Senior Banking Lawyer / Banking Lawyer

Join a purpose-led mutual bank making a real difference to its members

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Banking Lawyer or Senior Banking Lawyer to join a collaborative and high-performing legal team. Reporting into senior legal leadership, you will provide trusted legal and regulatory advice across the Bank, helping to manage legal risk, navigate regulatory obligations, and support strategic business initiatives.

This is a broad in-house role offering exposure to retail banking, consumer lending, regulatory engagement, incident management, product development, and governance matters.

About the Role

As a key legal adviser to the business, you will provide pragmatic and commercially focused advice on a wide range of banking and regulatory matters.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Advising on regulatory and legal issues impacting the Bank's products, operations and strategic initiatives

- Identifying and mitigating legal and regulatory risks across consumer lending and financial products

- Reviewing incidents and advising on breach reporting obligations and regulatory notifications

- Managing disputes and legal proceedings with external legal counsel where required

- Reviewing product terms, disclosure documents, customer communications and marketing collateral

- Assisting with regulator engagement, breach reporting and incident updates

- Supporting business stakeholders with practical legal guidance that enables effective decision-making

- Managing relationships with external law firms and controlling legal spend

About You





To be successful in this role, you will bring:

Essential

- An unrestricted Australian practising certificate, or eligibility to obtain one

- Minimum 5 years' post-qualification experience

- Strong retail banking legal experience

- Excellent knowledge of banking regulation and consumer finance law

- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to provide commercially sound and pragmatic legal advice to non-legal stakeholders

- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities

Highly Regarded

- Experience gained within a bank, financial institution or leading law firm

- Experience advising on breach reporting obligations under the Corporations Act and NCCP Act

- Experience engaging directly with ASIC, APRA or other financial services regulators

- Knowledge of consumer lending, deposit products and broader retail banking operations

What's on Offer

- Opportunity to work across a broad range of high-profile legal and regulatory matters

- Exposure to executive and senior leadership stakeholders

- Collaborative and supportive team environment

- Versatile hybrid working arrangements

- Strong organisational culture with a member-first focus

- Opportunity to influence strategic business decisions while protecting and strengthening the Bank's regulatory framework

If you are a commercially minded banking lawyer looking to build your career within a values-driven financial institution, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or contact us for a confidential discussion.

📌 Senior Banking Lawyer (Sydney)
🏢 Hays
📍 Sydney