Careers

The Opportunity:

We are Australia's foremost legal-led consultancy that offers a truly differentiated client and employee experience in the market. We combine the legal expertise and backing of a leading, global law firm with highly experienced, specialist risk consultants to provide unique, integrated and holistic solutions to our clients so they can navigate the complexities of conducting businesses globally. After successfully establishing the division in Australia in 2020, our now 100 strong team have developed a market leading reputation and in October 2022 expanded into the United Kingdom (UK).

Our Projects and Commercial Advisory capability delivers strategic projects and commercial advice and solutions to enable planning, delivery and operation of major infrastructure projects and programs across a range of priority portfolios including energy, transport, housing, health, education and others.

As a result of establishing and growing our team we are looking to hire a Specialist (equivalent to a Senior Consultant in Big4 consulting) with contracts management and/or audit experience in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane.

Your work will include advising clients on the design, development and implementation of contracts which will deliver major infrastructure projects, Defence projects as well as long-term services based contracts for utilities and transport operators. You will work closely with our adjacent legal services teams as well as our broader risk advisory and Ashurst Advance practices to deliver high quality, value adding services to clients wanting to extract maximum value from their contracting arrangements.

The role also provides the opportunity to work across our Projects and Commercial Advisory teams and the broader Risk Advisory division to help develop your broader skills and experience.

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers site as it provides more detail around the team, role, what we can offer you, and what we are looking for.

About You:

• You have 2-5 years of specialised contracts management and/or audit experience, ideally within an infrastructure environment.
• Experience in the infrastructure, projects or property industry is essential.
• You're a self-starter who is keen to work in a fast-paced environment that is always evolving and requires you to be proactive, adaptable and humble.
• You have proven experience delivering high quality work for clients and stakeholders in line with expectations and deadlines.
• You're confident in autonomously finding solutions to a range of problems, especially those related to risk management, in a commercial and client focused way.
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication with a focus on attention to detail. You will have experience writing a range of business documents including reports, letters and proposals.
• You have experience providing the highest quality service to clients and fostering professional and commercial relationships with a range of stakeholders.

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We are a team devoted to collaboration, diversity, transparency and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around teamwork and a structure that offers everyone a voice and the encouragement to help us build the practice. Our ambition is to hire a highly diverse team combining various personalities, cultures and professional backgrounds, and offer them the opportunity to directly deal with clients, take responsibility for business development, drive their careers, and help us in defining our strategy, culture and processes.

We offer award winning Learning & Development and Diversity & Inclusion programs, and a range of benefits including, subsidised gym membership, discounted health insurance, complimentary health and wellbeing support programs, study support, annual bonuses, flexible working, and 26 weeks parental leave, to name a few. We are also committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme, with a strong emphasis on working with First Nations people through our pro bono practice.

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