Senior Legal Counsel – Regulatory Compliance & Content Strategy
Senior Legal Counsel – Regulatory Compliance & Content Strategy
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Job Title:Senior Legal Counsel – Regulatory Compliance & Content Strategy
Location: Sydney, Australia (Hybrid/Flexible)
Employment Type: Full-Time
About GRC Solutions
GRC Solutions is an award-winning provider of compliance eLearning and learning management systems. We empower organisations with cutting-edge compliance tools and education, fostering a culture of integrity while reducing their compliance burden, minimising risks, and enhancing performance. Our vision is to be the premier provider in APAC of engaging, effective, and scalable compliance training solutions that empower organisations to build ethical, inclusive, and compliant workplaces.
The Role
We are seeking a senior lawyer to lead the strategic development of our legal and compliance training content and aligned products and provide high-level legal advice across the business. This is a key leadership role, ideal for a senior legal professional who is passionate about education, regulatory change, and innovation in compliance.
You will be a part of the executive team, impacting and influencing the future strategy and direction of the business. You will lead legal content direction, engage with clients, and ensure our products remain authoritative, relevant, and commercially effective.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Content Leadership
* Lead the legal content strategy and quality assurance for our suite of compliance training products.
* Drive the development and refinement of high-impact eLearning modules across topics covering financial crime, privacy, ESG, modern slavery, whistleblowing, and other compliance areas.
* Monitor legal and regulatory developments and lead the response in updating and positioning content and identifying opportunities for innovation.
* Provide legal input on financial services compliance, including consumer protection, AML/CTF, and ASIC/AFSL regulatory frameworks.
* Oversee and advise on privacy and data protection obligations, ensuring the company and its products comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and related regulatory requirements.
* Drafting regulatory updates, newsletters, regulation schedule and reviewing and revising compliance manuals.
* Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, including content licences, master services agreements, SaaS contracts, service-level agreements, marketing agreements, non-disclosure agreements and data-sharing arrangements.
* Briefing and managing external legal advisers, when required.
* Act as a senior legal advisor and subject matter expert in client consultations, seminar presentations, and webinars.
* Build and maintain strategic relationships with regulators, industry bodies, and compliance professionals.
Corporate Legal Oversight
* Advise the executive team on corporate legal matters, including human resources law, contracts, IP, and privacy.
* Support internal legal operations, including policy development, policy management and corporate governance.
* Mentor and lead legal writers and subject matter experts.
* Foster cross-functional collaboration between content, sales, and account management teams to ensure excellence in content delivery.
Required Experience and Skills
* 5-7+ years post-admission legal experience, preferably with inhouse experience and a background in regulatory compliance, banking services, corporate governance, and human resources law.
* Proven ability to lead legal strategy and deliver clear, plain-language legal content.
* Strong commercial acumen and client-facing experience, with the ability to translate legal obligations into practical, business-relevant training.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills; a confident public speaker and thought leader.
* Experience managing legal or compliance teams.
* A passion for learning and facilitation.
* Experience in legal publishing, education, regulatory compliance, or training development.
* Knowledge of key regulatory regimes beyond Australia (e.g., New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, & Malaysia).
* Understanding of SaaS environments, content licensing, or regulatory technology.
Why Join GRC Solutions?
* Play a key role in shaping the future of compliance education and influencing best practice across industries.
* Join a respected, high-impact team with a reputation for thought leadership.
* Enjoy flexible work arrangements, autonomy, and opportunities for public engagement.
* Work in a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment at the intersection of law, technology, and education.
* Be involved in mentoring & coaching graduate staff.
Our Culture
GRC Solutions is headquartered in Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Singapore.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We offer competitive salary and benefits.
Culture is important to us. We are an inclusive team that builds strength through collaboration. We are known in the industry as the ethical and inclusive organisation that everyone wants to work with and work for. We are people-oriented bridge-builders, known for being easy to deal with and for being great listeners, attentive to our clients' and staff's needs, with practical solutions. We seek to offer our staff a supportive environment where they can grow their expertise and add value to the business.
Applicants must have the right to work in Australia.
Note: This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the position and is not an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with it.
If this sounds like you, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information about this role, please contact
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