess your application. During the application process we are also likely to collect personal information about you from third parties such as referees when they provide references academic institutions or training certification providers providers of licence and background-checking services recruiters and other service providers who assist in the process and other publicly available sources such as social media platforms. If you choose not to provide us with the personal information requested we may be unable to process your application.

We disclose your personal information to our workers who assist us in operating our business third parties to whom you have agreed we may disclose your information or as otherwise required or authorised by law. We use third-party service providers to operate our business and assess your application and those third-party service providers may have access to your personal information as a result of our use of their services. Some of those service providers are located overseas such as LinkedIn and Microsoft located in the United States of America. We take reasonable steps to ensure these third parties have appropriate security for your personal information and where possible we require that personal information be held on servers located in Australia.

More detailed information about how you can access and request correction of personal information we hold about you and how you can make a complaint about a breach of privacy can be found in our privacy policy available on Mutual Marketplaces website.