Corporate Counsel

• Join a large in-house legal team
• Supportive and collaborative working environment
• Flexible work hours | hybrid model
• Wellbeing benefits – mental, physical & financial Support

Why join us?

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.

Join TAL Australia as a Corporate Counsel, where you will support our Group Life and Retirement business across a range of commercial and regulatory legal issues.

You will join a team of experienced lawyers who are committed to helping shape the laws and regulations in the life insurance industry by participating in industry working groups and providing submissions to Government, Treasury, and regulators on legal and regulatory change. 

In this role you will: 

• Advise on life insurance products and policy documents, and agreements required for TAL’s business including with our partners and third-party suppliers
• Review disclosure material and marketing
• Advise on legal matters relevant to our business, including the Corporations Act, Insurance Contracts Act, Life Insurance Act, Superannuation laws and other legislation relevant to a financial services business (including privacy law)
• Pro-actively identify regulatory or legislative developments relating to the TAL business
• Advise on and assist with legal advice on and communication to relevant stakeholders (including regulators) on breach reporting and remediation
• Support the needs of the broader Legal team

• Admitted as a solicitor in Australia
• Minimum 3 years legal experience in financial services
• Experience in life investments products, group insurance, retirement income or negotiating commercial contracts highly regarded
• Excellent technical knowledge of financial services laws including Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act, Life Insurance Act, Insurance Contracts Act and the Supervision Industry (Supervision) Act
• Strong communications skills
• Collaborative and a team player

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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