Associate General Counsel
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Offering a diverse range of legal skills and jurisdictional experience across the full range of countries and territories in which our businesses operate, Group Legal plays an important role in the day-to-day and long-term planning activities of all of our businesses around the world. Responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice to senior management and all Group functions, the team advises on and takes an active involvement in all business and operational strategies and initiatives, from legislative and regulatory matters to the setting of policies, standards and procedures for guarding against and reporting on legal risk and reputational management issues.
We are now inviting qualified individuals to join this team in the role of Associate General Counsel, reporting directly to the General Counsel, Australia.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Providing expert legal advice, guidance and support, primarily to Global Banking Markets (GBM) but also Commercial Banking (CMB), focusing on transactional support;
- The management of legal risk, primarily across GBM but also CMB;
- Acting as a trusted adviser to the business by ensuring that commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical legal support and advice is provided in a cost-effective manner to senior management;
- Ensuring senior legal management is fully briefed on major issues arising and legislative changes;
- Proactively and promptly advising the business of material legal developments and their implications;
- Supervision of a team of transactional lawyers within the Legal team.
Qualifications:
To be successful in this position you will need:
- To be an Australian qualified lawyer (or have the ability to become qualified in Australia);
- Knowledge and experience of banking, corporate and securities law concepts and a strong working knowledge of the Australian banking and financial services legal regime;
- Strong Global Banking transactional experience essential (preferably with exposure to Leverage Acquisition Finance and/or Debt Capital Markets transactions);
- Strong leadership, decision making under pressure and problem solving skills;
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
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