Opportunity for a senior financial services lawyer with strong consumer and business banking experience and a commercial generalist skill set to join a bank with strong values and a purpose‑led culture, as it enters an exciting new phase of growth and evolution.

About the Role

This is a high-impact role for an experienced lawyer ready to provide legal guidance across the full spectrum of banking and corporate operations. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer and working within a respected and cooperative legal team, you will be instrumental in driving the organisation’s compliance, governance and risk posture while enabling strategic and operational goals.

This role is ideal for a commercially minded lawyer with broad in‑house financial services experience, ready to navigate enterprise‑wide legal issues—from mergers and employment law to IP/IT procurement and company secretarial matters.

Key Responsibilities
Provide clear, commercially focused legal advice across banking, corporate, and financial services matters
Lead contract negotiation and management, including SLAs, supplier arrangements, finance agreements and corporate initiatives




Navigate a complex regulatory landscape and ensure compliance with the Corporations Act, Banking Act and relevant ASIC/APRA regimes
Support board and governance functions, including advice on director duties, conflicts of interest and statutory reporting
Collaborate with business units on risk management and dispute resolution strategies
Foster solid stakeholder engagement across senior leadership, regulators and external counsel

Requirements & Experience
Admitted solicitor in NSW with at least 7 plus years’ post‑qualification experience in financial services, banking or corporate law
Expertise in consumer and retail banking law, with an ability to manage a broad portfolio of legal issues (including employment, IP/IT procurement and governance)
Proven stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence at executive and board level
A team-oriented, pragmatic and commercially minded approach to legal problem‑solving
Familiarity with customer‑owned institutions will be well regarded
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📌 Senior Legal Counsel Consumer & Retail Banking City Of Sydney
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