Corporate Counsel

Company Description

• Take on new responsibilities and learn new skills that elevate both your personal and professional journey within a supportive environment.
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions.
• Take advantage of well-being initiatives designed to support your mental and physical health, ensuring a balanced lifestyle.

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services. 

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities. 

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance. 

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Job Description

As a Corporate Counsel, you'll apply your strong legal expertise and understanding of our business to provide clear, practical advice that supports our purpose of protecting what matters most. Acting as a subject matter expert, you’ll work independently and collaboratively to navigate legal and regulatory complexities, contributing to a high-performing legal team. With a focus on partnership, you’ll build strong relationships across the business and with external stakeholders to deliver effective, solutions-focused outcomes.

In This Role You Will:

• Manage litigated matters in collaboration with external legal partners
• Oversee external dispute resolution cases, including those with AFCA and similar bodies
• Provide timely legal advice and support to claims, underwriting, and other business units
• Deliver legal training to enhance capability within the claims and underwriting teams
• Advise risk and compliance teams on obligations under the Life Insurance Code of Practice
• Support the Internal Dispute Resolution team with legal guidance
• Collaborate with other legal teams to review product documentation and related materials

Qualifications

• Admitted to practise law with a minimum of 3 years PQE
• Previous experience in the financial services industry is desired
• Knowledge of insurance law
• Relevant legal tertiary education
• Collaborative and strong team player
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management skills

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. 
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.  
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you. 

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.   

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.  

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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