Senior Legal Counsel

Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Investments Legal team as a Senior Legal Counsel - Investment Governance. If you're a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane or Sydney, we'd love you to apply.

Why join us?

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

About the role

We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Senior Legal Counsel - Investment Governance, you'll be a trusted adviser and business partner in relation to investment matters, providing specialist, solutions-focused legal advice and services. Your primary focus will be ensuring strong legal, regulatory, and governance standards across all investment activities.

Day to day, you'll:

• Provide targeted legal support for the design and monitoring of legal and regulatory compliance and governance in relation to investments and investments related activities including:
• Ensuring all entities in the Australian Retirement Trust group related to Investments have appropriate licenses (eg AFSL) and is in compliance with their governing documents (eg trust deeds, constitution, IMAs etc).
• CIFIUS, OIO, FIRB, Merger Control and other regulatory approvals and compliance requirements for investments in various jurisdictions.
• Establishment of any new investment entities within the Australian Retirement Trust group.
• Support the Managing Legal Counsels and their teams in implementing new investments (as and when opportunities arise), with consultation with the Managing Legal Counsel, Governance and Sustainable Investments and the Associate General Counsel - Investments Legal.
• Proactively develop additional compliance and other internal policies as required (and amend existing policies as required).

This role is available as a 12-month max-term/ secondment opportunity.

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• Tertiary qualification in Law and current unrestricted practicing certificate as a Legal Practitioner in Australia.
• Demonstrated experience in investment structures, licensing and investment regulatory compliance.
• Extensive post admission experience working at a law firm and/or as inhouse legal counsel (asset manager, superannuation fund, or similarly regulated entity).
• Knowledge of the superannuation industry and associated regulatory regime.
• Robust negotiation, drafting, influencing and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work collaboratively across all levels of an organisation.
• Experience in advising and working collaboratively with business teams to deliver time and business critical projects.

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close Friday, 7 November 2025.

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.