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American Express Legal Counsel - Regulatory in New South Wales, Australia
Description
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
We’re looking for an energetic, creative, and pragmatic regulatory lawyer to join our Sydney legal team. This role suits a lawyer with payments, financial services and general consumer protection regulatory experience. Above all, we need a self-starter who is intellectually curious, collaborative and can be relied upon to grow the culture of regulatory compliance within American Express.
Who are we?
American Express is one of the most recognised brands on the planet. Since its early beginning as a freight forwarding company in 1850, change has been the only constant in its 150 year history. American Express has literally seen and been it all. We practically invented the traveller’s cheque; we made credit cards cool and travelling easy. And all along the way one thing has remained our constant and singular focus –providing the world’s best customer experience every day.
The current moment sees financial services and payments in a state of intense disruption, innovation and competition. Driven by new technology, the regulatory environment struggles to keep pace. We need people who can help our business teams get in front of the commercial, legal and regulatory change that typifies this moment. There has never been a better time to be a lawyer at American Express.
Responsibilities include:
Providing advice on any regulation that impacts American Express business including financial services, payments, consumer protection, consumer credit, corporations, tax, privacy and AML/KYC legislation and regulation.
Monitoring, researching, and providing clear and succinct advice to the business on legal and regulatory changes that impact American Express and assisting with strategies to deal with them.
Engaging with regulators, regulatory reporting including supporting legal entity teams with tax reporting, submissions to industry bodies and regulators, assisting with any regulatory queries or investigations.
Delivering training and developing tools and guidance to help business colleagues make sense of the legal and regulatory world around them.
Preparing advice and detailed reports for various internal and external stakeholders and leaders in the business as required.
Where capacity allows, working across the legal team to provide support for various lines of the American Express business.
Skills
Admitted lawyer with extensive regulatory experience in payments, financial products, consumer credit, general consumer protection, privacy, AML/KYC or other financial industry regulation
Keen interest in regulatory and legal issues around payments and financial services
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal (i.e. the ability to communicate complex things in a concise way and provide clear choices)
Great collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and efficiently
Experience working in-house or at a financial services regulator
Experience dealing with regulators and drafting submissions to financial services regulators
Interest in contributing to the social enterprise goals outside of core legal role (e.g. Pro Bono work, Corporate Sustainability, volunteering and community engagement)
If this sounds like something you are interested in, drop us your CV. Don’t sell yourself short - it’s ok if you don’t tick all of our boxes, we value people who give things a go!
Qualifications
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Job: Legal
Primary Location: Australia-New South Wales-Sydney
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24007523