Senior Lawyer

3 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Westpac Group Full time
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 Consumer & Industrial, Financial Institutions and Government sectors, but the demands of the business (and CIB Legal's response to that demand) may require you to support other CIB industry sectors.
These businesses provide finance solutions for Westpac's institutional banking clients, including Australia's largest corporates, financial institutions and Governments.
Some of the key accountabilities are: 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 comply 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.
What's in it for me? You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 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? Extensive and proven legal experience in a law firm or financial services organisation (10+ years PQE) across institutional lending, ideally across a range of sectors, with demonstrated expertise and competence and an ability to provide guidance and leadership to more junior lawyers; Experience in fund finance, acquisition finance, asset finance transactions, or other structured finance transactions would be beneficial; Growth mindset and a willingness to learn about other areas within the Bank; Proactive and well versed in understanding how businesses operate and applying your legal expertise and commercial judgement.
What's it like to work there? We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other.
At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.
We'll empower you to shape your career path.
Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.
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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, veterans and reservists, 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.
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