About this role
Create your best future and join Westpac as a Lawyer, Financial Markets (Trading, Product & Issuance)
- Permanent Full-time opportunity
- Sydney based
- Hybrid working model
What’s the role?
As a Lawyer, you will build strong relationships across the Financial Markets business and support functions to understand strategic priorities and identify emerging legal and regulatory risks.
You will provide expert advice on financial products and services, including new product structuring, regulatory and prudential compliance, and broader business considerations. Additionally, your role will include the drafting and reviewing a wide range of legal documentation such as terms and conditions, trade confirmations, and financial markets agreements. You will also contribute to product and business reviews, ensuring legal input is provided early and effectively. In managing external counsel, you will oversee engagement and drive cost‑efficient, high‑quality outcomes for the organisation.
What do I need?
- Admitted to practice as a solicitor in NSW
- Minimum 4 years PQE experience in private practice or supporting a financial markets/ financial services business
- Experience with financial markets regulation and/or financial markets documentation
- Excellent commercial acumen, problem solving, decision making and judgement
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with key internal stakeholders
- Experience in global derivative regulations highly regarded
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
- Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives
Create your future today
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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website.
Other facts
About Westpac Group
From rescue helicopters to signing the Equator Principles, from paying super during parental leave to adding 'Touch ID' biometric technology to our banking apps and being first on the scene with a helping hand in times of crisis... we have a proud history of stepping up to be first for our customers, communities and people. As Australia’s first bank and Australia’s first company we put service at the heart of everything we do and our people are our priority.
We've grown up as a company and expanded both in Australia and throughout Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Now we are made up of your favourite financial institution names including Westpac, BankSA, St.George Bank, BT Financial Group, RAMs and Bank of Melbourne, a change of job doesn’t mean a change of employer at Westpac Group.
We've made a commitment to put our customers first in everything we do. This means creating fundamentally superior customer experiences for each customer, every time. We promise that when you meet with someone from Westpac Group, you'll be touched by their genuine dedication to helping our customers prosper and grow.
Westpac Group acknowledges the traditional owners as the custodians of this land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Australia's First Peoples, and to their Elders, past and present.
What you'll do
- As a Lawyer, you will provide expert legal advice on financial products and services while managing external counsel to ensure cost-efficient outcomes. You will also draft and review legal documentation and contribute to product and business reviews.
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