General Counsel & Company Secretary

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.

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!