Working closely with the Head of Legal, ANZ, you will provide strategic, commercial and regulatory legal advice across the organisation. This is is a senior and influential position offering exposure to business-critical initiatives, complex commercial matters and stakeholders across the wider APAC and global business.
The role also provides the opportunity to lead, mentor and support members of the legal team while helping build a collaborative and high-performing culture.
Your new role
You will work closely with the Head of Legal and senior stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand, providing pragmatic legal advice on a broad range of commercial, corporate and regulatory matters, including:
- Commercial contracts, negotiations and business transactions
- Financial services regulation, governance and risk matters
- Product, compliance and operational initiatives
- Disputes, privacy and corporate projects
- Management of external legal advisers
What you'll need to succeed
You will be a senior commercial lawyer with strong technical capability, sound judgement and the confidence to advise within a complex and evolving regulated environment.
You will ideally have:
- Ideally a minimum 9/10 years' PAE
- Admitted to practice as a lawyer in Australia
- A combination of private practice and in-house experience
- Strong knowledge of the Corporations Act and related legislation
- Experience reviewing and negotiating complex commercial contracts
- Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills
- Experience supervising, mentoring or developing legal professionals
- The ability to communicate clear and practical legal advice to senior management
- Strong corporate governance and risk-management awareness
- Experience working or advising within financial services
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or contact Laura on 0280626176/laura.keegan@hays.com.au
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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About us
At Hays, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. You are at the heart of everything we do. With over 50 years’ experience and a workforce of more than 10,000 people across 32 countries, we collectively put our customers, at the heart of everything we do.
Drawing on knowledge that’s unique to our scale, our commitment to understanding your needs and our ability to meaningfully innovate we are more than just a specialist recruitment business. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues you face in today’s fast paced world of work, we’ll help you make the right decisions for tomorrow.
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