Senior Legal Counsel

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you’ve likely heard of AMP. But at a time when society is changing, we are too. We’re now a nimbler business with new leadership and thinking.

For us, these are exciting times. There’s a real potential for big thinkers to help us redefine what financial services could be and turn our legacy into something even more positive and powerful for the future.

Help people create their tomorrow, while you create yours

We help people with their banking, super, retirement and finances. Through upturns, downturns, recessions, and major life transitions. Every day, we help people see and make more of their financial potential, so that they can create their tomorrow. And we’ve been doing it for over 170 years.

If we do our job well, we genuinely add to the prosperity of our country and its people.

Purpose of the role:

The Senior Legal Counsel role plays a critical part in ensuring AMP Bank operates within its defined risk appetite and regulatory obligations. By combining legal expertise with commercial insight, the role supports informed decision-making that enables the Bank to operate safely while delivering value to customers.

As part of AMP’s Legal team, this role contributes to a collaborative, outcomes-driven environment by being both embedded in the business and independently minded.

Success is achieved through proactive integration with AMP Bank teams, ensuring legal advice is practical, executable and aligned with the strategic direction of the digital bank. At the same time, the role maintains constructive independence leveraging excellent relationships to provide thoughtful challenge and ensuring legal considerations are embedded in business decisions.

How will you make an impact

Providing advice on legal advice and support to senior management and business areas relevant to ADIs, banking and bank products
Helping align desired business outcomes with regulatory obligations in a complex and evolving environment
Supporting changes in banking products and maintaining existing products
Working across teams to ensure legal considerations are integrated into business decisions, including the design and delivery of new products
Helping design digital onboarding journeys.
Drafting customer communications, TMDs and terms and conditions
Monitors and stays up to date with applicable laws and obligations.
What you will bring to the role

Previous experience working in a heavily regulated industry, ideally in banking services
Ideally at least 8 years post qualified experience gained in private practice and/or in house
In depth understanding of the obligations applicable to ADIs and related risks
We are seeking a proactive and adaptable professional with excellent stakeholder engagement skills and emotional We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel with excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, capable of navigating a dynamic and fast-paced environment. The role requires someone who consistently applies sound judgment in day-to-day decision-making, driving customer-focused solutions while maintaining a clear understanding of business priorities.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate an exceptional ability to analyse complex problems and identify practical solutions that enhance ways of working. Exceptional communication skills across written, verbal, virtual and face-to-face channels are essential, along with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders. A curious and inquisitive mindset, combined with agility and adaptability, will be key to thriving in this role.

You’ll thrive here if…

If you can adapt from BAU to the ambiguous with ease, you’ll do well here. Change is never easy, so bring your commitment, grit and growth mindset.

Because we run lean, you’ll be expected to jump in and deliver across a variety of areas. Meaning, you’ll be closer to the action and executive decisions that influence where we go next.

If you’re someone that can hold their own, you’ll find AMP quite liberating.

Why we think you’ll love working at AMP

Doing what we’ve always done is not an option, so your clever ideas will get airtime here. You’ll be encouraged to speak up and try new things. If they don’t work, we move on – better for it.

We know there’s no one way of doing things. So, you won’t have to sacrifice who you are or how you work to fit in here. We’re inclusive and flexible in many of the ways you’d expect. And in some of the ways you wouldn’t. As long as your health and wellbeing come first - at home and at work.

In fact, most of what makes AMP such a welcoming, enjoyable place to work are our people. Wherever you go, you’ll find moments to connect, feel valued and do meaningful work.

Whether it’s through our first-class leaders who are invested in you and your success. Through year-round opportunities to volunteer, fundraise and give back to the community. Or in the everyday challenges you face as we work together to strengthen this great organisation. Challenges that will stretch you, amplify your potential and compound the impact you have.

We believe in the power of inclusion and diversity

We’re dedicated to fostering inclusion, diversity, and a warm feeling of belonging at AMP. It sparks creativity, ignites innovation, and turns up the dial on the quality of our decisions and performance. This not only makes our workplace more engaged but also leads to better connections with our customers.

We're your allies in the search for the perfect fit - when you apply, let us know how we can support you to put your best self forward during our selection process.

We're also committed to enhancing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, so we enthusiastically encourage candidates from these backgrounds to apply and explore our Reconciliation Action Plan on our website.

Ready to create your tomorrow?

If you’re someone who sees opportunity where others see challenge, come and work with us in smart, progressive ways as we transform an iconic Australian brand for the future. And, through a series of career-defining moments, create your own tomorrow.

Don’t procrastinate! We review applications when we get them, and if we discover the ideal candidate, we may close the role earlier than the advertised close date.

Looking forward to meeting you.

 

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