Senior Lawyer Sydney, Nsw, Australia Posted On 05/09/2024 Be The First To Apply

• Permanent. Full time/ part time for right candidate
• Hybrid working environment, 2 days in office

How will I help?

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced financial services lawyer to join our high-performing Global Transaction Services (GTS) Legal team. This role reports directly to the Practice Group Head for GTS Legal and provides support to the GTS business within the Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB).

The GTS business at Westpac provides transactional banking and payments solutions and support for a diverse range of clients, including large corporates, governments and SME customers. GTS also manages Westpac's participation in various payment networks and helps set the payments strategy for the group.

While GTS Legal forms part of the broader institutional bank Legal team, this role has a focus on payments and transactional banking as opposed to lending.

Key aspects of this role include:

• Providing expert legal advice across a broad range of topics including legal and regulatory obligations in the Corporations Act, ASIC Act, Banking Code of Practice, ePayments code, competition and privacy laws and payments industry rules and regulations
• Advising the GTS business on an evolving product portfolio including core account and liquidity management offerings and a wide variety of payables and receivables products
• Leading the legal input into key strategic projects and regulatory change projects
• Drafting and negotiating a wide range of customer agreements and product documentation
• Playing a key role in mentoring and developing other lawyers and paralegals in the GTS Legal team

What's in it for me?

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is of creating better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure.

Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do I need?

We want to hear from senior lawyers with 7+ years post-qualification experience who possess the following:

• Substantial private practice and/or in-house experience in financial services, advising on legal and regulatory requirements relevant to financial services
• Experience advising on large strategic projects and regulatory change projects
• Experience with contract drafting and negotiation
• Experience working in institutional banking will be highly regarded but is not required. This role would also suit a lawyer with significant retail banking experience who is looking for a new challenge.
• Experience in advising on the following will be highly regarded:
  
• Payments products or systems
• Data sharing and associated privacy risks
• Digital channels
• How evolving technologies might impact payments products, systems and players and the banking industry more broadly

What is it like to work there?

We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email.

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call Option 2.3 or email