Legal Counsel | In-house Lawyer

Our client is a non-bank lender providing invoice finance, supply chain finance and business loans to Australian SMEs. This is a small team with direct decision-making and genuine commercial exposure, offering the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership rather than within a large corporate legal function.

This is the first dedicated in-house legal role, giving you the opportunity to own the legal function end to end and work directly with the Director.

What you'll do

• Draft, review and improve facility documentation across invoice finance, supply chain finance and secured business loans
• Manage the security position - GSAs, PPSR registrations and verification, guarantees, caveats, mortgages and priority arrangements
• Run recovery and enforcement matters, including demands, security enforcement, guarantor recovery and instructing external counsel on litigated matters
• Protect our client's position in insolvency, including voluntary administrations, liquidations, proofs of debt, secured creditor strategy and DOCA analysis
• Support the funding structure, including warehouse and noteholder documentation, covenant and reporting obligations
• Work closely with credit on transaction structuring to ensure deals are properly documented from the outset
• Keep compliance requirements current across AML/CTF, privacy and contract governance

What you'll bring

• 4-6 years' post-admission experience in banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, or commercial litigation
• Practical PPSA capability - not theoretical. You have experience registering, verifying and enforcing security interests
• Current NSW practising certificate
• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to distinguish between risks that should be documented and risks that should be priced
• Comfortable operating independently without a large legal team around you

What's on offer

• Direct reporting line to the Director, with the opportunity to provide advice that directly influences commercial decisions
• Genuine breadth across transactional, enforcement, insolvency and funding work
• Hybrid working arrangement from our client's North Shore office

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