Senior Legal Counsel, Regulatory Legal

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The Legal and Group Secretariat team provides expert advice and assistance to the Group to achieve its strategic goals and priorities, including by identifying and appropriately managing legal and regulatory risks. 

The Regulatory Legal team provides strategic legal advice on significant regulatory and enforcement matters with ASIC, APRA and other regulators, including leading the Group’s responses to regulators on enforcement investigations and regulatory legal proceedings.

Do work that matters

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will advise on and take carriage of regulatory responses on significant regulatory matters. You will lead the legal analysis of issues arising from regulatory responses and advise on appropriate steps including risk mitigation. You will also:

• Manage regulatory litigation where enforcement proceedings are commenced, including review of all court documentation, evidence and preparation for legal proceedings
• Manage external legal engagement on regulatory responses and regulatory legal proceedings
• Support significant regulatory supervision projects such as onsite regulatory monitoring
• Lead effective and thoughtful engagement with key stakeholders across the Group to provide proactive insights on regulatory enforcement and build awareness of regulatory risks 
• Assist with Regulatory Legal reporting on relevant matters including internal reporting, due diligence queries and identifying emerging risks
• Assist in co-ordinating and briefing independent legal representatives for relevant matters
• Where opportunities arise, lead, mentor and develop the team’s Legal Counsel/ Legal Associates
• Provide effective service delivery for significant regulatory responses through continuous improvement on planning, process design, communication and reporting

We’re interested in hearing from people who have

• 10+ years relevant post admission experience
• Tertiary qualifications in Law and admitted to practice in NSW or another State or Territory
• Deep experience and demonstrated capability as a senior lawyer within financial services industry, or as a commercial/regulatory litigator
• Strong legal, regulatory and/or litigation experience, knowledge of risk management practices and customer remediation
• Substantial knowledge and demonstrated experience in leading responses to complex regulatory and legal investigations and proceedings, and regulatory engagement across a large organisation
• Strong analytical, execution and influencing skills with the ability to build lasting relationships across large and varied stakeholder groups
• Inquisitive mindset with a bias to action around proactively identifying challenges and finding solutions
• Excellent organisational, communication and program management skills

If this sounds like your next career opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

Working at CommBank

At CommBank, we support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.

Advertising End Date: 24/02/2026