Minimum Education and Experience: - 4 year LLB Degree or equivalent.
- Admitted Attorney having served articles of clerkship or Admitted Advocate, having served pupillage.
- 3 5 years Post admission experience.
- Custodian of legal agreements as applicable and responsible for developing and reviewing them from time to time to ensure legal compliance
- Drafting of Legal Agreements and SLAs
- Assessment of impact of any new legislation and providing training to Legal and affected Business Units from time to time
- Providing legal advice and opinions to Divisions and within the regionalisation model
- Legal research and legal reviews and due diligence investigations
- Receive requests for the drafting of Contracts
- Assess and discuss requirements with the client and draft initial contracts
- Review inputs and amend according to comments received
- Prepare execution versions of the contract, together with control sheets, acquire internal signatories and submit for external signatures
Critical Competencies - Legislation
- Legal opinions
- Report writing
- Compilation of policies and procedures
- Legal reviews and due diligence
- Research
- Drafting
- In depth knowledge of the Companies Act, National Credit Act, Consumer Protection Act, Land Bank Act, and other legislation related to financial institutions and employee relations.
Please note that if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application that your application was unsuccessful.