General Counsel & Company Secretary

About the role

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.

Key responsibilities

• Trusted adviser to the Chair, the Board and each divisional CEO on governance, risk and compliance

• Member of the Audit & Risk Committee, and owner of Board and Committee calendars, agendas, packs, minutes, resolutions, action registers, delegations and governance records

• Owner of the Group compliance framework: designing systems and training the divisions run, then reporting to the Board on how practice keeps improving

• Company Secretary for Australian Group entities, coordinating statutory administration for New Zealand entities; Group privacy leadership; and Group people and WHS governance oversight

• Facilitator of the Group's annual strategy and remuneration cycles

• Demonstrated practical use of legal-tech and LLM tools in drafting, research, Board preparation or compliance work

About you

• Bachelor of Laws, admitted in NSW, 10+ years' post-admission experience and prior company-secretarial experience, preferably in a multi-entity group

• Comfortable holding the senior legal position across a diverse group — from franchise and competition law to privacy and WHS

• Board-fluent: you have worked with directors, and you write and speak the way boards need

• Highly self-sufficient, with advanced software productivity, document-management and workflow capability

• Desirable: LLM/MBA; AICD Directors Course or Governance Institute Graduate Diploma; and technical depth in prompt engineering, RAG, graph engineering and agentic AI governance

About us

Behind one of Australia's most trusted brands sits a diverse private group spanning retail, property and agriculture, with annual sales in the $100–200 million range. It is large enough that the work matters — competition law, franchising, privacy, WHS, modern slavery and governance across Australian and New Zealand entities — and lean enough that you are the senior legal voice in the room.

Benefits

• Great remuneration plus 15% at-risk incentive on Group results and special projects

• Practising certificate paid

• Initial three-day arrangement, with potential hybrid flexibility and scope to increase to full-time over time