Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate & Treasury Legal

Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate & Treasury Legal Team

If you are an experienced corporate lawyer looking to join a leading in-house team and lead workstreams on a long-term regulatory project, this might be your next career opportunity.

We are seeking a senior corporate lawyer join the Corporate & Treasury legal team, a high performing team that advises on a range of corporate matters across the Bank’s operations.  This role will have primary carriage of the team’s contribution to the planning and implementation of the CPS900 Resolution Planning program, a large-scale prudential reform program, as well as work on other corporate advisory matters from as capacity permits.

This role presents a unique opportunity to work on a significant group-wide program, understand the CBA Group’s operations and make a lasting impact.  

Success in this role means being a trusted adviser on complex matters and managing multiple stakeholders to get things done collaboratively.

Do work that matters:

The role will include:

• Priority to the Resolution Planning Program, covering:
  • Support across all project workstreams, including legal project management and coordinating with business units, APRA and industry;
  • Advising on interpretation and application of APRA prudential standards and related APRA guidance in a large, complex financial institution;
  • Leading engagement and management of external legal advice on both domestic and foreign law issues;
  • Contract analysis and remediation; and
  • Managing competing priorities and regulatory timelines while maintaining high‑quality legal outcomes.
  • Corporate & Treasury legal support, including: corporate advisory, including supporting corporate reporting, disclosure, governance and insurance matters;
  • supporting private and public M&A transactions;
  • drafting and advising on commercial contracts;
  • ad-hoc advice and support for matters managed by the Corporate & Treasury team.

See yourself in our team:

You will be a valued member of the Corporate & Treasury Legal team. This team provides trusted strategic advice to our internal clients to support and enhance CBA’s purpose and success.

The Resolution Planning Program involves working closely with Resolution Planning team, the Technology legal lead for Resolution Planning, Treasury, Group Regulatory Affairs and other business units across the Group, including dedicated project team members from those teams.

This role would suit a lawyer who brings:

• 6+ years relevant post-admission experience in a top-tier Australian or international firm or large in-house team;
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • financial services regulation, hybrid securities or wholesale debt transactions or APRA’s prudential and capital framework;
  • corporate advisory, contract advisory (including technology, outsourcing or commercial contracts) or complex contract remediation; and/or
  • large regulatory change programs.  
• Demonstrated ability to lead legal workstreams within multi‑disciplinary projects;
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence engaging with senior leaders;
• An organised and pragmatic approach to get things done; and
• A team-oriented outlook, a “can do” attitude, integrity and sound judgment.

If you are ready to step into a trusted adviser role in-house and develop deep expertise in regulatory change, we’d love to hear from you!

At CommBank, we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive and respectful workplace. If you require support or adjustments, please let us know. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and we're particularly committed to making a positive difference for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For support please contact 1800 989 696.