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Senior Counsel
ANZ
Auckland, QAT
Full Time
Senior
Hybrid
4 weeks ago
Legal AdvisoryBanking LawFinancial Services LawRisk ManagementCorporate GovernanceStakeholder Management
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About the Role
ANZ seeks a Senior Lawyer to join its Legal Team in Auckland or Wellington. The role involves providing commercially pragmatic legal advice to support the New Zealand Markets and Institutional business teams.
Key Skills for This Role
Legal AdvisoryBanking LawFinancial Services LawRisk ManagementCorporate GovernanceStakeholder Management
Responsibilities
- Deliver legal services to ANZ Institutional and wider business units
- Provide high quality, commercially appropriate, timely and cost effective legal support
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Provide expert legal and corporate governance advice that mitigates risk
- Stay across legislative and regulatory developments while actively managing risk
- Work across the ANZ legal team on joint projects
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in banking and financial services law
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with stakeholders
- Solid understanding of legal risk and governance
- Proactive mindset and strong organisational skills
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About the Role
- As a Senior Lawyer in the ANZ Legal Team, you’ll partner with our ANZ business, risk and product teams to deliver high quality, commercially pragmatic legal advice.
- This role includes supporting the New Zealand Markets and Insights business teams as well as the broader ANZ Institutional team and across the ANZ business.
- You will help manage legal risk, strengthen governance, and enable confident decision making.
What will your day look like?
- Deliver legal services to ANZ Institutional and wider business units leveraging a range of internal and external resources
- Provide high quality, commercially appropriate, timely and cost effective legal support to the ANZ business, providing clear, succinct, pragmatic and plain language advice
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure ANZ’s interests are well represented
- Provide expert legal and corporate governance advice that mitigates risk and supports sound, strategic decision making
- Stay across legislative and regulatory developments while actively managing risk, contributing to risk forums, and supporting process improvements
- Work across the ANZ legal team on joint projects impacting ANZ as a whole.
What will you bring?
- Demonstrated experience in banking and financial services law, with the ability to provide commercially pragmatic, high quality legal advice.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, plain language guidance.
- Proven ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of legal risk and governance, with the ability to balance regulatory requirements and strategic business objectives.
- A proactive mindset, staying across legislative and regulatory developments and contributing to continuous improvement.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work at pace and engage confidently with senior stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
- Capability to develop procedures and facilitate training to help the ANZ business understand and navigate the legal environment.
So, why join us?
- From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.
- We have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'.
- We provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.
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