Junior Legal Counsel and Compliance Advisor
- A superb opportunity to step into a role where you can grow & develop your career within the world's leading sustainable building materials company.
- Opportunity for training and career development opportunities.
- Employment stability - permanent role.
- North Sydney location surrounded by an array of excellent cafes and restaurants, making it a vibrant and convenient location to work.
Holcim:
Holcim is the leading partner for sustainable construction, creating value across the built environment from infrastructure and industry to buildings. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Holcim has more than 45,000 employees in 43 attractive markets - across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa. Holcim offers high-valued end-to-end Building Materials and Building Solutions, from foundation and flooring to roofing and walling - powered by premium brands including, ECOPact(R) low-carbon concrete and Geostone.
Holcim is certified as a Top Employer 2026 by the Top Employers Institute, recognising our commitment to creating a workplace where people thrive.
About the opportunity:
This is an important role in an extremely busy and fast paced environment in which you will provide pragmatic, commercially focussed legal and compliance advice within the Holcim risk appetite.
The role will see you providing advice on a wide range of legal issues across a variety of areas including construction; transport; property; planning; commercial and corporate; procurement; safety; environmental; and insurance. The role will see you maintaining and delivering Holcim's compliance program to ensure integrity and transparency including assisting with policies, procedures and internal audits.
Further and detailed responsibilities are found in the Position Description which is available upon request and will include:
- Provision of timely, accurate, concise and appropriate advice for the commercial context in which it is being provided.
- Understanding HANZ's risk appetite and applying that knowledge in providing advice.
- Supporting other legal team members.
- Helping to drive continuous improvement of the legal knowledge centre.
- Researching new areas of law as required to ensure Holcim is ready for any change in the legislative environment.
- Writing brief advice and matter summaries under supervision of more senior lawyers.
- Maintaining and delivering to the approved compliance program to ensure adherence to all applicable legal, regulatory, and Group requirements, fostering integrity and transparency.
- Assisting with compliance policies, procedures and internal audits.
- Supporting the legal and compliance training plan, reporting requirements, communications, and follow-ups.
- Actively leading and promoting a safety culture at all times.
About you:
- LLB.
- BBus (highly valued).
- Certificate in Compliance and Risk Management or similar qualification (highly valued).
- Emerging Post Qualification Experience or an experienced paralegal with credible experience gained in a corporate environment or in a law firm.
- Proven experience in working autonomously against a set annual program.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong influencing skills.
- High level of legal and commercial acumen.
- Ability to work co-operatively in a team.
- Extensive Microsoft and Google Suite experience.
- Experience with an e billing platform.
- Experience with AI tools.
Why Holcim?
At Holcim we offer an inclusive environment, where our people feel comfortable bringing their authentic self to work. We offer a high-performance workplace empowering problem solvers, creative thinkers and innovators to seek combined perspectives and voice opportunities to go further and faster. Our workplace is a safe environment where individuals can be themselves and where we promote a diverse workforce. We are an equal opportunities employer, making no distinction on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. People are treated fairly at work - respecting and supporting human rights and non-discrimination. This is rooted in the values and standards set out in the Holcim Code of Business Ethics.
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Candidates must hold valid Australian work rights with no restrictions on employment duration or hours worked. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept Holiday or Student visas.
We are dedicated to improving employment outcomes and
encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Holcim will not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings.
