Legal Counsel
at MLC Life Insurance
Docklands, Victoria, Australia -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 03 Sep, 2024 | USD 727 Annual | 04 Jun, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?
At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
Responsibilities:
We are seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to join our Risk Legal Governance team. Reporting into our Head of Legal - Insurance Claims and Disputes, your role will primarily focus on providing legal support for a range of work streams at MLC Life Insurance as required.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing efficient and effective legal support to Claims Consultants and members of the Claims Leadership Team, which appropriately considers the broader commercial environment in which MLC Life operates.
- Supporting the business respond to, and advising the business in relation to, Regulatory investigations and requests, including formal Notices issued to MLC Life Insurance.
- Managing a portfolio of litigated matters.
- Advising MLC Resolve in relation to IDR and EDR disputes.
- Defending disputes on MLC’s behalf before external forums such as HREOC and the OIAC.
- Providing legal support to product owners including in relation to new product development product maintenance and improvement, advice on product obligations, policy drafting and reinsurance treaties.
- Driving continuous improvement in workflow and cost efficiency, panel management, knowledge management and team capability in the MLC Life Insurance legal practice.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Insurance
Banking / Insurance
Insurance
Trade Certificate
Current and unrestricted australian practicing certificate.
Proficient
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Docklands VIC, Australia