Senior Legal Advisor
10 hours ago
At **Nedgroup Investments**, a division of Nedbank, we hand pick independent managers in each fund category and partner with them to offer a range of expertly managed funds across all asset classes. This independence allows us to always put our investors first and to meet a full spectrum of investment and savings needs.
We are on the hunt for an exceptional individual to join our Legal, Risk and Compliance team as a **Senior Legal Advisor **to provide proactive professional legal advice and risk management services to internal clients to mitigate the legal risk of the business.
- Job Family- Risk, Audit and Compliance
- Career Stream- Legal
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional
**Job Purpose**
- To provide proactive professional legal advice and risk management services to internal clients to mitigate the banks legal risk.
**Responsibilities**:
- **Non-negotiable**: CISCA Knowledge and implementation
**-Good understanding of vehicle knowledge** e.g. Long Term insurance Act, Pension Fund Act, Income Tax Act, FAIS, FICA, POPIA, FATCA
- Achieve goals and objectives by understanding and embracing the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the Nedbank values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
- Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression opportunities for self with input from management.
- Support personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience gained and certifications obtained within specified time frames.
- Maintain knowledge management; and improve team success by sharing knowledge with team and stakeholders.
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives.
- Achieve key business strategies by participating and supporting corporate social responsibility initiatives.
- Add value to Nedbank by identifying and recommending opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
- Deliver on risk and compliance related projects by tracking progress and ensuring completion within specified time frames.
- Mitigate risk and minimize losses by identifying risk factors linked to non adherence to project timelines and recommended changes and courses of action.
- Improve business efficiency and minimize compliance risk by conducting gap analysis of business processes; and by scrutinising relevant monthly reports.
- Ensure delivery on projects by planning individual activities according to business needs and monitoring actions.
- Minimize overall business risks by engaging and obtaining stakeholders' view of where risks exists.
- Make an informed recommendation to stakeholders by evaluating identified risks and by conducting observations; analysing data and interviewing relevant parties.
- Foster good relationships and promote business understanding by engaging in effective communication with stakeholders.
- Monitor relevant legislative compliance status by receiving electronic feedback from Business Information Systems and communicating with the branches regarding actions to be taken.
- Ensure full understanding of changes on relevant legislative issues by conducting ad hoc training.
- Ensure that the recommended actions are taken by participating in external audit process and subsequently follow ups with relevant stakeholders.
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Post Graduate Degree, Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees- Type of Exposure- Coaching and mentoring others
- Identifying business risks
- Making legal decisions
- Assessing legal compliance
- Drafting legal agreements; opinions; letters
- Managing legal risks
- Networking and building relationships
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / managers
- Minimum Experience Level- 5 - 7 years experience as legal advisor
**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Banking knowledge
- Business Acumen
- Business principles
- Diversity management
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Legal Risk and practice management
- Nedbank culture and values
- Nedbank vision and strategy
- Regulatory, Legal and Economics Principles
- Research and development
- Stakeholder management
- Business writing skills
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- Behavioural Competencies- Communication
- Continuous Learning
- Decision Making
- Innovation
- Managing Work
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
+27 860 555 566
_
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