Legal Counsel

DLL; Sydney; Vor Ort; AUD 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

DLL seeks a Legal Counsel to provide professional legal services mainly for Australia, with support for New Zealand and Singapore as needed. The role spans healthcare, technologies, and food and agriculture sectors, involving drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial and finance documents.

The successful candidate will standardise local templates, assist with compliance tasks, and collaborate with credit, sales and compliance teams to ensure policy adherence.

Qualifikationen

• Strong drafting skills for commercial agreements, finance documents and priority docs.
• Experience with PPSA, AML/CTF, privacy and Australian Consumer Law.
• NZ or Singapore transactions knowledge is helpful but not essential.
• Ability to collaborate with sales, credit, compliance and external lawyers.
• Tertiary qualifications in Law, admitted to practise in an Australian state or territory.

Aufgaben

• Negotiate and draft local vendor agreements.
• Draft and review customised transactional documents for non-standard transactions (finance, security, etc.).
• Standardise local documentation and keep it up to date.
• Assist collections and recoveries on dispute resolution and insolvency.
• Support AML/CTF, privacy, and review of marketing materials.

Kenntnisse

Drafting skills

Career development in finance business

PPSA AML/CTF privacy ACL experience

NZ/Singapore transactions knowledge

Stakeholder management

Law degree and Australian admission

Ausbildung

Law degree/Admission to practise

Jobbeschreibung

Your function

As Legal Counsel, you will be expected to provide professional legal services primarily for Australia, and for New Zealand and Singapore on as needed basis. This role will have broad exposure to different areas of the business, including healthcare, technologies, and food and agriculture.

Job Description

Your function

As Legal Counsel, you will be expected to provide professional legal services primarily for Australia, and for New Zealand and Singapore on as needed basis. This role will have broad exposure to different areas of the business, including healthcare, technologies, and food and agriculture.

The Legal Counsel will be generally expected to perform the following functions:

• Negotiating and drafting of documentation in respect of local vendor agreements.
• Negotiating, drafting and review of customised transactional legal documentation for non-standard transactions, including finance agreements, security agreements, priority agreements, etc.
• Standardisation of local documentation and for keeping such standard documentation up to date.
• Assisting collections and recoveries team on dispute resolution and insolvency.
• Assisting with various compliance related tasks, including AML/CTF, Privacy and review of marketing materials.
• Working closely with Credit and Compliance departments to ensure internal policy requirements are met for transactions.
• Contributing to DLL Legal’s document and contract library and maintenance of the same.
• As required, instruct and manage external lawyers on matters requiring external legal advice.

Your Profile

• Strong drafting skills for different legal documentation including commercial cooperation agreements, finance agreements, security agreements, priority agreements, etc.
• Strong interest in developing a career in a finance business.
• Past experience in the PPSA, AML/CTF, privacy and/or Australian Consumer Law is required.
• Knowledge of or experience in transactions based in New Zealand or Singapore is not essential but helpful.
• Being able to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders (including sales managers, credit analysts, compliance officers, internal and external lawyers, asset managers, vendor partners etc).
• Tertiary qualifications in Law, admitted to practise in an Australian state or territory.

To Succeed In This Role, You Will Need

• At least two years of PQE gained in a corporate or finance environment, from private practice or in-house;
• Experience in finance agreements, commercial contracts and PPSA;
• Ability to set own agenda and manage your workload in a fast-paced environment;
• Strong relationship building and communication skills.

Ready to work for a company that is Partnering for a Better World!

Choose Wellbeing

DLL’s wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip, and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical, and financial wellness, and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.

Our Four Wellbeing Categories Are As Follows

• Connection – Build meaningful connections with other members
• Health – Manage mental, emotional, and physical health
• Finance – Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
• Lifestyle – Maintain balance between work and life priorities

These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL!

Settling In

At DLL, we are many things. We are team members, family members, community member. We are members of society, members of different cultures and nationalities. Members of change. We each have different beliefs, different passions, different viewpoints, talents and interests. We come from different backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and histories.

But for all of our differences, we share one thing in common: each of us are members of DLL.

Our company was founded in the Netherlands. But today we are truly a multinational business. Our unique culture is rooted in higher collaboration, less hierarchy and a honest directness that enable us to integrate, ideate and innovate across country lines.

Many companies say they are European, American, Asian or Australian, at DLL we are all these places and more.

We are a cross-culture collaborative – an interconnected network – that comes together every single day with one goal in mind: Partnering for a better world.

DLL appreciates the time you spend applying to our openings. We advise only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted. Hiring subject to successful completion of a background check.

DLL is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation in accordance with our values and all applicable legislation.