Who is Plenti?

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans through smart technology and outstanding customer service. Our proprietary technology delivers award-winning automotive, renewable energy and personal loans to help creditworthy borrowers bring their big ideas to life.

We are a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer value and experience we are taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy and automotive finance markets.

We are a fast moving and ambitious organisation that seeks to bring in smart and capable people who can take ownership of their role to help the business continue to grow and thrive. We have approximately 200 people based in Australia and are a small enough organisation that everyone can make a difference but we have very big ambitions that our passionate team are working to deliver.

Plenti is a founder led organisation and is now listed on the ASX with annual revenue of >$150 million. We are on a mission to be Australia’s best lender!

What’s the role?

Reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel, you’ll join a high-performing legal and compliance team to provide support and advice to Plenti business units on legal and compliance issues across a broad range of legal matters, from consumer credit and financial regulatory, to privacy and complaints, to general commercial work. In addition to interesting and challenging work, you’ll get direct access to the General Counsel, senior management and the Executive Team as well as varied experience from day 1.

What will you be responsible for?

Legal and compliance advice: Provide legal and compliance advice to all of Plenti’s business units. Includes responding to ad-hoc requests, drafting policy and procedure documents, preparing responses to borrower, investor and shareholder complaints and disputes, and reviewing promotional and marketing materials.

New products and features: Provide project and product teams with advice and pragmatic solutions taking into account regulatory requirements.

Agreements: Reviewing various types of commercial agreements.

Assisting with company secretary tasks: preparing boards packs and reports for meetings of subsidiary boards and committees, and minute-taking.

Compliance: Investigate and remediate (as required) incidents and breaches, maintain regulatory registers, prepare and present compliance training to the business.

Monitoring of legal & regulatory changes: Research, advise and effect changes necessary to comply with upcoming regulatory changes.

What will make you successful in this role?

Required

• Tertiary qualifications in law and admission to practice in NSW
• 2-8 years’ PQE
• Fast learner with strong communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work autonomously as well as engage with others in a team environment
• A capacity to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• A commercial approach to problem solving with stakeholder management skills 

Desirable but not essential

• Knowledge of the consumer credit regulatory framework
• Background in banking and financial services law
• Litigation experience

What's life like at Plenti?

Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It’s a place where everyone can “make it happen” and share in the results and rewards.

If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then come help us positively reshape Australia’s financial eco-system. Our start-up culture fosters innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and your career progression. We have a purpose our people believe in, and genuine values that come from deep within our business.