The Head of Legal is accountable for the strategic leadership, governance, performance, and transformation of the Momentum Investments Legal Function, ensuring that the business operates within a robust, commercially pragmatic, and forward-looking legal and regulatory framework while enabling sustainable business growth, innovation, and market competitiveness.
The role serves as the divisional legal authority for Momentum Investments and is responsible for providing strategic legal leadership across all business areas, operations, products, jurisdictions, and governance structures.
The Head of Legal is responsible for:
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Divisional legal risk management and governance
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Strategic legal enablement of business initiatives
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Supporting the Compliance function with regulatory interpretation and organisational positioning
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Legal oversight of product governance and commercial transactions
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Contracting strategy and commercial optimisation
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Legal technology transformation and AI enablement
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Stakeholder engagement with the Group Legal community, industry bodies, and external counsel
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Leadership and development of a high-performing legal capability
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Litigation strategy
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Alignment and compliance to all Momentum Group Frameworks and policies applicable to the Legal Function
As a trusted legal adviser to the Chief Risk Officer, Executive Committees, Boards, and senior leadership teams, the Head of Legal provides authoritative guidance on complex, high-risk, strategically significant, and reputationally sensitive matters while ensuring legal solutions remain commercially viable, practical, competitive, and aligned to the strategic objectives of Momentum Investments
