Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Crime Legal

• Job number:

  808305

• Primary position location:

  VIC- Melbourne CBD

• Category:

  Legal

• Work type:

  External

• Work type:

  Fixed term Full time

• Closing at: Jul 29 2026 - 23:55 AEST

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Exciting opportunity to join the Financial Crime Legal team to provide strategic and legal advice to NAB Group on financial crime issues.

Our people are customer obsessed. They prioritise the needs and satisfaction of the customer above all else. Our mindset fosters innovation and creates strong, lasting customer relationships as we strive to be the most customer centric company in Australia and New Zealand.

You’ll make an impact each day by:

• Exciting opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel in either VIC or NSW

• Join a supportive and collaborative team of lawyers that shapes NAB Group’s response to financial crime, with particular focus on Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) law

• Assist stakeholders to consider holistic implications of issues including customer impact

• Be supported to learn and grow whilst developing the career you want

You make NAB. You get it done for our customers and our communities. You’re laying the foundations for NAB’s future success. With a winning environment, together we’ll grow, excel for our customers and feel proud to work at NAB.

It’s a good time to see how you can grow your career with the Financial Crime Legal team. Although a majority of the team’s work is focused on AML/CTF law, the team also provides advice regarding sanctions and anti-bribery/corruption laws. Additionally, we advise on associated regulatory engagement and other risks.

You’ll bring to this role:

• Provide subject matter expertise and legal advice on financial crime, anti-bribery and corruption and sanctions legal and regulatory matters to NAB Group

• Advise on updates to NAB Group policy and procedure in relation to financial crime, including the NAB Group AML/CTF Program

• Proactively identify legal, regulatory and reputational risks to the business

• Contribute effectively as a member of the Financial Crime Legal team

• Support initiatives aimed to ensure that the Financial Crime domain is simple, fast, resilient and more customer focused, whilst meeting legal and regulatory requirements

• Engage, monitor and supervise external legal advisers, manage external and internal legal adviser relationships, and facilitate communication between external legal advisers with internal NAB stakeholders

• Be a role model, demonstrate NAB’s Service Behaviours and bring a customer-centric approach to your work

Join NAB
If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply.

Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.