About this role
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About us
At Monoova, we partner with some of the most innovative companies in the country, building world-class payment products that support the digital economy of tomorrow. As we scale rapidly, we’re looking for curious, driven, and creative minds to join us on the journey.
As a leading Payment Service Provider (PSP), we’re powering the future of money movement with our API-first platform — integrating NPP, PayTo, PayID, Direct Debit, BPAY, and cross-border transfers into one seamless solution.
Our mission? To help businesses move money smarter, faster, and safer — eliminating friction and enabling real-time experiences. With the broadest set of payment rails offered by any non-bank PSP in the country, we help our clients — many of them high-growth tech companies — reach and transact with up to 10% of all Australians.
Monoova’s Values:
- Integrity – We’re a company built on integrity, inside and outside of our organisation.
- Empathy – We take great care to understand perspectives of everyone in our eco-system
- Innovation – Individually and as an organisation, we are innovators. Everything we do today, can and will be improved tomorrow.
- Performance – We are a results driven organisation with a commitment to technology.
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What you’ll be doing
You will be accountable for:
- Overall ownership of the legal and company secretarial function; Counsel and advise to management and directors on the legal, regulatory and compliance aspects of activities;
- Negotiate, draft and settle contracts and other legal agreements with external legal advisers where necessary;
- Company Secretary of the relevant group entities and/or committees;
- Monitoring and reporting on regulatory, industry and legal developments;
- Engaging with or responding to regulatory bodies and/or industry associations as needed;
- Managing litigation and disputes ;
- Monoova’s insurance requirements, including general and financial lines insurance renewals, review of insurance clauses in contracts, and claims;
- Ownership of the relationship with external legal advisors;
- Responsible for maintaining intellectual property interests and managing employee equity plan;
- Project manage corporate actions and strategic initiatives or objectives within the legal team’s remit;
- Mentoring and coaching the legal counsels within the legal function;
- Proactively manage regulatory change risks and giving strategic advices to the management and Board.
What we need from you:
- You are passionate, self-motivated and enjoy working in a high performing, dynamic environment
- Demonstrated success as in-house counsel and company secretary
- Knowledge and experience of payments systems rules and regulations, and understanding of the technology infrastructure involved
- Deep understanding of the financial services legislative and regulatory environment
- Strong and demonstrated ability to balance commerciality with your legal advice
- Demonstrated ability to effectively and responsibly use AI tools to improve the quality, efficiency and scalability of legal and governance work
- Experience in liaising with senior executives and Board members
- Highly organised with an eye for detail
- Australian qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate. Ideally 10+ years’ experience.
- As Company Secretary you must have experience in Board and Committee governance
Your experience and knowledge
- Knowledge and experience in driving continuous improvements to legal risk and governance management without compromising technical quality
- Experience within fintech, high growth tech or high-volume financial services businesses is highly regarded
- Experience in dealing with strategy, regulatory change / reforms, large scale projects, commercial disputes and corporate actions
Monoova Culture and Benefits
- We reward great work with short-term incentives that recognise your impact and dedication.
- Flexibility with a mix of remote and in-office work. Extra leave benefits like Birthday leave and Diversity leave, to celebrate cultural and personal milestones.
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, so you get extra time with your newborn and to recover
- Enjoy special vouchers for your Birthday and Work Anniversary: because your moments matter.
- Enjoy free snacks, drinks, or other goodies, on the house!