Legal & Governance Counsel

Xero

To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world by rewiring the world of small business by making it seamless, simpler, and smarter

Xero is a cloud-based accounting software platform for small businesses with over 2.7 million subscribers globally. Through Xero, small business owners and their advisors have access to real-time financial data any time, anywhere and on any device. Xero offers an ecosystem of over 1,000 third-party apps and 300 plus connections to banks and other financial partners. In 2020 and 2021, Xero was included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index and in 2020, Xero was recognised by IDC MarketScape as a leader in its worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled small business finance and accounting applications vendor assessment.

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

As a key member of the company secretarial function within Xero’s Legal team, you’ll provide high quality, timely and effective legal and company secretarial support and corporate governance advice to the Xero group. 

• 📂 Legal Research
  

  Conduct legal and factual research to collate findings, and inform business and legal decisions.

• 💼 Legal Operations
  

  Review laws and standards to implement, update and maintain the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.

• 💼 Legal Advisory and Risk Management
  

  Advise on the whole spectrum of legal matters that apply to the business and its offerings.

• 🤝 Negotiation
  

  Persuades others to shift their views and/or behaviours with the goal of reaching consensus

• 💭 Critical thinking
  

  Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

• 🔍 Attention to detail
  

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables