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

We are seeking a passionate Research Fellow (Grade 1) – Exercise Physiologist who will coordinate and contribute to a research trial with mental health services and organisations. 

Within this role you will work with Doctor Justin Chapman within the Centre for Mental Health in Professor Amanda Wheeler’s research group.

The Research Fellow will work on a project that is a clinical trial of exercise for people with severe mental illness. You will be accountable for day-to-day operations including resourcing, scheduling, prioritisation, task coordination within a team context, as well as reporting and delivering objectives and deliverables within agreed time frames and budgets.

What we can offer
This is a fixed term (2 year appointment), part-time position (0.8FTE) and will be primarily based at the Griffith University Nathan campus. As Griffith is a multi-campus University you may be required to work across other campus locations.

Salary Range
The full time equivalent base salary will be Academic Level RF1 range $86,526 - $90,775 per annum + 17% superannuation. The total FTE package will be in the range $101,235 - $106,206 per annum.

Griffith University’s campuses are located on the lands of the Yugarabul, Yuggera, Jagera, Turrbal, Yugambeh and Kombumerri peoples.

This Research Fellow position is funded by the Solving Plastic Waste Cooperative Research Centre, a multi-institution partnership between academia and industry that has secured investment from the Federal Government to develop solutions to tackle problems involving plastic waste over the next 10 years. The CRC aims to find innovative solutions for reducing plastic waste, improving recycling processes, and developing sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics. Griffith University is one of the core research partners in the Solving Plastic Waste CRC.

The Research Fellow is a key position for the Solving Plastic Waste CRC and will work within Research Program 1 under the supervision of Prof Stefanie Feih from Griffith with industry partners to characterise and advance recycled plastic material formulations for specific target applications and critical material specifications. This is a hands-on and industry-facing position. Most importantly, the successful candidate will lead the industry engagement, chemically and mechanically characterise recycled plastic materials, and develop qualification systems that can rapidly identify performance-reducing contaminants within recycled material sources.

The successful candidate will benefit from the extended Solving Plastic Waste education and training program including training in communications, innovation management and leadership; a wide range of industry leading microcredentials; and an annual collaborative Design Challenge to develop innovative systems approaches to Solving Plastic Waste.

This is a fixed term (3 year), full time position and will be primarily based at the Griffith University Gold Coast campus, with travel to the Nathan campus required for equipment access. As Griffith is a multi-campus University you may be required to work across other campus locations.

Griffith University’s campuses are located on the lands of the Yugarabul, Yuggera, Jagera, Turrbal, Yugambeh and Kombumerri peoples.

Salary Range
The full time equivalent base salary will be Research Fellow, Grade 2 range $110,464 - $131,180 per annum + 17% superannuation. The total FTE package will be in the range $129,243 - $153,481 per annum.

This position will suit an enthusiastic Veterinarian with some experience who would like to join a collaborative and supportive team. 

• No after-hours or Sunday work
• A growth-focused environment where your development is our priority
• A full-time or part-time permanent role – tell us how you like to work
• Five weeks annual leave, including one-week study leave
• CE programs, paid AVA or VIN memberships
• Paid parental leave
• Discounts on vet services and retail products across our clinic and Petbarn network
• Mental health first aid officers at each clinic
• Free and confidential counselling available 24/7 through Telus health.