Westpac Group
Senior Lawyer
North Sydney, 2060, Sydney, New South Wales
Full time
Posted 01/05/2025
Closed 15/05/2025
Sydney or Melbourne Location
What’s the role?
The CIB Legal team is a collegiate corporate legal team providing high quality advice to Westpac Institutional Bank (“WIB”), a Division of Westpac Group. Through the partnership with key internal and external stakeholders this role will support the Westpac Group’s legal and risk strategy by influencing, negotiating and consulting. Our legal advice is accurate, timely, cost effective and commercial.
You will provide legal advice and support to WIB’s Corporate & Institutional Banking (“CIB”) Line of Business. Your primary focus will be on the Specialised Finance products in CIB, but the demands of the business (and CIB Legal’s response to that demand) may require you to support other CIB legal areas, including lending to specified industry sectors. These businesses provide finance solutions for Westpac’s institutional banking clients, including Australia’s largest corporates, financial institutions and Governments.
Key responsibilities in this role will require you to:
- independently advise, draft documents and assist in negotiation of transactions in compliance with laws, policies and requirements;
- ensure external legal resources are properly and efficiently selected and used
- provide insight to CIB business partners on and guide implementation of external advice.
- ensure outputs produced by external counsel complies with our policies and requirements;
- partner with the CIB business in maintaining awareness of relevant regulatory requirements;
- work closely with other CIB Legal lawyers, Financial Markets (FM) Legal Global Transaction Solutions (GTS) Legal and Westpac’s wider Legal & Secretariat function and other stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes.
What do I need?
We’d expect you to have extensive and proven legal experience in a law firm or financial services organisation (5+ years PQE) across institutional lending, ideally across a range of sectors and with demonstrated expertise and competence. Experience in securitisation and structured finance will be most relevant, but experience in trade finance, project finance, acquisition finance or asset would also be beneficial. You’ll have a growth mindset and a willingness to learn about other areas within the Bank. You will be proactive and well versed in understanding how businesses operate and applying your legal expertise and commercial judgement.
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
- Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website .