Job Description
A whole-of-group General Counsel, Company Secretary & Group Compliance role, initially three days a week, working directly with the Chair and Board of one of Australia's most recognised family-owned groups. This is not a contracts-processing job. Day-to-day legal work is handled by Legal Counsel, whom you'll mentor and back on the harder calls. Your time goes where it counts.
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Key responsibilities
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Trusted adviser to the Chair, the Board and each divisional CEO on governance, risk and compliance
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Member of the Audit & Risk Committee, and owner of Board and Committee calendars, agendas, packs, minutes, resolutions, action registers, delegations and governance records
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Owner of the Group compliance framework: designing systems and training the divisions run, then reporting to the Board on how practice keeps improving
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Company Secretary for Australian Group entities, coordinating statutory administration for New Zealand entities; Group privacy leadership; and Group people and WHS governance oversight
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Facilitator of the Group's annual strategy and remuneration cycles
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Demonstrated practical use of legal-tech and LLM tools in drafting, research, Board preparation or compliance work
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About you
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Bachelor of Laws, admitted in NSW,



10+ years' post-admission experience and prior company-secretarial experience, preferably in a multi-entity group
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Comfortable holding the senior legal position across a diverse group — from franchise and competition law to privacy and WHS
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Board-fluent: you have worked with directors, and you write and speak the way boards need
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Highly self-sufficient, with advanced software productivity, document-management and workflow capability
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Desirable: LLM/MBA; AICD Directors Course or Governance Institute Graduate Diploma; and technical depth in prompt engineering, RAG, graph engineering and agentic AI governance
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About us
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Behind one of Australia's most trusted brands sits a diverse private group spanning retail, property and agriculture, with annual sales in the $******* million range. It is large enough that the work matters — competition law, franchising, privacy, WHS, contemporary slavery and governance across Australian and New Zealand entities — and lean enough that you are the senior legal voice in the room.
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Great remuneration plus 15% at-risk incentive on Group results and special projects
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Practising certificate paid
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Initial three-day arrangement, with potential hybrid flexibility and scope to increase to full-time over time
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📌 General Counsel & Company Secretary (New South Wales)
🏢 Dymocks Education
📍 New South Wales