Employment Legal Counsel - APAC

IMC’s Legal team supports the firm’s trading and investment activities across the Asia Pacific region, working closely with global colleagues in London, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Mumbai.
Based in Sydney, this role is a key member of the APAC Legal team, taking ownership of employment and workplace matters across Australia and the broader region. You will operate at the centre of a fast-moving, intellectually rigorous environment, working alongside senior stakeholders across HR, business leadership, and global Legal to navigate complex, high-impact people matters.
This is an opportunity for an experienced employment lawyer to step into a commercially critical role—combining deep technical expertise with sharp judgement and a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset. You will be trusted to handle sensitive and nuanced issues, influence decision-making, and help shape best-in-class employment practices within a business that values precision, speed, and innovation.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Provide legal advice across the full range of employment, recruitment and workplace matters impacting IMC in the APAC region, with a primary focus on Australia.
• Draft, review and maintain employment documentation, including contracts of employment, secondment and transfer documentation and template materials.
• Advise on employee relations matters, including payroll and employment law compliance.
• Provide guidance on intra-group and cross-border transfers, including international relocations and assignments and visa & immigration matters.
• Counsel on privacy related matters in the APAC region.
• Ensure compliance with key employment and workplace legislation, including the Fair Work Act, applicable modern awards, work health and safety obligations, and workplace behaviour requirements.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting IMC as an employer in the APAC region and advise on their practical impact.
• Provide strategic input on the management of employment-related legal risk across the business and work closely with HR to improve HR processes, documentation and workflows and scale operations as the business grows.
• Work with external advisers and global HR and Legal teams and manage those relationships as required.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Qualified lawyer in a common law jurisdiction with a current Australian practicing certificate.
• 6–8+ years’ post-qualification experience, with a strong focus on employment law and privacy.
• Deep experience advising on Australian employment law; exposure to other Asia Pacific jurisdictions is highly desirable.
• Proven experience handling complex and sensitive employee relations matters with sound judgement and discretion.
• Background in private practice at a leading firm and/or relevant in-house experience.
• Experience operating in a high-performance, fast-paced commercial environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise and influence senior business and HR leaders.
• Ability to work independently across different legal jurisdictions and time zones.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, with a practical, solutions-focused approach