As a Senior Lawyer, your role entails providing high-quality legal and strategic advice with a commercial perspective to support the interests of the Group. Your primary focus will be on the Commercial Insurance business, covering various aspects such as:
* Drafting Commercial Insurance Products
* Insurance Product Distribution
* Regulatory Compliance
* Contract Drafting and Review
What you’ll do
Reporting to the Manager Legal, Insurance Advisory, your responsibilities will include:
* Provision of legal advice in relation to development and administration of Insurance products (Inc. policy wording and PDS reviews, product development advice, statutory notices and disclosure)
* Legal advice in respect of the distribution of Insurance products and partnering arrangements (Inc. broker and intermediary arrangements, and strategic partnerships)
* Act as point of technical escalation for matters in your functional areas
* Identify matters which have the potential to impact the Group’s interests and provide expert legal advice to protect these interests
* Provide legal advice in respect of regulatory matters involving ASIC, APRA and the ACCC
* Support business’ compliance with financial services legislation, privacy legislation and legislation regulating the issue and distribution of financial products
What you’ll need
* Extensive experience drafting or litigating a range of commercial insurance policies including Profin, property and engineering lines - Mandatory
* Tertiary qualifications in Law – Mandatory
* Current Practising Certificate – Mandatory
* Admission as a Solicitor or Barrister in any Australian Court – Mandatory
* Relevant experience in legal advisory work in relation to insurance, distribution and financial services
* Experience in financial services, ideally insurance and/or distribution and advice
* Demonstrates a high degree of knowledge of relevant area of law and practice experience
* Ability to make effective decisions in a timely manner and to escalate as appropriate
* Highly developed critical thinking skills, and the ability to complete work in a resourceful, agile and commercial way
* Demonstrated Lawyer capability aligned to internal Suncorp Legal Capability Framework
What we can offer
* A range of flexible working and leave options, including 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 weeks paid secondary carer parental leave and unlimited paid emergency response leave
* Discounts and offers on a range of retail favourite stores as well as banking and insurance products
* Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave
* Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs; and
* Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council
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