Legal Counsel, Treasury

Space for the best in you

Embark on a career at Dexus, where if you’re curious, determined and collaborative, you’ll find space for the best in you. As part of a business responsible for a $45.3 billion property portfolio, you’ll take pride in the meaningful impact of your work across Australia, and experience what it’s like to grow with a company that’s invested in supporting your wellbeing.

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting, newly created role for an experienced Lawyer/Senior Associate to join the Dexus Legal team with the aim of providing accurate, pragmatic, and commercially focused legal advice to the Dexus Treasury team.

The Role:

Reporting direct to Senior Legal Counsel, the successful candidate will also act as the liaison point between the Treasury team and the broader Legal, Compliance and Governance teams. The objective of the role is to provide strategic legal support to the growing treasury business (balance sheet and funds management) both internally and in dealings with external counsel and key stakeholders.

The Legal Counsel, Treasury will act as an ambassador for the Legal, Compliance and Governance team in coordinating dealings with the Treasury team.

About you:

We are looking for a highly driven individual with a commercial approach to legal matters and the confidence to successfully advise the business on legal issues. You will have minimum 4 years of post-qualification experience as a Lawyer/Solicitor or Senior Associate in a major law firm or a Legal Counsel in a corporate role. Over your career, you will have developed expertise across structuring and documentation of complex borrowing and risk management transactions. Exposure to ancillary legal areas as they relate to property including ASX Listing Rules, ASIC Class Orders, structuring of transactions, property finance, funds management, dispute resolution and insolvency would be highly advantageous.

The ideal candidate will present excellent communications and negotiation skills, an enthusiastic attitude and display a real knack for building relationships with stakeholders across all levels of seniority & diverse personalities.

About us:

At Dexus we value diversity and inclusion across our organisation. We are proud to have our Workplace Gender Equality Agency accreditation, which recognises employers that are leaders in gender equality.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for roles at Dexus, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As an employee of Dexus, you will have access to and benefit from:

• Flexible working – such as a blend of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Benefits such as a Wellbeing Allowance, five additional annual leave ‘Dexus’ days and our Safe and Well program
• Professional development and memberships, as well as study assistance

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have:

• TRIBE, our established LGBTI+ Dexus network
• FLIP, our Future Leaders in Property program which provided exposure for young women to the property industry
• A partnership with Parents@Work, providing our parents and carers with coaching, education sessions and online learning
• Opportunities for our female leaders to attend Chief Executive Women (CEW) leaders’ program