The Opportunity

Join a leading financial services organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.

- Duration: 6 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Melbourne

About You

You are an experienced banking and finance lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations.

Your Experience & Expertise:

- Strong capability in structuring, drafting, reviewing, negotiating and executing a broad range of financing transactions
- Experience supporting institutional banking or relationship banking businesses, providing commercially focused legal advice across lending, customer and transactional matters
- Proven ability to advise on the legal and regulatory framework applicable to banking and financial services, including the Corporations Act, Banking Code of Practice, Unfair Contract Terms regime and related regulatory requirements
- Strong transactional management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and drive transactions to financial close within tight timeframes
- Experience providing strategic and pragmatic legal advice to business stakeholders on complex customer, credit, risk and regulatory issues
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working closely with bankers, credit teams, risk functions, product teams and senior business leaders
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced financial services environment while managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality legal support

Attributes:

- Pragmatic and solutions-focused, providing clear and commercially relevant advice
- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to influence outcomes and manage competing stakeholder interests
- Adaptable and resilient,



with the ability to manage changing priorities and transaction timelines
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining focus on broader strategic and commercial objectives
- Client-focused with a commitment to delivering practical, timely and high-quality legal support
- Sound decision-maker who remains calm and effective when managing complex or time-critical transactions
- Results-oriented with a strong focus on execution, responsiveness and stakeholder service excellence

Requirements:

- Current Australian practising certificate
- Right to live and work in Australia

About Reach

Reach is the adaptable legal resourcing platform of Ashurst Perkins Coie, a global law firm with more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices. Sitting within Advance, the firm's NewLaw division, we place lawyers and professionals where they're needed most - whether our clients need to meet a surge in demand, cover leave, bridge a recruitment gap, or bring in specialist expertise.

Why join Reach?

Reach gives you the flexibility to build a career that fits your life - not the other way around. We work with talented consultants across a broad range of specialties, matching the right people with the right opportunities.

Here's what you can expect as a Reach consultant:

- Flexibility and choice - control over how, when, and where you work, on terms that suit your life.
- A genuine partnership - a dedicated Reach team who will get to know you and actively champion your career goals.
- The backing of a global firm - the resources, reputation, and culture of Ashurst Perkins Coie, including access to clients doing market-leading work and a refreshingly open and inclusive community.

Interested?

Ready to find out more? Apply now or get in touch with Adam Saunders, our Talent Solutions Advisor, at

📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Banking & Finance Lawyer | Melbourne
🏢 Ashurst
📍 Melbourne