Salary: Competitive compensation package. Our remuneration is commensurate with industry standards and reflects the valuable contributions you will make to our organization.
Job Description: As a Legal & Compliance Officer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the integrity and transparency of our financial operations. Your primary responsibilities will include the establishment and management of funds and fund counterparties, working on offer and other fund documents, attending to contracts review and registration of deeds, conducting credit, bankruptcy, and reputation checks, drafting and/or coordinating regular fund updates, reports, and monitoring internal risk management systems and the management of external service providers. Additionally, you will be responsible for compliance with Australian Financial Services Licence and Australian Credit Licence requirements, managing corporate authorised representative compliance, AML/CTF, FATCA, Sanctions, and other regulatory compliance. You will work collaboratively with Group Compliance on compliance-related registers, complaints management, regulatory lodgments, policy maintenance/updates, and as further required. You will also keep abreast of regulatory changes, industry trends, and anticipate areas of focus and attention of regulators and embed those within day-to-day operational activities.
Required Skills and Qualifications: To excel in this role, you will require 1-2 years of prior experience in Law within the financial services, funds management, corporate or finance sector. Experience in business, accounting, commerce, or compliance and risk management is desirable. Financial Services Institute diploma and Industry affiliations would be advantageous. You must have excellent legal review and drafting skills, understanding of the funds management industry, services, clients, and competitors. Strong business management skills including pro-active client management are essential. You should possess a strong compliance and risk management ethic with attention to detail in implementing high-quality processes to ensure compliance obligations are met and exposure to risk minimized. Personal traits such as business professionalism, outstanding reputation, high level of integrity, excellent attention to detail, proactive, and continuous learning mindset, collaboration, teamwork, adaptability, resilience, and strong written and verbal communication skills are highly valued. Proficiency in office-based software applications as well as organisation specific applications such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.), MYOB, Titanium Registry Software, etc. is necessary.
Benefits: We offer flexible working arrangements, allowing you to achieve a healthy work-life balance. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work. Internal career opportunities exist so you can take your career further within our organisation.
Others: This role presents an exceptional opportunity for professional growth and development in a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation.