Senior Legal Operations & Process Lead

Naiman Clarke; Sydney; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Naiman Clarke is seeking a proactive Legal Operations professional to join our Sydney-based team in Norwest. The role focuses on building and improving legal workflows, matter-management processes and reporting.

You will maintain matter and contract registers, templates and records, manage external counsel engagements, and oversee invoices, accruals and budgets, while supporting our document-management systems. This is a hands-on role with regular interaction with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal operations or legal/project management
• Experience improving workflows, registers, templates, precedents and document-management processes
• Strong finance administration experience across invoices, budgets, accruals and external providers
• Advanced Microsoft 365 skills and familiarity with legal or contract-management systems
• Strong organization, attention to detail and reporting capability
• Confident working with senior stakeholders, lawyers, Finance and external providers
• Commercially minded, adaptable and comfortable working in a lean environment
• Legal qualifications and admission are not required, as this role does not provide legal advice

Responsibilities

• Build and improve legal workflows, matter-management processes and reporting
• Maintain matter and contract registers, templates, precedents and legal records
• Manage external counsel engagement, panel information, rates and administration
• Oversee legal invoices, purchase orders, accruals, budgets and cost tracking
• Support legal technology, contract-management and document-management systems
• Coordinate key legal deadlines, approvals, reporting cycles and team administration
• Provide executive support to the Chief Legal Officer across meetings, travel, board papers and general administration

Skills

Legal operations

Workflow improvement

Matter management

Document management

Finance administration

Microsoft 365

Stakeholder management

Tools

Contract management systems

Finance systems

Legal tech platforms

Job description

Naiman Clarke is seeking a proactive Legal Operations professional to join our Sydney-based team in Norwest. The role focuses on building and improving legal workflows, matter-management processes and reporting.

You will maintain matter and contract registers, templates and records, manage external counsel engagements, and oversee invoices, accruals and budgets, while supporting our document-management systems. This is a hands-on role with regular interaction with senior stakeholders.