Citigroup

Legal Counsel, Corporate Finance, Treasury & Trade – Vice President

Sydney, Australia · hybrid · full_time

About the job

The Legal Counsel position is a member of the Citi Legal, Australia & NZ team, located in Sydney, primarily supporting the Corporate Bank, Commercial Bank, Treasury & Trade Solutions and Spread Products businesses of Citi's Institutional Clients Group. These businesses cover a broad range of corporate finance transactions and products, including structured finance, business banking for mid-large cap corporates, commercial real estate financing, payments platforms, commercial corporate cards, warehouse lending and securitisation. In conjunction with the other Legal team members and the APAC Citi Legal Product Legal teams, the position supports the breadth of these business areas, along with the other functional teams that also support those businesses and the Citi Australia & NZ businesses.

In addition, owing to the small size of the Citi Australia & NZ Legal team, all members of the Citi Legal team work to support each other as necessary, and are exposed to different areas of work beyond their role. These areas include general commercial contracts and legal projects involving such things as legislative and regulatory change affecting the broader business, including foreign legislative change affecting the local business and local legislative change affecting Citi businesses outside of Australia.

Essential:

  • 3-8 years' post-qualification legal experience, either in-house or private practice in a common law jurisdiction
  • Extensive experience in dealing with legal issues and transactions in corporate finance, including acquisition finance, syndicated lending, bilateral secured and unsecured lending, commercial real estate financing, receivables financing and securitisation
  • Comprehensive knowledge of Australian state and federal applicable laws and practices
  • Proven analytical and organisational skills
  • A demonstrated ability to provide clear and concise written and verbal communication to varied audiences
  • Some broader commercial law experience
  • Flexibility and willingness to apply their skills to products, issues and legislation in which they may not have had previous experience
  • Strong time management skills, practical solutions focused and a history of providing excellent client service
  • Strong team spirit and enthusiasm; willing to contribute to broader legal team and business initiatives, and to support other members lawyers in the team
  • Ability to create and build effective working relationships with colleagues, business and functional teams
  • A current Australian practising certificate or an ability to obtain one by the date of commencement

    • Desirable:

  • Experience in dealing with legal issues in payments platforms and commercial corporate cards
  • Experience working across borders in a multi-national environment
  • NZ legal experience
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    • Job Family Group:

    Legal

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    • Job Family:

    Legal - Country

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    • Time Type:

    Full time

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    • Most Relevant Skills

    Please see the requirements listed above.

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    • Other Relevant Skills

    For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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