Legal Counsel

• Partner with the business: Provide clear, practical legal advice that helps teams navigate legal and regulatory requirements and make informed decisions.
• Support commercial agreements: Draft, review and negotiate supplier, technology, distribution, service and other commercial contracts.
• Support new initiatives: Provide legal input into new products, projects, business initiatives, regulatory change and improvements to systems and services.
• Support AI and innovation: Advise on legal, regulatory, contractual and privacy considerations relating to AI-enabled tools, data and emerging technology.
• Navigate regulatory requirements: Provide advice across areas such as consumer credit, AML/CTF, competition and consumer law, franchising, real estate licensing, privacy, employment and intellectual property.
• Support customer matters: Provide legal guidance on complex or escalated customer complaints and other customer-related legal matters.
• Manage legal and regulatory risk: Help identify emerging risks and support the business in meeting its legal, regulatory and policy obligations.
• Improve how we work: Contribute to Legal team processes, templates and tools that make legal support more efficient, consistent and scalable.
• Work with external advisers: Support the engagement and management of external counsel where specialist advice is required.

What You'll Bring

• Legal experience gained in-house and/or within private practice, ideally within financial services, lending, fintech, technology or another regulated industry.
• A law degree and current practising certificate.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to turn complex legal issues into clear, practical advice.
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to identify legal and regulatory risks and work collaboratively with stakeholders to find practical solutions.
• Strong relationship-building skills and confidence working with stakeholders across different areas of a business.
• A proactive, organised and collaborative approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience within mortgage broking, lending, banking, fintech or financial services.
• Knowledge of Australian consumer credit regulation and the NCCP framework.
• Exposure to franchising, real estate, privacy, AML/CTF or competition and consumer law.
• Experience advising on AI, data, digital products or technology-related matters.
• Exposure to customer complaints, regulatory matters or working with external legal advisers.

Lendi Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. Bringing together diverse expertise, innovative technology and a customer-first approach, our teams work seamlessly to simplify the property journey, helping Australians find, buy and own property with confidence.

We support our people in a variety of ways, but a few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture.
• Hybrid working arrangement designed to support work-life balance, while fostering meaningful connection and collaboration.
• A holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work.
• Generous paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers.
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service.
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety.

We’re committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community at Lendi Group. We believe that a team reflecting the world around us leads to greater innovation, stronger collaboration, and a more engaging workplace.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group attract, engage and evolve talent and build best-in-class products.

Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.