Legal Content Specialist – Financial Services
LexisNexis
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- Manage the content lifecycle for assigned regulatory modules—strategy, development, commissioning, restructuring, and decommissioning.
- Stay ahead of legislative reform, case law, compliance trends, and sector developments.
- Gather insights directly from customers (pre and post-sales) to shape content that is practical, relevant, and tailored for different industries.
- Cultivate and manage relationships with external contributors such as specialist lawyers, consultants, regulators, and professional bodies.
- Partner with internal teams to define product value propositions, support go-to-market plans, deliver training, and contribute to client presentations.
- Support budgeting and revenue growth initiatives through new content proposals and adjacent market expansion.
- Drive authoring projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring quality and compliance standards are consistently met.
Requirements
- University law degree or equivalent – legal and compliance education and experience preferred
- 3+ years post-qualification experience (PQE), ideally in financial services, banking, insurance or legal/corporate compliance.
- Demonstrated legal drafting and editing skills.
- Strong understanding of how compliance content is used across legal and non-legal industries.
- Prior experience in content/product development, publishing, or legal technology is desirable.
- Strategic thinking with strong commercial acumen.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project delivery skills.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with marketing, finance, and sales teams.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Benefits
- Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance
- Life assurance and income protection
- Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
- Volunteer leave and wellness initiatives
- Birthday leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible working arrangements
- Access to learning and development resources
- Retail discounts and cashback offers
- Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes
- Electric Vehicle Novated Leasing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
legal draftingeditingcontent developmentcompliance standardsproject deliveryregulatory knowledgemarket expansionbudgetingstrategic thinkingcommercial acumen
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementrelationship managementcross-functional collaborationinsight gatheringtraining deliveryclient presentationadaptabilityproblem-solvingteamwork
Certifications
university law degreelegal and compliance education