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 collaborative 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 explicit, 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 strong 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 collaborative, 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)
🏢 Greenfields Executive Recruitment & Search
📍 City of Sydney