Head of Legal, ANZ
ANZ
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Paris • 🇫🇷 France
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Lead
About the role
- Provide legal counsel to Directeur General and senior leaders, supporting risk, compliance, and enablement functions.
- Develop deep understanding of business strategy, operations and customer needs.
- Support banking transactions originating from ANZ Europe SA, including reviewing, negotiating, and drafting documentation under English and French law.
- Deliver detailed legal and structuring advice and guide new product processes and policy development.
- Monitor and interpret the legal and regulatory landscape, global trends, and associated risks, while supporting the implementation of regulatory changes.
- Provide expert regulatory advice, assist with compliance matters, and manage remediation activities, investigations, and regulatory enquiries.
- Manage relationships with panel law firms and oversee appropriate cost control measures in legal engagements.
- Prepare meeting papers, agendas, minutes, and resolutions, manage pre and post meeting formalities.
- Provide secretarial and governance support for board and shareholder meetings.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in corporate legal advisory in financial services, ideally as Directeur Juridique or Responsable Juridique in France.
- Proven track record in governance, cross-border banking transactional matters, and legal risk management.
- Strong understanding of French and European legal systems.
- A strong understanding of Markets or Lending products and documentation within Institutional Banking
- Bilingual proficiency in French and English as this role will interact with internal stakeholders and local regulators.
- Familiarity with cross-border legal practices and international regulatory frameworks is preferred.
- Exposure to legal technology and innovation in legal services is an advantage.
Benefits
- access to health and wellbeing services
- discounts on selected products and services from ANZ
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal counselrisk managementcompliancecontract negotiationdocumentation draftingregulatory advicelegal advisorygovernancelegal risk managementcross-border banking
Soft skills
relationship managementcommunicationorganizational skillsstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingattention to detailcollaborationleadership