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About the Role
This role provides high-quality legal support to CMC Markets' CFD and Stockbroking businesses in Australia and New Zealand. It offers the opportunity to work on business-critical initiatives, provide pragmatic legal advice, manage risk, and protect the company's reputation. The role also involves leading, mentoring, and supporting legal team members.
Responsibilities
- Report to and maintain a close working relationship with the Head of Legal, ANZ, acting as a trusted adviser and key support across a broad range of legal, regulatory and commercial matters.
- Demonstrate strong judgement and initiative in identifying and addressing issues, driving matters through to resolution, and applying a pragmatic, forward-thinking approach to problem-solving.
- Ensure effective communication and timely escalation of key risks and issues to support sound decision-making.
- Lead and develop legal professionals, including supervising legal work, mentoring and coaching team members, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
- Effectively leverage and coordinate legal resources to deliver high-quality outcomes and support the wider APAC Senior Management team in achieving the region's objectives.
- Utilize strong stakeholder management skills to build trusted relationships, influence decision-making, and navigate competing priorities across all levels of the organisation.
- Engage external legal firms.
- Provide strong legal skills in general commercial contract review and complex negotiation.
- Advise on a range of matters including operational and product related transactions in regulated financial services, transactions and M&A, regulatory compliance, disputes and data privacy.
- Draft retail client financial product disclosures and terms and conditions.
- Demonstrate awareness of corporate governance and risk management principles, with the judgement to navigate complex issues, support robust decision-making and ensure matters are managed through appropriate governance channels.
- Communicate legal advice clearly and effectively to a range of audiences, including APAC Senior Management.
- Provide training and support to staff on legal issues as required.
- Provide legal input into Global or APAC policies and procedures.
- Provide legal advice to other areas of the business including marketing, HR and IT.
- Maintain personal/professional development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training.
- Provide a clear, fair, and consistent high-quality service to customers, clients, and colleagues.
- Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
- Undertake other duties, training, and hours of work as may be reasonably required and consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role.
- Read and comply with CMC policies and procedures.
- Complete all mandatory compliance training.
Requirements
- Practising solicitor with an unrestricted licence at least 10 PQE.
- A mix of solid in-house and private practice experience.
- Experience in and knowledge of the Corporations Act and other equivalent legislation.
- Current Practising Certificate (or eligible to hold a Practising Certificate).
Skills
- Strong technical legal expertise within financial services
- Sound commercial judgement
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills
- Confidence to navigate complex and evolving business challenges
- Ability to build effective relationships across the organisation
- Ability to influence outcomes at all levels
- Experience in regulated financial services industries including derivative products, securities trading and wealth (desirable)
- General commercial contract review
- Complex negotiation
- Drafting expertise in retail client financial product disclosures and terms and conditions
- Awareness of corporate governance and risk management principles
- Strong and clear communicator of legal advice
- Experience in engagement of external legal firms
- CFD and/or stockbroking product knowledge (desirable)
- Experience of the Australian or New Zealand financial services industry (desirable)
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ PQE
Education Level
- Practising solicitor with an unrestricted licence
About the Company
- CMC Markets is a global online investment firm that provides online trading in over 12,000 financial products, including shares, indices, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, commodities, and options.