Senior Associate / Special Counsel - Financial Services

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Senior Associate/Special Counsel in Financial Services in Melbourne. The role involves advising on governance, prudential regulation, and risk advisory in banking and insurance sectors. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work in teams. The firm promotes flexible and hybrid work options but is primarily based in-office.
Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the worlds pre-eminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4000 lawyers operating from 58 offices worldwide in Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, the Americas and Central Asia.

Our global financial services and regulation practice helps our clients navigate the evolving and increasingly complex regulatory environment, working seamlessly across major business and financial hubs.Structured around core regulatory strengths - governance, conduct and markets - our team is well-known for its advisory and transactional work with the largest financial markets participants on both the wholesale and retail side, including banks, superannuation and pension funds, asset and wealth managers, brokers, market infrastructure players, commodities firms, and FinTechs

We are currently looking for a Senior Associate / Special Counsel to join our Financial Services practice, based in Melbourne. Working with highly experienced financial services Partner Lucinda McCann you will work on a variety of matters covering:
• Front end advisory work, with an emphasis on governance, prudential regulation and conduct regulation in the banking, superannuation and insurance sectors
• Advising on domestic and off-shore investments for superannuation trustees
• Strategic regulatory engagement and risk advisory, covering regulatory approvals and regulatory response and investigations, enforcement and remediation in the superannuation, insurance and banking sectors
• Board and governance arrangements
• Business establishment and product development including licensing, product distribution and disclosure
• Corporate (fund and other regulated mergers and consolidation)

Requirements
• 5+ years PQE
• Excellent analytical, technical and drafting skills
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
• An interest in working in cross-border matters
• Practice growth and teamwork mindset

We are proud that Norton Rose Fulbright in Australia has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as well as a gold tier employer for LGBTI Inclusion through the Australian Workplace Equality Index. In 2023 we were re-accredited as a Family Inclusive Workplace and always encourage people to discuss flexible and hybrid work options with us.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.

To apply online click the 'Apply' button below. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process or if the application portal is inaccessible to you, please don't hesitate to contact Scott Baker via (02) 9330 8578 or scott.baker@nortonrosefulbright.com for a confidential discussion .

If you are trans or gender diverse and would like a confidential discussion before applying, please contact Yvette Borradale (03) 8686 6003 or Scott Baker (02) 9330 8578.