Legal Counsel
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Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?
At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to join our Risk Legal Governance team. Reporting into our Head of Legal - Insurance Claims and Disputes, your role will primarily focus on providing legal support for a range of work streams at MLC Life Insurance as required.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing efficient and effective legal support to Claims Consultants and members of the Claims Leadership Team, which appropriately considers the broader commercial environment in which MLC Life operates.
- Supporting the business respond to, and advising the business in relation to, Regulatory investigations and requests, including formal Notices issued to MLC Life Insurance.
- Managing a portfolio of litigated matters.
- Advising MLC Resolve in relation to IDR and EDR disputes.
- Defending disputes on MLC’s behalf before external forums such as HREOC and the OIAC.
- Providing legal support to product owners including in relation to new product development product maintenance and improvement, advice on product obligations, policy drafting and reinsurance treaties.
- Driving continuous improvement in workflow and cost efficiency, panel management, knowledge management and team capability in the MLC Life Insurance legal practice.
About You
The successful candidate will be a commercially focused lawyer with 5+ years PQE in an Australian jurisdiction in life insurance law, specifically in relation to life insurance claims issues. You will also have:
- Prior experience in advising or supporting responses to Regulatory Notices and providing advice on life insurance claims issues.
- Current and unrestricted Australian practicing certificate.
- Demonstrated effectiveness at managing multiple stakeholders and competing demands.
- Strong problem solving and influencing skills.
Bringing our best to life - why join us?
- We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
- We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
- We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
- We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
- We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
- We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.
MLC Life Insurance and Nippon Life Insurance Group – working together to protect Australians when they need it most. Protecting you sits at the very heart of everything we do – that’s why we’re investing in your future. It’s also why we’ve partnered with one of the world’s leading life insurers – Nippon Life Insurance Group. We want to provide even better life insurance options for every Australian – to make sure you have access to life insurance products that are innovative, competitive and flexible enough to change as your needs change.
Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.
MLC Life Insurance and Nippon Life Insurance Group – working together to protect Australians when they need it most. Protecting you sits at the very heart of everything we do – that’s why we’re investing in your future. It’s also why we’ve partnered with one of the world’s leading life insurers – Nippon Life Insurance Group. We want to provide even better life insurance options for every Australian – to make sure you have access to life insurance products that are innovative, competitive and flexible enough to change as your needs change.
Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.
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