The Opportunity

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

- Duration: 8 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Melbourne

About You

You are an experienced financial services 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:

- Demonstrated experience advising on derivatives transactions, including OTC derivatives, trading documentation and associated regulatory frameworks
- Strong experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating derivatives documentation, including ISDA Master Agreements, Credit Support documentation, confirmations and related transactional agreements
- Proven ability to manage complex derivatives projects and negotiations from inception through to execution
- Robust understanding of financial markets, risk management principles and the legal and regulatory environment applicable to derivatives trading
- Experience providing strategic legal advice to trading, risk, compliance and business stakeholders on derivatives and financial products matters
- Ability to identify, assess and manage legal, regulatory and commercial risks associated with derivatives transactions and trading activities
- Strong transactional management skills, with the ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment
- Experience supporting financial services, banking, trading or investment businesses on a broad range of commercial and regulatory matters
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging with senior business leaders, trading teams, risk functions and external counterparties
- In-house derivatives, trading, banking or financial services experience would be highly regarded

Attributes:





- Able to hit the ground running and quickly become an effective contributor within a high-performing legal team
- Strong commercial judgement with the ability to balance legal risk against business and trading objectives
- Confident dealing with complex, challenging or highly demanding stakeholders
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to achieve practical and commercially sound outcomes
- Pragmatic and solutions-focused with a commitment to delivering timely and commercially relevant advice
- Adaptable and versatile, with the ability to respond quickly to changing priorities and transaction demands
- Proactive and accountable, taking ownership of matters and driving them through to completion

Requirements:

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

About Reach

Reach is the flexible 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 Fiona Craig, our Senior Talent Manager, at

📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Financial Services - Derivatives Lawyer | Melbourne
🏢 Ashurst
📍 Melbourne