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About the Role
This role supports a high-growth technology business, providing interim support to its payments and regulatory function for a 3-4 month engagement. It operates within a fast-paced, product-driven environment, working closely with senior leaders in payments, risk, and compliance. The engagement offers flexibility in location, weekly hours, and seniority, requiring autonomous operation and pragmatic, commercially grounded regulatory advice. It suits a payments-focused legal professional comfortable in agile, tech-enabled settings managing varied workstreams.
Responsibilities
- Assists in the development and expansion of payments products across Australian, US, and UK markets.
- Provides guidance to Product and Engineering teams on AFSL, AML, and broader risk-management obligations.
- Delivers legal insight and risk-mitigation support for high-priority strategic initiatives and incident response matters.
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships with regulators and technical subject-matter experts.
- Works closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Privacy teams to embed financial-crime considerations into product design.
- Supports day-to-day legal operations to ensure continuity and momentum across the payments legal workstream.
Requirements
- Practical experience in payments and financial services, ideally gained in tech-enabled or product-driven environments.
- Strong working knowledge of licensing, anti-money-laundering requirements, and broader regulatory risk frameworks relevant to payments operations.
- Ability to communicate complex regulatory concepts clearly.
- Ability to work effectively in fast-moving, cross-functional settings with minimal oversight.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities confidently.
- Fits within a flexible engagement model, whether full-time for a shorter period or part-time across the full 3-4 month term.
Skills
- Payments
- Regulatory advice
- Product development
- Regulatory interpretation
- Cross-functional stakeholder engagement
- AFSL
- AML
- Risk management
- Financial-crime
- Legal operations
Location
- Remote
- On-site (client dependent)
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Flexible seniority level
- Contractor
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive compensation and benefits package
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Pension
- Professional development resources
- Learning and development programs
About the Company
- Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent, covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC.
- Axiom enables legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alternative legal services.
- Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement.
- Axiom is proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
- Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
Equal Opportunity
- Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
- Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in each stage of the recruitment process.