Job Description
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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.
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This is the first dedicated in-house legal role, giving you the chance to own the legal function end to end and work directly with the Director.
What you'll do n
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Draft, review and improve facility documentation across invoice finance, supply chain finance and secured business loans
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Manage the security position - GSAs, PPSR registrations and verification, guarantees, caveats, mortgages and priority arrangements
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Run recovery and enforcement matters, including demands, security enforcement, guarantor recovery and instructing external counsel on litigated matters
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Protect our client's position in insolvency, including voluntary administrations, liquidations, proofs of debt, secured creditor strategy and DOCA analysis
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Support the funding structure, including warehouse and noteholder documentation, covenant and reporting obligations
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Work closely with credit on transaction structuring to ensure deals are properly documented from the outset
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Keep compliance requirements current across AML/CTF, privacy and contract governance
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What you'll bring n
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4-6 years' post-admission experience in banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, or commercial litigation
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Practical PPSA capability - not theoretical. You have experience registering, verifying and enforcing security interests
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Current NSW practising certificate
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Strong commercial judgment and the ability to distinguish between risks that should be documented and risks that should be priced
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Comfortable operating independently without a large legal team around you
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What's on offer n
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Direct reporting line to the Director, with the opportunity to provide advice that directly influences commercial decisions
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Genuine breadth across transactional, enforcement, insolvency and funding work
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Hybrid working arrangement from our client's North Shore office
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📌 Legal Counsel | In-House Lawyer (New South Wales)
🏢 W3global
📍 New South Wales