• Support our commercial, product, finance, compliance and executive teams to sustainably and compliantly grow the Zip business
  • Apply your legal expertise to solve complex problems that positively impact our customers and partners
  • Work flexibly, as part of a collaborative and high-calibre team

Write your story with a career at Zip

As a Legal Counsel on the ANZ Legal Team, you will leverage your strong experience in financial services and consumer finance legislation and transactional matters, working directly with the business with the guidance and support of the General Counsel, ANZ. In this role you will work across all business units – providing legal support. 

Interesting problems you’ll get to solve

  • Advise the Product, Marketing, Operations and Financial Crime Compliance teams on core regulatory obligations
  • Provide concise and strategically focussed regulatory advice for the life cycle of Zip products (including for product launches and updates required due to strategic or regulatory changes);
  • Assist on all regulatory areas that Zip’s business touches on including, but not limited to, consumer credit (NCCPA and ASIC Act), financial services and licencing requirements (including ACL and AFSL), privacy (Privacy Act and Spam Act), AML/CTF, and other payment regulations and industry codes of conduct
  • Manage external law firms in their provision of legal advice
  • Have a deep understanding of Zip’s products and business operations

What you'll bring to the team

  • 5-7 or more years of prior legal experience from a top-tier law firm and/or in-house counsel position
  • Experience with fintech, consumer finance and regulatory laws/regimes in AU (and New Zealand is a plus).
  • Strong internal and external client interfacing skills.
  • Ability to work autonomously and prioritize a workload in a fast-paced culture while delivering sound legal advice.
  • A can do attitude and solutions to the table
  • An aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles.
  • Our values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game

What you’ll get in return

As we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands-on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster.  

Zip is a place where you’ll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.

Zipsters tell us these are just some of the best things about working here. You’ll also receive:

  • 25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
  • Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
  • Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our Wellbeing platform Sonder, discounted private health insurance, and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
  • 2 days paid volunteering leave per year
  • Fee-free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners (AU)
  • Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches (Sydney and Melbourne) 

Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers

We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.

Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

And finally…get to know us

Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.

Operating in two core markets - Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.

We’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.

We are a proud 2024 Circle Back initiative employer and will respond to every applicant.

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We are a proud 2024 Circle Back initiative employer and will respond to every applicant.

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