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 millions of customers. 

About the Role

Join our specialist Privacy & Data Legal team dedicated to supporting ANZ’s privacy, data, AI, cybersecurity, partnerships and intellectual property strategies and objectives globally. 

As a Senior Lawyer, Privacy & Data, you are to provide quality, astute and timely legal advice to ANZ clients with a commercial, efficiency and innovative mindset. 

Your advice will relate to a full range of data, privacy, automation, artificial intelligence and innovation matters including, for example: privacy compliance, contract drafting for data sharing with ANZ’s partners and Institutional customers, and international data sharing. Your work will involve structuring foundational documentation to mitigate privacy and data risks to ensure compliance with relevant privacy laws and regulations and support other lawyers to upskill their knowledge of privacy and data matters in connection with partnerships. 

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:  Melbourne or Sydney 
 

What will your day look like?

You will experience a variety of challenging work, including cutting edge projects for financial services’ partnerships and data-based collaboration. You will frequently partner with other enablement functions including other parts of the Legal Team, Privacy Risk and other risk colleagues, Partnerships, Institutional, Procurement, Compliance, Finance, Technology and Tax to provide privacy and data-related legal advice and negotiate compliant agreements with ANZ’s data and innovation partners and customers. 

The Privacy & Data Legal Team performs as a “centre of excellence” to support matters that have an ANZ-wide impact. While much of the work is Australia based, ANZ operates in multiple jurisdictions and has operating entities all around the world. The Privacy & Data Legal Team assists with matters globally and your work will reflect this. 

The regulatory environment that ANZ operates in is increasingly complex and you will be involved in regulatory and legislative reform processes including providing legal advice on privacy and data law reforms. You will be involved in supporting enablement functions leading implementation of compliant responses to such new and changing regulations.  

You will also need to instruct and manage external law firms who provide additional assistance from time to time. 
 

What will you bring?

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

• Have more than 10 years Post Qualification Experience in privacy and data law. 
• Have experience in some, if not all, of the relevant specialties – knowledge of privacy, technology, contracting, intellectual property and data sharing requirements. 
• Be excellent at time management with a demonstrated track record of managing challenging workloads (so be comfortable prioritising your work with your manager’s support). 
• Strength as a trusted adviser, capable of initiating, building and maintaining effective relationships across a range of disciplines and situations.  
• Be a practical, problem solver who can articulate legal risks clearly and concisely. 
• Be comfortable with ambiguity in areas of developing law such as privacy and data. 

Some additional skills for this role which will be viewed favourably include: 

• Be strong at relationship building. 
• Be a practical, problem solver who can articulate legal risks clearly and concisely. 
• Be comfortable with ambiguity in areas of developing law. 
• Have outstanding drafting and negotiation skills. 
• Have a growth mindset and be delivery focused. 

 
You’re not expected to have all 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're a candidate with a disability or access requirement, and have an enquiry about the support provided, please let us know on your application or visit ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Programs for alternate contact methods.

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 91311 .
 

Job Posting End Date

04/04/2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)