Senior Legal Counsel

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: North Sydney, New South Wales

Job Category: Insurance & Superannuation,Legal

Job Description
Zurich Cover-More helps people travel safely across the globe every day. We are there at every step of a traveller's journey, to keep them safe and help them out if something goes wrong. We are committed to providing reliable, fast, flexible and bespoke services for our customers as well as the many well-known brands we partner with

Reporting to the APAC General Counsel, the
Senior Legal Counsel
is responsible for the delivery of high quality, timely and cost-effective legal services to meet the business' strategic and operational needs. This is a
permanent full-time
position based in
North Sydney
, NSW.

So, what's the job?

• You'll mainly focus on Australia & New Zealand regions & other Asian entities

• You'll provide quality, timely and cost-effective 'solutions orientated' corporate & commercial legal advice, across some of the following key areas:

• Financial services advice & distribution laws

• General commercial & corporate law
• Competition & consumer protection law
• Regulatory inquiries, investigations & regulatory reform
• Intellectual property, branding & technology
• Data protection & privacy law
• Commercial disputes & litigation

• Employment law is not essential but is a bonus

• You'll draft, negotiate & advise on insurance distribution & service contracts as well as commercial contracts (including information technology, outsourcing and third-party contracts)

• You'll provide legal advice in relation to product development, legislative and regulatory changes
• You'll advise and assist in regulatory dealings & engagement
• You'll mentor junior staff members, develop precedents & deliver training to the Business
• You'll support with Company Secretarial functions as well as identifying & managing governance issues
• You'll provide support to APAC General Counsel and take on delegated duties as requested

Important to your success – let's grow together

• A positive mindset to support strategic outcomes
• Ability to analytically assess issues & communicate advice clearly & in a non-legalistic way & provide professional judgement in complex or sensitive matters
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build & maintain trustful, working relationships at all levels of the organisation; able to demonstrate professional & tactful customer relationship skills
• You will have a strong understanding of company statutory reporting requirements
• Strong written communications skills & ability to produce a variety of documents that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought, and orderliness of presentation

And what are we looking for?

• Min 10+ years qualified legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of an Australian State or Territory
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Law with a current unrestricted practising certificate
• Extensive Corporate/Commercial experience essential with Financial Services product, general insurance and/or travel insurance exposure beneficial but not essential.
• Working knowledge of the Corporations Act, particularly Ch 7
• Demonstrated experience in providing quality in-house legal services
• Experience in offering a client focussed approach to legal services delivery

So, why choose us?
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability and determination.

We have more than 2600 employees worldwide: we're a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts and customer service professionals. We share a global mission to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.

Job flexibility.
We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid work week policy ensures our employees maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 5 days in the office per fortnight.

Career growth.
We want you to continue to learn, develop and bring your ideas to the table. We want to hear what you think, and we want you to work with the business - not for the business

Take the time you need, for you and your community.
We encourage you to take the time you need, when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.

Travel and work with us.
We'll help you keep travelling in your career, oh and quite literally with free travel insurance.

Diversity and inclusion.
We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. So whatever walk of life you wander, just be you and come as you are.

APPLY TODAY AND LET'S GO GREAT PLACES TOGETHER
To learn more about working at Zurich Cover-More, check out our careers and benefits page