About Us

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 customers. Our Institutional bank helps our largest customers move trade and capital around the region, providing our people with great opportunities to build their technical expertise and their careers.

About the Role

As a Senior Lawyer in our Legal Team, you’ll provide quality, timely, commercially relevant and cost effective legal advice to ANZ’s business, to support the growth initiatives of the business, while at the same time managing legal risk.  

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 Type: Permanent, Full-time
Role Location: Ho Chi Minh City

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Lawyer, you will:

• Ensure internal processes, policies and procedures, including relating to risk management, knowledge sharing, document simplification and training, are complied with and (where possible) improved.

• Knowledge and awareness of all policies and procedures relating to risk and compliance that incumbent is required to comply with.

• Anticipate commercial impact to our business areas of law reform proposals; manage legal risk in business context and in disputes; educate business in regulatory/legislative impacts.

• Build a robust and healthy risk culture within business and work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Risk & Compliance, especially to manage conduct risk and to pro-actively encourage good behaviour.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Tertiary qualification (law degree minimum) and current practicing certificate, with at least 7 years post admission experience.

• Strong experience in banking and finance and corporate and commercial law, including exposure to and experience with financial markets products, documentation, transactions, and corporate governance.

• A good working knowledge of, and experience with, the laws of Vietnam and other major Asian jurisdictions. Ideally this experience will have been obtained while working in a law firm, and in a major financial institution located in Vietnam.

• Demonstrated ability to work under remote legal supervision, and to provide commercial solutions-based legal services, while maintaining robust independence of legal advice.

• Demonstrated experience in provision of advice and proactive influence of outcomes.

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills and Strong team player.

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.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and 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 support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch 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 health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 87931.

Job Posting End Date

03/03/2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)