BOQ Group is an Australian retail and commercial banking group serving individuals, businesses, and agribusiness customers. Its offering spans everyday transaction accounts, savings and term deposits, home and personal loans, credit cards, insurance, merchant and payment solutions, international payments, foreign exchange, and online trading. Customers can access these services through BOQ Group’s branch and ATM network, myBOQ app, and internet banking platforms. The group brings together customer-facing banking operations with specialist financial services for personal and business needs.
Senior Legal Counsel – Business Banking, Brisbane Onsite | BOQ Group
Provide senior legal support to BOQ Group’s Australian business banking brands across lending, finance transactions, and regulatory risk. Lead complex matters and transformation initiatives in an onsite Brisbane role.
Description
- Deliver practical, commercially focused legal advice across banking and finance activities
- Support stakeholders across BOQ, BOQ Specialist, BOQ Finance, and BOQ Financial Markets
- Advise on SME and corporate lending, deposit products, equipment and vendor finance, novated leasing, structured finance, foreign exchange products, and distribution arrangements
- Guide the development and amendment of lending and deposit product terms
- Negotiate tailored contractual arrangements
- Support transaction structuring, negotiation, and settlement
- Advise on regulatory implementation, customer remediation, mandatory breach reporting, marketing activities, and strategic transformation initiatives
- Manage multiple legal matters and projects at the same time
- Partner with Distribution, Product, Credit, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Transformation teams
- Offer clear advice, provide constructive challenge, and escalate emerging risks appropriately
- Lead complex transactions
- Contribute to initiatives that strengthen, simplify, digitise, and improve BOQ Group operations
Requirements
- Admission as an Australian legal practitioner with relevant experience
- At least eight years of post-admission experience
- Strong technical legal expertise gained in private practice, in-house work, or both
- Banking and finance experience is highly valued, especially transactional business banking, SME structures, loan facilities, equipment finance, or vendor finance
- Practical understanding of the legal and regulatory framework governing business banking
- Foundational knowledge of property, corporate, and trust law
- Ability to interpret complex legislative and regulatory requirements and give clear, commercially focused advice
- Sound legal and commercial judgement
- Ability to recognise connections across products and business functions
- Confidence to provide constructive challenge and escalate risks when necessary
- Ability to explain complex issues clearly
- Ability to lead significant transactions and projects with limited supervision
- Comfort using approved AI and legal technology tools while independently verifying outputs and retaining accountability
- Successful applicants must complete background screening, which may include identity, reference, criminal background, immigration, academic qualification, and bankruptcy checks
- Must satisfy employment conditions under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounts on financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum service requirements
- Ability to purchase additional annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance
- Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families
- Access to employee network groups covering First Nations reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, multicultural communities, gender, early careers, and accessibility
- Pride in Diversity membership
- Inclusive workplace with reasonable interview adjustments available