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About the Role

This role involves leading the legal and compliance agenda across Australia and New Zealand for an international insurtech firm, serving as a strategic advisor to regional leadership. The work will shape the organization’s legal posture, ensure regulatory readiness, and guide compliant market entry, while strengthening legal and regulatory foundations to support operational integrity and scalable growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical legal guidance on Australian insurance, financial services, and regulatory requirements, including ASIC, APRA, and AFSL obligations, while supporting market entry across ANZ.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements such as NDAs, distribution agreements, addendums, renewals, and terminations.
• Advise on product design, distribution structures, customer outcomes, and regulatory developments to ensure legal, commercial, and compliance alignment.
• Act as the primary interface with regulators in Australia and New Zealand, coordinating filings, notices, responses, and required reporting.
• Implement and enhance compliance frameworks, governance controls, AFSL maintenance, conduct oversight, breach management, and operational compliance.
• Maintain accurate legal records, prepare research and reports, support Group OGC initiatives, and build scalable legal and compliance practices as the business grows.

Requirements

• Law degree from a recognised Australian university, admission to practice, and 5–8 years’ experience in a law firm or in-house legal team.
• Practical experience managing AFSL obligations for an insurance brokerage, including licence conditions, governance, representative oversight, breach assessment, and regulatory reporting.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal research abilities, with clear written and verbal communication that translates complex issues for commercial stakeholders.
• High accuracy, confidentiality, and reliability, with a proactive, pragmatic, business-oriented approach and the ability to build strong relationships in a global environment.

Skills

• Legal guidance on Australian insurance, financial services, and regulatory requirements
• ASIC, APRA, and AFSL obligations
• Drafting commercial agreements
• Reviewing commercial agreements
• Negotiating commercial agreements
• Advising on product design
• Advising on distribution structures
• Advising on customer outcomes
• Advising on regulatory developments
• Regulatory interface
• Compliance framework implementation
• Governance control enhancement
• AFSL maintenance
• Conduct oversight
• Breach management
• Operational compliance
• Legal record maintenance
• Research and reporting
• Building scalable legal and compliance practices

Location

• Australia
• New Zealand

Work Type

• Remote
• On-site (client dependent)

Experience Level

• 5-8 years

Education Level

• Law degree
• Admission to practice

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, enabling legal departments to drive efficiency and growth with best-in-breed alternative legal services.
• Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement, committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
• Axiom offers both consultants and employees the opportunity to work with an enviable client roster.

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 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.