Senior Legal Counsel

AMP

Sydney, NSW
Permanent
Full-time

29 days ago

Job Description:Senior Legal Counsel

It is a great opportunity with a combination of FinTech, start-up and heritage for the new Bank division.
Work within a dynamic, agile, start-up culture.
Collaborate with market leading global partners and have fun along the way.

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you've likely heard of AMP. But at a time when society is changing, we are too. We're now a nimbler business with new leadership and thinking.For us, these are exciting times. There's a real potential for big thinkers to help us redefine what financial services could be. And turn our legacy into something even more positive and powerful for the future.Help people create their tomorrow, while you create yoursWe help people with their banking, super, retirement and finances. Through upturns, downturns, recessions, and major life transitions. Every day, we help people see and make more of their financial potential, so that they can create their tomorrow. And we've been doing it for over 170 years.If we do our job well, we genuinely add to the prosperity of our country and its people.AMP Bank's new digital divisionAMP Bank will launch a new division in Q1 2025 that will target small businesses, sole traders and consumers. We're on a mission to build Australia's leading digital bank for everyday Australians. The new division will offer transaction and savings accounts designed to provide tailored functionality and features to help small business owners and consumers manage their finances 'on-the-go' from their mobile phones.For us, these are exciting times launching a new initiative for AMP Bank that will position us to support Australia's growing number of small businesses with their banking needs and further deliver on our purpose, helping people to create their tomorrow.How you'll make an impactYou will be helping us in creating a new digital bank by providing legal advice, guidance, and support to the new division. Your understanding of the banking regulatory environment and your commercial insights will help ensure the new division operates within its Risk appetite and makes informed decisions which enable it to develop at pace and scale quickly.

Proving legal advice and support to senior management and business areas relevant to ADIs, banking and bank products
Helping align outcomes sought with the obligations - the new division is thinking differently and that requires legal support.
Supporting the development of new banking products, in particular;

Ensuring legal considerations are integrated into business decisions, including design and delivery of new products
Helping design new digital onboarding journey
Drafting customer communications, TMDs and terms and conditions.

What you will bring to the team

Previous experience working in a heavily regulated industry, ideally in banking services
At least 8 years post qualified experience gained in private practice and/or in house
In depth understanding of the obligations applicable to ADIs and related risks

This opportunity is unique as it provides you with a wide range of responsibilities and a chance to develop your own career. The role will utilise your FinTech expertise with heritage banking that will contribute to our new Bank Division. You are an excellent relationships builder, communicator and can easily adopt to the agile and fast-paced environment.What makes you unique is your continual curiosity and an inquisition mindset and ability to analyse difficult issues and issue, identity, and provide solutions. Your outstanding decision-making will drive customer-oriented solutions.To obtain a detailed Job Description please call Milica Radomir on 02 9257 5036You'll thrive here if…If you can adapt from BAU to the ambiguous with ease, you'll do well here. Change is never easy, so bring your commitment, grit and growth mindset.Because we run lean, you'll be expected to jump in and deliver across a variety of areas. Meaning, you'll be closer to the action and executive decisions that influence where we go next.If you're someone that can hold their own, you'll find AMP quite liberating.Why we think you'll love working at AMPDoing what we've always done is not an option, so your clever ideas will get airtime here. You'll be encouraged to speak up and try new things. If they don't work, we move on - better for it.We know there's no one way of doing things. So, you won't have to sacrifice who you are or how you work to fit in here. We're inclusive and flexible in many of the ways you'd expect. And in some of the ways you wouldn't. As long as your health and wellbeing come first - at home and at work.In fact, most of what makes AMP such a welcoming, enjoyable place to work are our people. Wherever you go, you'll find moments to connect, feel valued and do meaningful work.Whether it's through our first-class leaders who are invested in you and your success. Through year-round opportunities to volunteer, fundraise and give back to the community. Or in the everyday challenges you face as we work together to strengthen this great organisation. Challenges that will stretch you, amplify your potential and compound the impact you have.We believe in the power of inclusion and diversityWe're dedicated to fostering inclusion, diversity, and a warm feeling of belonging at AMP. It sparks creativity, ignites innovation, and turns up the dial on the quality of our decisions and performance. This not only makes our workplace more engaged, but also leads to better connections with our customers.We're your allies in the search for the perfect fit - when you apply, let us know how we can support you to put your best self forward during our selection process.We're also committed to enhancing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, so we enthusiastically encourage candidates from these backgrounds to apply and explore our Reconciliation Plan on our websiteReady to create your tomorrow?If you're someone who sees opportunity where others see challenge, come and work with us in smart, progressive ways as we transform an iconic Australian brand for the future. And, through a series of career-defining moments, create your own tomorrow.Don't procrastinate! We review applications when we get them, and if we discover the ideal candidate, we may close the role earlier than the advertised close date.Looking forward to meeting you.

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