About this role
- Permanent full-time opportunity
- Open to all locations in Australia
- Hybrid working arrangements
What’s the role?
Join our Private Wealth Legal team as a Lawyer / Senior Lawyer and work across a diverse portfolio of complex, commercially focused financial services matters.
You’ll advise on a broad range of matters, from product development and transformation to regulatory change and remediation. It’s a great opportunity for a commercially minded lawyer who enjoys variety and working across different areas of financial services law.
Responsibilities:
- Provide practical, commercial and risk-focused legal advice across Private Wealth products, services and operations.
- Partner with senior stakeholders on transformation, product and service development, growth initiatives and regulatory change.
- Advise on commercial, supplier, outsourcing and transition arrangements, including complex negotiations.
- Support disputes, complaints, remediation, regulatory investigations and other significant legal matters.
- Advise on governance, customer communications, disclosure, licensing and regulatory obligations.
- Identify and manage legal and regulatory risks while developing practical solutions and building strong stakeholder relationships.
What do I need?
- Admission as a lawyer with significant post-qualification experience, ideally 8+ years’ PQE.
- Strong experience within banking, financial services or a comparable commercial environment.
- Broad financial services knowledge and confidence working across a range of products and legal matters.
- Experience in private wealth, online share trading, securities, managed investments, structured products or custody would be highly regarded.
- Strong commercial judgement and risk awareness, with the ability to manage complex matters autonomously.
- A practical, collaborative and solutions-focused approach, with the flexibility to support changing priorities.
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
- Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
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