Senior Lawyer, Specialised Finance

2 months ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Westpac Banking Corporation Full time
Job Description
  • Open to location - Melbourne or Sydney
  • Permanent, full time
  • 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?

    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 grow your career, 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?
    • Previous legal experience in a law firm or financial service organisation across institutional lending
    • Previous experience in securitisation and structured finance but experience in trade finance, project finance, acquisition finance or asset would also be beneficial.
    • Strong commercial acumen
    • Solutions-focused with strong stakeholder management
      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?

      Start here. Just click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.

      At Westpac, we're all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone-our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you're interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.

      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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