Legal Counsel Investments (12Month Maternity Leave Cover)

Are you passionate about making a positive impact to our members' dignified retirement?

You will play a pivotal role in providing strategic legal advice and support to our Investment team.

The opportunity

As a lawyer in the Investment team at Hostplus, you will play an important role in providing strategic legal advice and support to our high performing and award-winning Investment strategy and Investment operations teams. Reporting directly to the Head of Investments - Legal, you will undertake the crucial responsibility of overseeing all legal facets of our investment activities, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and commercial effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assisting with legal due diligence for investments across diverse asset classes including equities, private equity, credit, alternatives, property, and infrastructure.
• Liaising with external legal advisors to secure pragmatic and cost-efficient Legal Counsel, while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Negotiating and managing complex investment-related documentation across all asset classes.
• Delivering timely and commercially sound legal advice on investment activities and related commercial ventures.
• Overseeing investment-related projects resulting from regulatory changes, policy updates, and internal initiatives.
• Contributing to the enhancement and implementation of legal initiatives pertaining to due diligence processes, precedents, and control mechanisms.

About you

• Bachelor of Laws and admitted to practice in an Australian State or Territory.
• Minimum 4 years PQE in financial services working as a funds lawyer and/or corporate transactional lawyer.
• Exceptional communication skills and well-rounded interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust with and the confidence of colleagues and stakeholders across different levels and locations.
• Agile and adaptable, able to manage competing priorities and capable of managing legal matters of all sizes and levels of complexity.
• You can work autonomously, whilst also being able to provide support to the Head of Investments - Legal for various projects and requests.
• A proactive approach, with strong attention to detail and a curious mindset.

Our employees are passionate about what we do and are proud to be part of an organisation which helps everyday Australians achieve a brighter future. We value diversity of thought and have an open and flexible workplace. Some industry leading benefits we offer include:

• Hybrid and flexible work environment
• 15% superannuation
• Additional paid leave over Christmas and New Year
• Additional 5 days paid "flex leave", so that you can take time out when you need it
• 3 days community service leave

About us

At Hostplus, we passionately provide our over 1.7 million members with the best possible service; constantly looking for new ways to deliver better value while helping members get the most out of their super. We are inspired to help our members achieve greater security for their future and ensure they retire with dignity.

Your role at Hostplus will make a difference, whether you're in marketing, financial advice, operations or any of our other divisions - you'll be contributing to ensuring our members retire with the best possible outcomes, and what better feeling is there than knowing your role helps someone to retire with dignity and security?

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our members, and the communities we operate in.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ages, religions, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, LGBTIQ+ people, those with a disability, neurodiverse individuals, women, and people with a cultural or linguistically diverse background. If a reasonable adjustment is required to assist you during the recruitment process, please reach out to us via email at ******@hostplus.com.au

How do I apply?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow the prompts to make an application.

We have an important duty to our members, all appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Check.

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• Published on 02 Apr 2024, 10:43 PM