Senior Legal Counsel

• Be a trusted legal partner: Provide clear, pragmatic and commercially focused advice to senior leaders and teams across the Group.
• Support strategic initiatives: Partner with the business on new products, projects, acquisitions, regulatory change and improvements to our systems and services.
• Shape responsible AI and innovation: Advise on the design and governance of AI-enabled tools and processes across legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy and ethical considerations.
• Lead commercial contracting: Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of supplier, technology, distribution, service and other commercial agreements.
• Navigate complex regulatory matters: Advise across consumer credit, AML/CTF, competition and consumer law, franchising, real estate licensing, corporate, employment, intellectual property and related regulatory matters.
• Support customer and regulatory matters: Provide legal guidance on complex customer complaints and support engagement with regulators, government agencies and industry bodies.
• Protect customer and business information: Advise on privacy, confidentiality and the appropriate management and use of customer information.
• Make legal support smarter: Help improve the Legal team's processes, templates and tools to make legal support more efficient and scalable.
• Manage external counsel: Oversee external legal providers, including scope, quality and budget, while identifying opportunities to reduce external legal spend.

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years’ legal experience, ideally gained within financial services, lending, fintech, technology or another highly regulated environment.
• A law degree and current practising certificate.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical advice.
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements.
• Ability to proactively identify and manage legal and regulatory risks while supporting commercial objectives.
• Confidence advising and influencing senior stakeholders on complex or sensitive matters.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail.
• High levels of judgement, confidentiality and organisational discipline.
• A collaborative, solutions-focused approach and the ability to build trusted relationships across the business.

Nice to Have

• Experience within mortgage broking, lending, banking, fintech or financial services.
• Knowledge of the NCCP regulatory framework and Australian consumer credit regulation.
• Exposure to franchising, real estate, technology, privacy, AML/CTF or competition and consumer law.
• Experience advising on AI, data, digital products or emerging technology.
• Experience engaging with regulators or industry bodies such as ASIC, ACCC, AFCA or MFAA.
• Experience managing external counsel and legal budgets.

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.