Paralegal, Legal

5 hours ago

Sydney, Australia APRA Full time

Paralegal, Legal

The role

The Advisory Legal team is responsible for providing expert legal support to APRA across all industries that APRA regulates. As Paralegal, Advisory Legal - your work will focus on providing support to APRA lawyers in relation to area's including:

- Freedom of Information;
- Knowledge Management;
- Instrument Registration; and
- Document preparation.

This is a newly established role in APRA Advisory Legal and is intended to provide support to experienced lawyers and enhance existing processes.

As a member of an established and agile legal team you will also be involved in providing timely and expert legal support to APRA. This will involve quickly building strong relationships both with members of APRA legal and within APRA more broadly.

Other key accountabilities will be:
Role-modelling APRA values (Integrity, Respect, Collaboration, Excellence and Accountability), self-awareness and innovation; and.
- Delivering high quality, practical paralegal support to internal stakeholders. This should be informed by a 'one-APRA' mindset.

Other key outcomes supported by this role are:

- Assisting to maintain knowledge management databases where legal advices are stored;
- Responding to Freedom of Information requests received by APRA within the required timeframe;
- Supporting the registration of legal instruments on the Federal Register of Legislation. This will entail strong attention to detail, the ability to manage multiple deadlines and strong stakeholder management skills (both within legal and within APRA more broadly); and
- Quickly establishing rapport with stakeholders within APRA.

About you

You will have experience in providing paralegal support to lawyers obtained either in private practice, in house or with a regulator. In particular, experience in relation to Freedom of Information (or equivalent regimes) or will be highly regarded.

To work with us, you need to be an Australian citizen with eligibility to gain a Baseline Security clearance.

About APRA

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) places you at the heart of Australia's financial services industry. APRA serves the Australian community by helping ensure financial institutions deliver on the financial commitments they make, within a stable, efficient and competitive financial system.

At APRA we're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs, feels valued and respected. We aspire to attract and foster diversity of background, thought, and experience, recognising that a broad range of perspectives, approaches and ideas makes us stronger, and better enables us to meet our obligation to protect the financial wellbeing of the Australian community. When applying, please inform us of any adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Job ID APR1419

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