Lawyer / Senior Lawyer – Project Finance and Trade Finance

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Westpac Group Full time
  • Opportunity to work within Westpac's Institutional Bank
  • 2 Permanent Roles – Project Finance & Trade Finance
  • Sydney or Melbourne based – Hybrid Working Environment

How will I Help?

The CIB Legal team is a collegiate corporate legal team providing high quality advice to Westpac Institutional Bank ("WIB"), a Division of Westpac Group. Through the partnership with key internal and external stakeholders this role will support the Westpac Group's legal and risk strategy by influencing, negotiating and consulting. Our legal advice is accurate, timely, cost effective and commercial.

You will provide legal advice and support to WIB's Corporate & Institutional Banking ("CIB") Line of Business. Your primary focus will be on the Specialised Finance products in CIB, but the demands of the business (and CIB Legal's response to that demand) may require you to support other CIB legal areas, including lending to specified industry sectors. These businesses provide finance solutions for Westpac's institutional banking clients, including Australia's largest corporates, financial institutions and Governments.

Key responsibilities in this role will require you to:

  • Independently advise, draft documents and assist in negotiation of transactions in compliance with laws, policies and requirements;
  • Ensure external legal resources are properly and efficiently selected and used
  • Provide insight to CIB business partners on and guide implementation of external advice.
  • Ensure outputs produced by external counsel complies with our policies and requirements;
  • Partner with the CIB business in maintaining awareness of relevant regulatory requirements;
  • Work closely with other CIB Legal lawyers, Financial Markets (FM) Legal Global Transaction Solutions (GTS) Legal and Westpac's wider Legal & Secretariat function and other stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes.

This role will involve advising on a variety of banking transactions, lending and structured finance transactions. You will enjoy working with a highly respected Legal team, flexible work arrangements, and a great range of benefits.

What's in it for me?

This role will work closely with senior leaders in CIB and will liaise with stakeholders across WIB and other Group functions. Through these interactions you will expand your professional network, and continue to refine your business, commercial, and legal acumen.

On a personal note, 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?

To be successful you will have the following:

  • We'd expect you to have extensive and proven legal experience in a law firm or financial services organisation (5+ years PQE) across institutional lending, ideally across a range of sectors and with demonstrated expertise and competence.
  • Experience in project finance, trade finance, acquisition finance, asset finance transactions or other structured finance transactions would be beneficial.
  • You'll have a growth mindset and a willingness to learn about other areas within the Bank.
  • You will be proactive and well versed in understanding how businesses operate and applying your legal expertise and commercial judgement.

What is it like to work there?

For the past 200 years, we've been backing people, businesses, communities, and ideas. As Australia's first bank, we've adapted and evolved, inspired by our customers and a genuine desire to create better futures.

Together, we're creating better futures for all our people, customers, communities, and shareholders. This has been our enduring Purpose.

  • We inspire our people and together we are creating better futures. It's our passion for embracing diversity and creating opportunities that enables them to dream big and fulfil their potential.
  • We empower our customers. It's our strength, agility and heart that gives them the confidence to navigate change and forge new paths. Empowered, our customers are creating better futures.
  • We make change happen in the community. It's our shared vision of a safer, greener and more inclusive world that sees us back new ideas, innovations and individuals who are creating better futures.
  • We deliver for our shareholders by creating better futures together. It's our ability to generate value for this generation and the next, which makes our shareholders proud to invest in us.

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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