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Senior Lawyer, Private Wealth
How will I help?
As part of a Practice Group and reporting to the Practice Leader, your role as a Senior Lawyer, Private Wealth, will help the Westpac Group and our business partners deliver great outcomes for our customers and achieve their goals through exceptional legal advice and services, risk and management and leadership behaviours. You will be working closely with Private Wealth, the business providing banking, lending and wealth services exclusively to high-net-worth clients of Westpac Private Bank. You will apply your breadth and depth of expertise in the law to work independently on complex matters with senior business stakeholders across our Private Wealth business to achieve their business goals. As a Senior Lawyers, you will also contribute to the leadership, knowledge management, operational effectiveness and culture of the Practice Group and Legal Function. In the role of Senior Lawyer, Private Wealth, you'll consult with the Group Executive, General Counsel, Practice Group Heads and Practice Leaders as appropriate and perform the role consistently with the Legal Advice Protocol and Legal Capability Framework.
As an SME in managed funds or registered schemes, you will be responsible for leading the legal and regulatory framework, and its application to Westpac's dealings with its Customers. You will guide and document the development and negotiation of transaction or product documentation and produce thought leadership and knowledge resources in emerging areas of law and regulation. This varied role will have you working across a range of duties including launching new investment funds, fund administration including advising on corporate actions, disputes or rights and obligations in relation to existing investment opportunities, client administration and advising on terms and conditions.
What's in it for me?
You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grown, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
What do I need?
You hold an appropriate tertiary qualifications and professional accreditation (admitted as a solicitor/legal practitioner in Australia) with substantial (at least 12-15 years post admission experience) holding an unrestricted Australian practising certificate. As an experienced lawyer, you have substantial financial services and managed funds technical expertise developed over a sustained period of practice within a commercial environment. You hold extensive experience in Banking, Financial Services and Financial Markets laws and regulations including Corporations Act, ASIC Act, ASX Clearing & Settlement Rules, Market Integrity Rules, DDO, Unfair Contract Terms and Privacy laws. You have a proven track record of reviewing and advising on securities, MIS, unregistered funds, structured products, custodial and depository requirements and agreements. You will have exposure to identifying and advising on legal, regulatory and licensing issues, breaches and remediation projects, focussing on customer centricity. You also have a strong understanding of the laws surrounding disclosure documents such as PDSs, FSGs and wholesale offer documents. You also have a strong understanding of the regulation of financial advice.
To be successful in the role, you will have excellent communication and influencing skills. You have the intellect, agility, strong personal judgement, decision-making and problem-solving skills to build effective and trusted relationships. You are comfortable managing competing demands and can utilize effective project and self-management techniques. You have gravitas and professionalism in challenging situations.
What is it like to work there?
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
How do I apply?
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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call Option 2.3 or email
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