Job Description
Admitted Attorney with 8+ years' experience post articles, responsible for drafting third-party agreements, legal risk management, and supporting the product team from a product perspective. The role involves providing leadership in delivering reliable, accurate, timely, and well-informed advice on complex legal issues/matters, as well as identifying and assessing the potential legal implications for the Bank/Business Brand/business area.
The Legal Advisor provides specialist sound legal advice to the business on complex legal matters relating to business products and services. Execution of activities aims to enable strategic outcomes for the business area and the effective and efficient management of legal risk.
- Provide advice to the leadership team across the range of the business area’s legal interests, risks, and obligations.
- Contribute to legal assurance perspective to the business area’s strategic and governance processes, particularly the executive decision-making process.
- Provide professional legal services which may include sound legal advice, expert drafting of legal documentation, managing disputes, and managing legal projects.
- Report to business area management on legal matters.
- Evaluate the merit of potentially litigious disputes and consult with relevant stakeholders to protect the interests of the business area.
- Identify emerging legal risks and ensure training on legal risk management takes place.
- Provide comments on emerging legislation that impacts the business area.
- Report on legal risk management in the business area; seeking input and guidance on more complex ambiguous issues.
- Provide insight into the strategy for the business area and add value to decision-making processes alongside other business area managers.
- Drive the implementation of strategic objectives to sustain action towards achieving both organisational and legal function objectives.
- Add value to the development and implementation of internal controls, policies, and guidelines for the legal function and specific business area, ensuring their alignment with functional objectives and statutory requirements.
- Conduct medium to long-term planning, making decisions and taking action to achieve challenging goals and deliver on multiple complex tasks.
- Provide legal expertise to develop innovative and relevant technology requirements to drive the optimisation of work output.
- Use digitisation effectively to work smarter, more efficiently, and accurately on document reviews, reporting, effective filing of matters, and sharing of information with peers.
- Understand the business unit goals and consider them when executing transactions efficiently through the utilisation of technology and simplified processes.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to junior legal advisers and direct reports.
- Stay up to date with all developments in the law in relation to his/her areas of legal practice.
- Comply with all professional and ethical standards relevant to in-house legal advisers.
- Monitor, analyse, and evaluate the impact and legal implications of developments in the industry and related areas, including the activities of competitors, and proactively work with the Legal Centres of Expertise to recommend effective courses of action to adopt a stance or avert potential threats.
- Monitor compliance with legal and statutory requirements related to the legal risks of the organisation.
Qualifications
Additional Information
8+ years' experience post articles.
Job Details
Application Closing Date
28/09/24
All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. Candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis, which will be kept confidential unless required by law to disclose this information to other parties.
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