Senior Legal Counsel, Institutional

**Req ID**: 83656
**Department**: Legal New Zealand Counsel
**Division**: Legal & Corporate Governance
**Location**: Auckland or Wellington
Ko Mātou - About Us
Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.
Mō te tūranga - About the role
Our team of trusted legal specialists work with teams across ANZ New Zealand, providing guidance on personal, business and institutional banking; our funds management business; operations; regulation; and finance.
Our lawyers help our business interpret laws and regulation relevant to ANZ New Zealand, and make sure our customers can understand their banking in plain English.
As a Senior Legal Counsel in ANZ Legal’s team, you’ll play a key role in providing comprehensive legal advice, support, and services to the ANZ Institutional function. This includes areas such as Loans & Markets Execution, Loan Syndications and Agency, Corporate Finance, Institutional Relationships, and Debt Capital Markets. You will be responsible for mitigating legal risks, ensuring robust governance, and directly contributing to the delivery of strategic business objectives.
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.
**Role Location**: Auckland or Wellington
**Role Type**: Permanent, Full time
Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like?
**As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will**:
Deliver legal services to the Institutional business leveraging a range of internal and external resources
Provide high-quality, commercially appropriate, timely, and cost-effective legal services and risk assessments to ANZ Institutional
Ensure that legal expenditures are reasonable and appropriately incurred
Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with key internal stakeholders including the ANZ legal team, ANZ Institutional business and the Business Governance, Risk and Tax teams
Build and sustain strong relationships with external stakeholders, ensuring that the interests of ANZ Institutional and its customers are well-represented
Offer clear, concise legal advice in plain language, providing straightforward and pragmatic guidance to ANZ Institutional
Provide high quality legal and corporate governance advice that mitigates the legal risks, ensures appropriate governance and contributes to the delivery of strategic business goals
Support Institutional to understand and work within the legal environment through developing procedures and facilitating training
Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
A growth-mindset with a desire to continue learning in evolving areas of law and innovation and simplification of the financial services industry
Extensive knowledge of relevant financial services laws and regulation, syndicated lending and/or debt capital markets law and practice, and general corporate law
Working knowledge of competition law relevant in the syndication, agency and debt capital markets context would be beneficial
Proven experience working in a senior legal position across a risk or markets environment
Sound ability to assess legal risks and provide commercially appropriate legal advice and risk assessments
Superior interpersonal and communication skills to deliver clear, concise legal advice
Proven ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with various stakeholders, including internal and external partners
Proven problem-solving ability and ability to advocate and influence
Strong negotiation skills
Sound ability to manage competing priorities, legal expenditures and ensure cost-effective legal services
Capability to develop procedures and facilitate training to help the ANZ Institutional team understand and navigate the legal environment
You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.
He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?
From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.
But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.
We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from