Senior Solicitor

9 hours ago


Wellington City, New Zealand FNZ Full time

We are looking for an exceptional commercially focused Senior lawyer to work within our NZ legal team and support the growth of our business. The role covers a variety of legal matters across multiple business areas but focusses particularly on FNZ’s client and supplier contracts. As such there is a significant contract review, analysis and drafting component to this position.

Key responsibilities include:

- Negotiating and drafting client and supplier contracts
- Managing and monitoring relationships with external legal advisors
- Contract analysis and reporting
- Monitoring and reporting on legal developments and how they might affect FNZ
- Contract management
- Managing disputes
- Supporting strategic projects and M&A activity
- Producing MI for internal business reporting/tracking
- Reviewing company activities related to APAC legal matters, identifying potential litigation issues and acting to address or mitigate these
- Focus on legal risk management

The role and environment requires someone who has high integrity, high curiosity, commercialism, strong judgement and the ability to operate in complexity and at pace.

About FNZ

FNZ is a global FinTech firm, transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. We partner with banks, insurers and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation and asset servicing.

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