What a Senior Associate Counsel, Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific in Legal does at Visa:

The position is for a highly motivated and skilled lawyer to join Visa's growing legal team. You will be a key regulatory and commercial legal lead supporting the Visa business teams as they expand their value-added services and product offerings to enhance value for traditional bank/FI clients as well as develop new clients/partners/business streams in the evolving payment ecosystem. You will be exposed to a broad range of product and commercial legal work, supporting regulatory reviews and commercial negotiations in the areas of value added services, including digital/tech partnerships, acceptance solutions, and other financial/technology products and services.

You will report to the Senior Managing Counsel for Visa Legal in the Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific region and will work closely and in collaboration with Visa lawyers across geographies and functional support areas, including the Visa lawyers from Singapore, the US headquarters and other international offices.

You should have a good working knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to financial, digital and payments services, including payments/FI licensing, data privacy and outsourcing regulatory regimes in Australia (and preferably, in addition, New Zealand) and have experience in conducting and leading regulatory reviews and contractual negotiations.  You should also be well versed in commercial, technology and IP laws, and be able to apply this experience to your role in Visa by being a sound and practical legal advisor to the business.  You must have excellent risk judgment and analytical capability, and be a strong and efficient communicator, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast paced and challenging, but rewarding, environment. 

In this role, you are expected to:

• Be the lead counsel driving commercial negotiations on both the supply side as well as the client facing side.
• Assist with regulatory consultations/compliance with regulations across the region as applicable to existing or new Visa products/initiatives.
• Assist with regulatory issues relating to products, services or functions.
• Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, technology, or strategic partnership agreements in support of business objectives.
• Provide advice and guidance to business and product teams regarding deal structures and key risks and proactively identify and resolve legal issues/risks.
• Possess strong inter-personal skills including the ability to communicate complex legal issues (and relevant solutions/recommendations), clearly and practically to the business.
• Travel as needed.

Why this is important to Visa

The Senior Associate Counsel will play a key role as a trusted advisor to our commercial solutions and products businesses that represent some of the most important pillars of Visa’s future growth and strategy. This role is critical in ensuring that both supply and client facing contracts and negotiations are managed efficiently with relevant stakeholders while enabling our business to innovate and push across new frontiers (particularly in the fast-evolving global payments industry).

The Senior Associate Counsel can look forward to being a key representative of a high performing Legal team in advising and managing projects that drive innovation and development within the payments industry.

Projects you will be a part of:

You will be a member of a local and regional legal team that works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Liaising with customer to plan and implement agreed services
• Scheduling of appointments.
• Maintaining busy inboxes, with queries, appointments and non-appointment services
• Providing administrative and operational support to consultant practitioners
• Providing information and advice to customers, or prospective customers
• Undertaking other tasks assigned to the Client Services team, including reception duties,  dictation, invoicing and supporting the greater team in general.

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• Responsible for creating and preparing all promotional materials and campaigns alongside driving technical requirements.
• Manage mlcoa LinkedIn pages, including content creation, reporting on results and optimising activity accordingly.
• Plan, create and schedule weekly and monthly communications in line with promotions, events and other marketing initiatives.
• Coordinate marketing calendar to ensure all activity is on track as planned and stakeholders are kept up to date on the status of work.
• Ownership of brand websites ensuring all content is up to date, working closely with external agencies to carry out required maintenance and updates.
• Develop and create all marketing materials in line with brand guidelines including flyers, product sheets, presentations, brochures and infographics.
• Organise and execute conferencing events, sponsorship and association relationships. Including end to end support of quarterly in-person educational seminars.
• Organise and oversee mlcoa’s national webinar schedule, including setting up event in Teams Webinar, preparing marketing material and comms to advertise to customers (Quick word, LinkedIn, mlcoa Website, vault Resources), support speaker with formatting slides and on the day of the session, set up ‘’resources webpage’’ and event survey etc.
• Manage mlcoa team email signatures via Exclaimer Cloud, including producing banners in line with current campaign
• Oversee the mlcoa pages on the MedHealth intranet, including internal and external document management
• Support and collaborate with stakeholders across mlcoa and wider MedHealth organisation.
• Monitor mlcoa national email inbox, and distribute correspondence to the appropriate individual, or state / territory office

Regular Weekly Duties:

• Attend weekly Marketing and team WIPs
• Prepare purchase orders, updating PO trackers and sending invoices for payment
• Prize fulfillment, sending out merchandise and prizing to winners
• General administration duties
• Preparing and sending film review reports
• Updating and maintaining key contact data bases
• Assisting in creating influencer strategy plans

Database Management:

• Update the media, influencer and exhibition database to ensure contacts are most current

Events / Screenings

• General administrative and event support at screenings and premiere events
• Sending out screening invitations and compiling RSVP’s and door list
• Central Diary booking management