MUFG

Global bank offering diversified financial services

Senior Legal Counsel - Retirement Solutions

Legal Counsel & Legal SupportConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeAustraliaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Qualified Australian lawyer with a current practising certificate.
At least 7 years of post-qualification experience, including in-house experience in superannuation, financial services, technology, or regulated outsourcing environments.
Strong commercial contracting expertise across complex outsourcing, technology, and service arrangements.
Understanding of the superannuation ecosystem, including trustees, administrators, platforms, data flows, and service delivery models.
Experience interpreting and applying APRA and ASIC regulatory frameworks, including CPS 230, outsourcing, operational resilience, breach reporting, privacy, and Australian Financial Services Licence requirements.
Experience supporting large-scale business transformation, migration, or technology-enabled service delivery programs.
Familiarity with AI-enabled legal technologies, contract automation, and process optimisation, or a genuine interest in developing these skills.
Ability to distil complex legal and regulatory issues into actionable guidance while preserving important nuance.
Ability to operate at pace across competing priorities without compromising quality.
Ability to build trusted relationships at all levels.
Ability to develop others, share knowledge, and contribute to a positive team culture.
High integrity and sound professional judgement consistent with a regulated financial services environment.

Responsibilities

Advise on risk allocation, service levels, performance frameworks, and accountability arrangements across major outsourcing and technology contracts with superannuation trustees and service providers.
Draft, negotiate, and manage bespoke, high-value, and operationally complex commercial arrangements.
Identify opportunities to embed automation into contract workflows and legal processes in line with regulatory requirements and organisational risk appetite.
Improve the Legal team's profile and effectiveness through training, knowledge-sharing, and practical self-service tools.
Support scalable legal processes, playbooks, and tools that improve efficiency and consistency without sacrificing quality.
Translate regulatory change into practical guidance for teams delivering technology builds, outsourcing arrangements, and trustee relationships.
Contribute to AI-enabled legal technology, contract automation, and process optimisation initiatives.
Lead, coach, and develop a Legal Counsel, fostering a collaborative and commercially minded team culture.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Operations, Technology, Transformation, Risk, Client, and Product teams.
Share knowledge and build capability across the business and Legal function.
Monitor and assess regulatory developments affecting superannuation trustees and service providers, including CPS 230, Payday Super reforms, APRA and ASIC requirements, and AFSL obligations.
Support the design and enhancement of compliance frameworks, policies, and risk controls, including opportunities to use automation and AI in monitoring and reporting.
Contribute to incident response, breach assessments, regulatory engagement, and operational resilience initiatives.

Overview

This senior commercial legal role supports one of Australia’s largest retirement solutions businesses across complex outsourcing, technology and trustee arrangements. The role operates at the intersection of commercial strategy, regulatory change and operational delivery, partnering with leaders across Operations, Technology, Transformation, Growth, Financial Advice and Client teams to solve complex problems and develop scalable legal frameworks. The role also leads and develops a Legal Counsel within the broader Legal function.

Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities

Strategic Focus

Advise on risk allocation, service levels, performance frameworks and accountability arrangements across major outsourcing and technology contracts with superannuation trustees and service providers.
Draft, negotiate and manage bespoke, high-value and operationally complex commercial arrangements.
Identify opportunities to embed automation into contract workflows and legal processes in line with regulatory requirements and organisational risk appetite.
Lift the profile and effectiveness of the Legal team through training, knowledge-sharing and practical self-service tools.

Operational Management

Support scalable legal processes, playbooks and tools that improve efficiency and consistency without sacrificing quality.
Translate regulatory change into practical guidance for teams delivering technology builds, outsourcing arrangements and trustee relationships.
Contribute to AI-enabled legal technology, contract automation and process optimisation initiatives.

People Leadership

Lead, coach and develop a Legal Counsel, fostering a collaborative and commercially minded team culture.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Operations, Technology, Transformation, Risk, Client and Product teams.
Share knowledge and build capability across the business and Legal function.

Governance & Risk

Monitor and assess regulatory developments affecting superannuation trustees and service providers, including CPS 230, Payday Super reforms, APRA and ASIC requirements, and AFSL obligations.
Support the design and enhancement of compliance frameworks, policies and risk controls, including opportunities to use automation and AI in monitoring and reporting.
Contribute to incident response, breach assessments, regulatory engagement and operational resilience initiatives.

The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.

Experience & Personal Attributes

Experience

Qualified Australian lawyer with a current practising certificate.
At least 7 years’ post-qualification experience, including in-house experience in superannuation, financial services, technology or regulated outsourcing environments.
Strong commercial contracting expertise across complex outsourcing, technology and service arrangements.
Understanding of the superannuation ecosystem, including trustees, administrators, platforms, data flows and service delivery models.
Experience interpreting and applying APRA and ASIC regulatory frameworks, including CPS 230, outsourcing, operational resilience, breach reporting, privacy and AFSL requirements.
Experience supporting large-scale business transformation, migration or technology-enabled service delivery programs.
Familiarity with AI-enabled legal technologies, contract automation and process optimisation, or a genuine interest in developing these skills.

Personal Attributes

Clear communicator who distils complex legal and regulatory issues into actionable guidance while preserving important nuance.
Comfortable operating at pace across competing priorities without compromising quality.
Collaborative and able to build trusted relationships at all levels.
Effective people leader who develops others, shares knowledge and contributes to a positive team culture.
Demonstrates high integrity and sound professional judgement consistent with a regulated financial services environment.

About the Company

MUFG

Global bank offering diversified financial services

MUFG is a major global financial group that provides a wide range of banking and financial services, including commercial and trust banking, securities, credit cards, and asset management. Its products are delivered through a network of domestic and international banks, digital platforms, and financial advisers, offering loans, deposits, payments, investment services, and asset management. MUFG stands out due to its size and scale as one of the world’s largest financial groups, its diversified offerings across banking and securities, and its strong international presence (notably expanding in the U.S. after investing in Morgan Stanley in 2008). Its goal is to support economic growth worldwide by expanding its global footprint and promoting sustainable finance.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Founded: 2006

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