Senior Legal Associate

Description

• Coordinate stakeholder relationships and legal workflows to support key project milestones, ensuring timely and aligned legal inputs.
• Identifying, allocating, and mitigating legal risks across all phases of a project—from development through to operations.
• Interpreting complex regulatory frameworks and applying them to project structures, operational decisions, and compliance strategies across jurisdictions.
• Manage legal approvals and budgets in line with Akaysha’s governance framework, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations throughout project delivery.
• Lead and negotiate complex, high-value project and finance agreements for BESS projects through to execution, ensuring alignment with Akaysha’s risk appetite and strategic objectives in collaboration with legal stakeholders.
• Support project financing by reviewing and negotiating tripartite agreements and finance instruments, providing legal input on due diligence and lender requests, and ensuring alignment with project and business objectives.
• Structuring complex project and finance agreements (e.g. EPC, OEM, offtake, tripartite) that balance legal risk, commercial outcomes, and strategic goals.
• Executing legal components of project finance transactions, including lender negotiations, due diligence, and alignment of finance instruments with project documentation.
• Embedding legal governance frameworks into project and corporate workflows, ensuring alignment with internal approvals and external obligations.

Requirements

Benefits

• Competitive pay with above-market performance bonuses and long-term incentives.
• Benefits such as annual wellbeing allowance, generous paid parental leave, employee and family assistance programs, and mobile phone allowance.
• Professional Development Support including annual development allowance, additional paid time off, and curated learning content.
• Career support that works for you including both people and knowledge leadership promotion pathways, lateral moves and temporary secondment options.
• Hybrid and remote-compatible workplace, where flexibility is balanced with connection and every team member can do their best work, wherever they are.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance