About The Role

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.