Job Description

Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we’re shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga – About the role

As a Lawyer in our Funds Management Legal Team, you’ll provide high‑quality legal advice and support to ANZ New Zealand’s Funds Management business. Reporting to the Associate General Counsel – Funds Management, you’ll play an important role in enabling the business to achieve its objectives while appropriately managing legal risk.

You’ll support a complex and evolving area, ensuring legal advice is timely, practical, commercially sound, and customer‑focused.

Banking is changing, and we’re changing with it - giving our people opportunities to learn, grow, and build meaningful careers. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be helping to build your future while contributing to ours.

Role Type: Permanent, Full-time
Role Location: Auckland or Wellington (open to other locations within New Zealand)

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? – What will your day look like

You’ll support the Funds Management business as a trusted adviser, helping ensure legal risks are understood, managed, and appropriately mitigated.

Your day‑to‑day will include:

• Providing quality, timely, and commercially appropriate legal advice and support to the Funds Management business, including advisory support for ANZ’s KiwiSaver schemes and other investment products
• Identifying, anticipating, and mitigating legal and regulatory risks, including the impact of changes in law and regulation
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and legal documentation
• Building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across Funds Management and the wider ANZ business
• Supporting appropriate governance and decision‑making consistent with ANZ’s values, policies, and risk appetite
• Contributing to a customer‑centric culture, ensuring customers remain at the centre of what we do and that we treat customers fairly

Ōu Pūkenga? – What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring:

• Experience advising on investment products and services, including knowledge of the Financial Markets Conduct Act and related regulations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, practical advice to a range of stakeholders
• Proven problem‑solving capability, with a solutions‑focused and commercially minded approach
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships, influence, and collaborate effectively across teams and organisational levels
• Experience drafting and reviewing contracts
• A Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a current New Zealand practising certificate

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 108848.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

08/04/2026 , 11.59pm, (NZST)