Tax & Legal Risk and Quality | Director | Legal

There’s real expertise in helping organisations navigate complex legal, regulatory, and professional obligations —it starts with people who can combine sound judgement, technical expertise, and practical advice.

As a Tax & Legal Risk and Quality Director at PwC, you’ll bring your legal qualifications and experience, risk and compliance expertise or interest, stakeholder management skills, and deep understanding of legal professional regulatory requirements to help the firm and legal and tax practitioners navigate risk, quality and compliance obligations.

You will be based in Sydney / Gadigal (Eora Nation), Brisbane / Meanjin (Turrbal and Jagera Country), Melbourne / Naarm (Wurundjeri Country of the Kulin Nation) or Perth / Boorloo (Whadjuk Country of the Noongar Nation). Working closely with internal teams and leadership, you’ll support the delivery of high-quality client engagements while helping ensure regulatory compliance, effective risk management, and sustainable business practices.

Why PwC?

At PwC Australia, your skills meet purpose. We tackle big challenges across industries like finance, technology, energy, and health - giving you the chance to make a real impact. Here, your growth is our priority. You’ll work with leading teams, explore new technologies, and unlock your full potential.

Join a global community of more than 370,000 people who value bold ideas, collaboration, and lasting change. Together, we’re building trust and shaping the future.

What you’ll do:

- Be responsible for and report directly to the Tax & Legal Risk & Quality Leadership on PwC’s compliance with legal regulatory obligations as a multidisciplinary legal practice.



This includes participation in relevant professional limitation of liability schemes and liaising with the relevant law societies and professional associations.
- Be responsible for ensuring that multidisciplinary engagements are established and operate in accordance with PwC policy and regulatory requirements.
- Review and advise on engagement contracts and other agreements to be entered into between the tax and legal practice and external clients including working with the Office of General Counsel (OGC) where required.
- Develop and present reputation and risk management training programs and communications including on legal professional obligations.
- Proactively identify and manage new and common risks within the PwC risk appetite including responsible use of AI.
- Liaise with other internal firm services (e.g. OGC, Compliance, Independence, Markets, AML/KYC) to deliver projects, resolve complex issues, identify new and emerging risks and provide cohesive advice to client facing tax and legal teams.
- Develop tools, templates and facilities to enable client facing tax and legal teams to work efficiently and effectively to deliver client engagements while maintaining compliance with reputation and risk management policies.
- Support the client facing tax and legal teams in relation to day-to-day quality and risk related queries.
- Build and lead high-performing teams,



mentoring and developing Senior Managers, Managers, and/or Consultants while playing a pivotal role in talent and capability building of PwC's Tax & Legal Risk & Quality Team and client facing teams.

What we’re looking for:

Core skills

- Legal qualifications and experience are required (admitted but a current practicing certificate is not required).
- At least 7-10 years post qualification experience.
- You have robust stakeholder management skills. You will be required to deal directly with leadership and partners. You will also be required to liaise with various parts of the business, manage expectations and deliver outcomes to client facing teams within the bounds of firm policy and regulation
- Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to articulate a problem clearly, obtain and understand relevant viewpoints and convert into meaningful advice
- Experience or a keen interest in internal Risk & Quality within a professional services firm or law practice.
- Strong analytical and research skills and appetite for problem solving in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and solid leadership and coaching experience.
- Self-motivated, and have the ability to work autonomously, agile and comfortable working in a flexible environment.
- Ability to build strong, trust based relationships and influence with impact.
- Confidence to work and communicate with people at all levels of seniority as well as external stakeholders.
- Capability to deliver tangible commercial outcomes in a fast paced environment.
- Confidence to learn and utilise internal systems and are competent in the use

📌 Tax & Legal Risk and Quality | Director | Legal (Melbourne)
🏢 Pwc
📍 Melbourne