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Form of workABOUT YOU
As part of the Leadership team and reporting directly to the General Manager, you are hands on and use your sound judgement to provide commercially focussed legal and solution-based advice across the business and to our customers. You are a trusted partner who lives our values and aligns key strategic legal initiatives with business objectives to drive organisational success, and fosters a positive, collaborative, and safe work culture.
You direct the Independent Legal Practice of Mutual Marketplace Legal Pty Ltd and lead a team of 4 lawyers and 1 paralegal.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Your working week will be busy and diverse, including but not limited to the following core responsibilities of:
- Ensuring Mutual Marketplace complies with statutory obligations under relevant laws and regulations;
- Supervising and coaching direct reports to continue their growth and maximise capability;
- Strengthening working relationships with internal stakeholders, customers, external legal teams and vendors;
- Working with the Board and Leadership team in the management of corporate governance and risk obligations;
- Leading the development and updating of standardised agreements and other legal documentation for the business and its customers.
SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
- Law degree qualified and eligible to hold an unrestricted Principal Practising Certificate in Queensland.
- A minimum 5 years’ experience at General Counsel level with experience in both private practice and inhouse practice.
- Experience as a Company Secretary.
- Knowledge and experience as principal of an incorporated legal practice or a willingness to be the Legal Practitioner Director of Mutual Marketplace Legal Pty Ltd.
- In depth knowledge and experience in financial services (preferably in retail banking) and contracting and procurement across multiple Australian jurisdictions.
- Demonstrated success in managing stakeholders and their needs, preferably in a shared service environment.
ABOUT US
Mutual Marketplace Pty Ltd is a shared services company that is jointly owned by two of Australia's largest credit unions, Great Southern Bank and Heritage and People's Choice. We provide high-quality, customer-driven shared services to the mutual banking sector, to help drive industry sustainability. We do this by putting our customers at the heart of everything we do and are always innovating, improving, and simplifying how we do things.
Our purpose is to deliver shared services that make business simple.
Central to all that we do, our values are Kindness, Ambition, Responsibility and Efficiency.
REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS
When you join Mutual Marketplace, you are joining a supportive, driven team in a collaborative work environment with a great company culture, where you can grow and thrive in the next step of your career. Our people are at the centre of what we do, and we also offer:
- Competitive remuneration package – reviewed annually.
- Flexible work-from-home options and start-finish times - possibility to negotiate hours.
- 5 additional ‘life leave’ days per year, purchased annual leave options and 10-weeks paid parental leave.
- Employee Assistance Program, supporting you and your family’s health and wellbeing.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Annual flu shot.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Please apply via Seek with a covering letter and resume outlining your experience and personal attributes in relation to the core competencies of this role. Applications close 5:00pm Friday 9 February.
We respectfully ask that no agencies contact us at this stage.
Applicants must have the right to work in Australia. For further information or for a confidential discussion please contact Human Resources at ****@mmpl.com.au.
Mutual Marketplace is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that celebrates the difference in all our employees. We endeavour to ensure our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all applicants, and if you require any special accommodations to apply for this role, we encourage you to let us know at the time of your application.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Mutual Marketplace (‘We’ ,‘we’ or ‘us’) collects personal information you provide in your application, and via the application process, to assess your application. During the application process, we may collect personal information about you from third parties, such as references from referees, academic institutions or training, providers of licence and background-checking services, recruiters, and other assisting service providers, and publicly available sources such as social media platforms. If you choose not to provide the personal information requested, we may be unable to process your application.
We disclose your personal information to our workers who assist us in operating our business, third parties to whom you have agreed we may disclose your information, or as otherwise required or authorised by law. We use third-party service providers to assist us assess your application, and those third-party service providers may have access to your personal information. Some of those service providers are located overseas, such as LinkedIn and Microsoft located in the United States of America. We take reasonable steps to ensure these third party service providers have appropriate security for your personal information, and where possible, we require that personal information be held on servers located in Australia.
More detailed information about how you can access and request correction of personal information we hold about you, and how you can make a complaint about a breach of privacy, can be found in our privacy policy, available by sending an email to *****@mmpl.com.au.
