The Role

We are seeking a senior attorney to join our Financial Services Legal team supporting our thriving and innovative payments platform and financial services. You will provide legal and regulatory advice on new financial and payment technology services initiatives across Australia and APAC regions, ensuring our platform remains compliant with relevant payments regulations and card network rules. The role involves supporting the launch of new products and services in our portfolio of affiliated companies, expanding into current geographic regions, securing appropriate licenses or approvals, collaborating with business teams, creating and enhancing policies and user‑facing agreements, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with payments partners, and coordinating with cross‑functional teams such as Compliance, Entity Management, Internal Audit, Tax, and Finance.

What You Will Do

Regulatory Advising and Engagement

- Collaborating with business and functional teams to expand certain financial services/payments products in the AU/APAC region.
- Carry out a plan to acquire and maintain needed or desired licenses.
- Collaborating with Government Relations and other teams regarding new regulatory initiatives.

Product Counselling

- Reviewing payments product structure, flows and marketing to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
- Drafting disclosures, terms of service and other user‑facing language for payments product launches and updates.
- Identifying legal ramifications related to growing eBay’s operating model concerning payments products.

Ongoing Support

- Partnering with business and functional groups to understand, structure, draft, negotiate and close commercial agreements with external partners.




- Collaborating with commercial and operational partners to carry out a regulatory and licensing strategy concerning certain payments products.
- Collaborating with the payments business unit, product, tech, and functional groups to provide real‑time legal advice and develop creative solutions for business goals.
- Supporting the resolution of customer claims.

What You Bring

- A law degree and authorized to practice law in Australia.
- 7–10 years of legal experience at a global FinTech or marketplace platform at scale.
- Strong preference for AFSL experience.
- Experience working with AUSTRAC, ASIC, APRA and/or RBA.
- Experience advising on financial services/payments regulation and card network rules.
- Experience providing strategic regulatory advice to business, engineering, and compliance teams.
- Experience working cross‑functionally and using critical thinking to achieve business objectives.
- Ability to handle and deliver across a number of top‑priority projects.
- Strong business acumen, excellent communication, negotiation, analytical and problem‑solving skills, and ability to work optimally in a high‑growth, fast‑paced environment.
- Flexible and agile problem‑solver tolerant of ambiguity in a fast‑paced environment where change is happening every day.
- Ability to balance legal and business risk.
- Good sense of humor and team spirit.

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at . We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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📌 Sr. Counsel, AU/APAC Pymts & FINSERV (City of Sydney)
🏢 Ebay
📍 City of Sydney