- 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.