Senior Legal Counsel, Insurance and Customer

SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, INSURANCE AND CUSTOMER – CORPORATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNANCE – SYDNEY

At Allianz, we’re proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.

We offer an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.

Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

About the role

Join our dynamic in‑house legal team, where you will provide legal advice across the Allianz insurance product lifecycle. In this role, you will work closely with the division and collaborate across the broader Allianz business to help enable commercial outcomes while managing legal and regulatory risk.

• Support the delivery of timely, pragmatic and commercial legal advice around insurance product development, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and Allianz’s strategic objectives.
• Lead and perform detailed policy wording and product documentation reviews, including technical drafting and interpretation of insurance contract terms and customer disclosures, ensuring clarity, compliance and consistency across the product suite.
• Provide clear, practical solutions focused legal input on day‑to‑day matters impacting Allianz’s products, services, distribution and customer communications, including marketing activities.
• Support claims teams with advice on complex claim scenarios, policy operation, coverage intent and dispute risk, helping inform decisions.
• Assist with the legal review and approval of public‑facing documents in accordance with Allianz’s Public Document Due Diligence (PDDD) Policy, within agreed timeframes; ensuring timely, accurate and compliant materials across PDSs, notices, customer communications and marketing content.
• Negotiate, draft and review legal agreements, ensuring contractual terms reflect commercial intent, regulatory obligations and risk appetite.
• Assess and clearly communicate legal and regulatory risk, contributing to decision‑making aligned with Allianz’s commercial objectives and risk appetite, with escalation as appropriate.
• Say informed of regulatory developments and changes in law relevant to Allianz’s businesses and assist in preparing the business to respond to those changes.
• Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams, including Product, Underwriting, Claims, Distribution, Pricing, Risk, Compliance and Marketing, to support commercial outcomes.

About you

• Bachelor of Laws or equivalent certification and current legal practicing certificate. Minimum of 8 years post qualification experience.
• Admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of a State or Territory Supreme Court in Australia.
• Relevant General Insurance legal experience in in-house or in a law firm position. General Insurance product and policy experience is highly regarded.
• Understanding of relevant regulatory and legislative requirements impacting financial services and insurance, including the Corporations Act, Insurance Contracts Act and GICOP, with exposure to related areas such as privacy and contract law.
• A commercial focus, with the ability to consider your legal advice in the context of business objectives.
• Ability to analyse information, identify key legal and regulatory risks, and help inform decision‑making by clearly articulating issues and available options.
• An eagerness to partner and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the business to build effective professional relationships and support positive outcomes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to support negotiations and clearly explain legal issues to non‑legal stakeholders.
• A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Benefits and perks

• Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day!
• Flexible Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible and remote work options and workplace adjustments, with support for your work/life balance.
• Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
• Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!
• For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

About Allianz Group

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Adjustments and support

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to careers@allianz.com.au for a confidential conversation.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. www.allianz.com.au/careers