Senior Legal Counsel, Procurement

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

About the team

The Legal Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal professionals and risk experts. We safeguard Airwallexs operations foster a culture of compliance and ethical conduct and help the business navigate the global financial landscape with integrity.

Within LRC Corporate Legal owns a broad range of corporate and operational legal work including:

• Vendor and other noncustomer contracts

• Marketing referral advertising and sponsorship agreements

• NDAs and general contracting support

• Real estate and insurance arrangements

• Corporate governance M&A fundraising and intragroup structuring

Youll sit in Corporate Legal and be a key partner to Procurement Finance Marketing and other business teams helping them move fast while managing risk across Airwallexs global vendor and partnership landscape.

What youll do

As Senior Legal Counsel Procurement you will be the primary legal partner for global thirdparty spend and noncustomer commercial relationships with Singapore as a key contracting hub. Youll own the endtoend lifecycle of vendor services and sponsorship contracts from structuring and templates through negotiation execution and ongoing advisory support and help embed scalable techenabled contracting practices.

Key responsibilities

1. Vendor and services contracts

• Review draft and negotiate a broad range of vendor and operational agreements including:

  • Technology / SaaS cloud and infrastructure

  • Professional services outsourcing consulting and BPO

  • Facilities real estate and officeservices arrangements

  • Other operational / backoffice suppliers and tools

• Ensure alignment with Airwallexs risk appetite insurance and information security requirements Acceptable Use / ABC frameworks and global contracting policies

1. NDAs templates and playbooks

• Review draft and negotiate NDAs and other standardform documents used by noncommercial teams

• Maintain and continuously improve practical templates fallbacks and playbooks to enable selfserve or lighttouch review for lowrisk engagements (e.g. using Ironclad and other CLM / LegalTech tooling consistent with Contacting Legal: Tools and Best Practices)

• Define clear guardrails and escalation triggers (e.g. unusual IP terms data use exclusivity restricted industries) so Procurement and business teams know when Legal must step in

1. Core contract risk and commercial advice

• Advise on key risk allocation and commercial terms in business contracts including:

  • Limitation of liability and exclusions

  • Indemnities and insurance interplay

  • IP ownership licensing and usage rights

  • Confidentiality and data / privacy terms (with escalation to Data & Privacy where needed)

  • Service levels credits KPIs and termination / remedies

  • Provide clear pragmatic and timesensitive advice to Procurement Finance Marketing Operations and other stakeholders on:

  • Contract strategy vendor selection and RFPs

  • Daytoday contract interpretation amendments and change management

  • Issue escalation dispute prevention and earlystage resolution

1. Insurance and risk transfer

• Review and negotiate insurance clauses and schedules in vendor landlord and sponsorship contracts (e.g. PI cyber GL property D&O event and other relevant policies)

• Partner with Finance and Corporate Legal colleagues who own group insurance to:

  • Align contract language with actual coverage and limits

  • Support placement renewal and evidence of coverage (COIs endorsements)

  • Escalate material gaps overcommitments or unusual requirements

1. Advertising sponsorship and sports partnerships

• Lead or support negotiation and documentation of:

  • Advertising and marketing services agreements

  • Sponsorships and brand partnerships (including with sporting teams events and leagues)

  • Other brand media and comarketing collaborations

• Identify and manage risks around:

  • Brand and IP usage rights packages territories and exclusivity

  • Deliverables benefits content approvals and measurement

  • Morality / reputation clauses termination rights and MAC triggers

• Compliance with Airwallexs ABC / AntiBribery & Corruption Policy Global Acceptable Use Policy cardscheme restricted MCCs and local marketing rules (coordinating with Regulatory Legal Risk and FCC as needed)

1. Global contracting hub and P2P alignment

• Partner with Tax Finance Procurement and Corporate Legal to:

  • Implement and maintain consistent procuretopay (P2P) and contractingentity practices including use of Airwallex (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. as a contracting hub where in scope.

  • Ensure vendor contracts are integrated into the LRC ProcurementtoPay Quick Guide PO processes and costcentre structures

  • Support use of Oracle JIRA and Ironclad workflows for intake approvals and execution

1. External counsel management

• Instruct coordinate and manage external counsel for:

  • Locallaw specialist or highrisk procurement insurance or sponsorship matters

  • Complex crossborder issues or disputes

• Scope questions tightly manage budgets and enforce Airwallexs External Counsel Guidelines (including preference for approved firms and costeffective businessoriented advice)

1. LegalTech AI and process improvement

• Contribute to continuous improvement of vendor and NDA contracting through:

  • Template clause library and playbook development

  • Automation and CLM workflows (e.g. Ironclad) and integration with LRC LegalOps

  • Safe effective use of AI tools (e.g. firstpass review issue spotting playbook checks) with appropriate confidentiality and humanreview guardrails

• Run or support training for Procurement Finance and Marketing on contracting best practices and when to involve Legal

Who you are

Minimum qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with a law degree and current right to practice in at least one commonlaw jurisdiction

• 8 years postqualification experience in a toptier law firm and/or inhouse legal team with a strong focus on commercial contracting and procurement

• Significant experience reviewing drafting and negotiating vendor and services contracts and NDAs including technology / SaaS professional services and other operational agreements

• Demonstrated ability to advise on core contract risk topics (liability indemnity IP confidentiality privacy information security and termination) and provide pragmatic businessoriented recommendations under time pressure

• Experience advising internal business stakeholders on daytoday contractual relationships including issue escalation contract interpretation and change management

• Excellent written and spoken English with strong drafting negotiation and stakeholdermanagement skills across functions and time zones

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting procurement sourcing or vendormanagement functions in a highgrowth technology fintech payments or financialservices organisation ideally across multiple jurisdictions

• Experience advising on insurance policies and insurance clauses in commercial contracts including technology operational and sponsorship contexts

• Experience with advertising marketing sponsorship or sportspartnership agreements (rights brand / IP reputation ABC / AUP cardscheme and regulatory considerations)

• Experience working closely with crossfunctional Legal Risk & Compliance teams (Corporate Legal Regulatory Legal Regulatory Compliance FCC Data & Privacy Risk P2P / Finance) in a global organisation

• Comfort with LegalTech / CLM and AIenabled workflows for contract generation review and knowledge management

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

Required Experience:

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