Description The Opportunity
Join a leading organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.
- Duration: 3-6 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Sydney
About You You are an experienced compliance lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' experience, bringing a robust track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations.
Your Experience and Expertise
- Experience triaging incidents, non-compliance events, regulatory breaches and privacy breaches within a regulated environment
- Strong understanding of breach identification, assessment and escalation frameworks
- Knowledge of obligations under the Corporations Act and broader Australian financial services regulatory framework
- Experience assessing reportable situations and determining whether matters meet regulatory notification thresholds
- Ability to investigate incidents and gather information from business stakeholders to support breach assessments
- Understanding of core obligations applicable to financial services and credit providers
- Knowledge of consumer credit legislation, including credit application breaches and National Credit Code breaches
- Experience preparing or supporting regulatory notifications to ASIC and other regulators
- Ability to analyse complex issues, assess risk and determine appropriate review pathways
- Experience interpreting regulatory requirements and applying them to operational incidents and business practices
- Experience managing high volumes of incidents while maintaining attention to detail and regulatory accuracy
- Understanding of risk, compliance and governance frameworks within banking or financial services
- Exposure to prudential regulation and APRA requirements highly regarded
- Experience within financial services, banking, credit, risk or compliance functions preferred
- Ability to prepare clear and concise documentation, risk assessments and recommendations for internal and regulatory audiences
Attributes
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Sound judgement and decision-making capability
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Curious and investigative approach to problem solving
- Confident communicator who can engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders
- Resilient and able to perform in a high-volume, fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team
- Commercially minded with a practical approach to risk management
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and incomplete information
- Adaptable and responsive to changing regulatory and business requirements
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 Adam Saunders, our Talent Solutions Advisor, at
[email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.
📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Compliance lawyers | Sydney
🏢 Ashurst Perkins Coie
📍 Sydney