Description The Opportunity

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

- Duration: Up to 2 years
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Sydney

About You You have experience in financial services remediation with a minimum of 6 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from roles within large organisations. This role will suit a project manager oin this space. Or someone with a legal background.

Your Experience and Expertise

- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale regulatory remediation or transformation programs within banking or prudentially regulated financial services
- Proven experience delivering complex multi-workstream remediation programs from design and mobilisation through implementation, embedding, validation and formal closure
- Strong knowledge of APRA regulatory and prudential expectations, including remediation arising from regulatory breaches or findings
- Experience translating root cause analysis, regulatory findings, audit issues and management commitments into structured remediation plans and executable workstreams
- Strong program and transformation management capability across governance, planning, critical path management, dependencies, risks, resources and change control
- Experience establishing program baselines, milestones, accountabilities, measurable outcomes, closure criteria and evidence requirements
- Strong understanding of risk management, compliance and control frameworks within banking and financial services
- Knowledge of Three Lines of Defence models, operational risk, governance, accountability and control effectiveness
- Experience with third-party risk management and remediation of third-party governance and control weaknesses
- Experience designing and implementing operating models, including governance structures, decision rights, RACIs, controls and business accountabilities
- Experience establishing and operating Steering Committee, Executive Committee and other senior governance forums
- Experience preparing concise executive and Board-level reporting on remediation progress, risks, dependencies,



delivery confidence and required decisions
- Experience managing independent validation and assurance processes for regulatory remediation programs
- Proven ability to transition remediation activities into sustainable business-as-usual ownership, controls and accountability
- Strong change management experience across policies, procedures, training, communications, capability, performance measures and management information
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across risk, compliance, legal, audit, technology, operations, HR and business functions
- Experience managing complex transformation programs within matrixed and cross-border environments
- Strong commercial and financial management experience, including program budgets, resource forecasting and expenditure oversight
- Experience managing major consulting and advisory engagements, including statements of work, deliverables, change requests and commercial controls
- Experience ensuring effective knowledge transfer and capability uplift from external advisers to internal teams

Attributes

- Solid strategic judgement with the ability to distinguish material regulatory and risk outcomes from program activity
- Highly developed risk awareness and understanding of prudential regulatory expectations
- Strong leadership capability with the ability to lead complex multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to communicate confidently with regulators, executives, senior risk leaders and assurance providers
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to distil complex matters into clear executive reporting
- Decisive and comfortable making recommendations on complex and high-risk matters




- Evidence-led and disciplined in documenting decisions, outcomes and closure readiness
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams and competing priorities
- Comfortable operating in complex, highly regulated and high-profile environments
- Collaborative and capable of building alignment across business, risk, compliance, audit and corporate functions
- Pragmatic and outcomes focused with the ability to balance regulatory, risk and business priorities
- Culturally aware and effective when working across regional, cross-border and matrixed environments

Requirements

- Current Australian practising certificate or relevant qualifications
- 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 [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.

📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Financial Services - Remediation Program Manager | Syd (Sydney)
🏢 Ashurst Perkins Coie
📍 Sydney