The Opportunity
Join a leading financial services organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.
- Duration: 3-6 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Melbourne
About You
You are a seasoned financial services regulatory lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations.
Your Experience & Expertise:
- Experience working in an in-house legal, compliance, risk or regulatory function, ideally within financial services
- Demonstrated experience assessing regulatory incidents, compliance issues or potential breaches against applicable legal and compliance obligations
- Experience drafting breach reports, compliance notices, regulatory notifications or incident reports for regulators such as ASIC or APRA
- Strong understanding of financial services regulatory obligations, particularly in relation to breach reporting, incident assessment and compliance frameworks
- Familiarity with superannuation, insurance, wealth management, investment funds or financial advice businesses would be highly advantageous
- Experience working with external or related stakeholders, such as insurance brokers, superannuation trustees, responsible entities and financial advisory businesses
- Ability to manage overflow incident assessment work during periods of increased reporting or system transition activity
Your Skills & Attributes:
- Strong regulatory judgement and the ability to assess whether incidents may constitute breaches of compliance obligations
- Strong drafting skills, including the ability to prepare clear incident reports, breach reports, compliance notices and regulator-facing correspondence
- Sound knowledge of financial services compliance and regulatory risk principles
- Ability to work efficiently through a high volume of incident assessments or overflow matters
- Confidence liaising with internal business teams, legal, compliance, risk and senior stakeholders
Requirements:
- Current Australian practising certificate
- 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 Adam Saunders, our Talent Solutions Advisor, at [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.
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