A new transformational adventure awaits you...
How does 5 weeks of annual leave, a fulfilling career you'll genuinely enjoy, and working for a reputable organization that promotes wellbeing and drives digital transformation sound to you?
As one of Forbes 2024 'World's Best Employers' and Fortune's 'World's Most Admired Companies' for 2025, Zurich - a leader in the insurance industry, is on a journey towards a brighter future... A brighter future for you - focused on your career, your wellbeing, and your community - as well as our customers and the planet.
Join us on this thrilling journey as we work towards our vision of becoming Australia's leading digital insurer. If you're eager to be part of a values-driven global organisation that's experiencing real growth and transformation, and if you share our commitment to making a tangible difference and taking continuous steps towards a sustainable future for our people, customers, communities, and our planet, then keep reading!
Let's create a brighter future together, let's make a difference
It's important to know, what you do matters. At Zurich, we don't just cover, we care.
As an Insurance Lawyer, you'll support our life insurance business by providing trusted legal, regulatory, and governance advice that helps protect our customers and strengthens our organisation. You'll sit within a collaborative in house legal team that partners closely with the business as we modernise, simplify, and evolve how we operate.
Your work will help shape compliant, customer centred solutions, guide decision making across the organisation, and ensure we continue to deliver high quality outcomes as we move toward a more digitally enabled future.
You will also be responsible for the following:
* Providing clear, commercial legal advice that supports business decisions and strategic initiatives.
* Identifying legal, governance, and regulatory risks and guiding the business on how to navigate them.
* Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial and insurance related agreements.
* Supporting teams with product development, disclosure requirements, and regulatory obligations.
* Contributing to process improvements within the Legal team to help us work smarter and more efficiently.
* Keeping the business updated on relevant legal and regulatory developments
Important to your success - let's grow together
You'll bring a thoughtful, solutions focused mindset and enjoy working with stakeholders in a calm, collaborative, and practical way. You're curious, engaged, and motivated by the opportunity to influence outcomes that genuinely matter.
In order to be successful, you will have the following:
* Recognised Australian legal qualifications and eligible to practice law in New South Wales.
* 5+ years PQE providing legal advice across life insurance law, superannuation, or financial services.
* Experience working with regulatory obligations and engaging with regulators or trustees.
* Ability to receive instructions, analytically assess issues and communicate advice clearly and in a non-legalistic way.
* Strong written communications skills and ability to produce a variety of documents that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought, and orderliness of presentation.
* Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build and maintain trustful, working relationships at all levels of the organisation; able to demonstrate professional and tactful customer relationship skills.
Belong. Zurich is here to support you
There are so many reasons why Zurich is a great place to be and the right choice for you, but here are just a few.
* Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave for permanent staff through our Z leave initiative, along with 15 days of personal/carer's leave as we empower our people to manage their own wellbeing. Plus, access to Family Care (parental leave).
* Benefit from a hybrid working arrangement – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home per week for full-time employees.
* Access programs to stay healthy and feel healthier, receive an AUD$500 wellbeing payment per year, and a AUD$295 new starter e-voucher for your work-from-home setup (flex work - hybrid working), along with other great benefits through our Shine portal.
* Grow and thrive in your career with our award-winning training programs. We support and encourage your development because our strength lies in our people, and we value your individuality.
* Work with global, diverse, and inclusive teams; explore your passions, fuel innovation, drive equity, collaborate, and make a positive difference beyond your role.
* Take advantage of global mobility opportunities across more than 200 countries worldwide.
* Volunteer and work in our state-of-the-art Green Star rated offices (when you are in the office) and dress for your day.
* We plant a tree for every new employee.
* Not to mention our various employer of choice awards/memberships – WGEA; Family Inclusive Workplace; Gold AWEI Employer, Pride in Diversity... to name a few.
We could go on, but the main point is that Zurich is a great place to be, where you can truly belong, be yourself, maintain work/life balance, and thrive in a supportive environment.
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