Head: Corporate Banking Legal

2 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**_Nedbank Recruiting_**

**Job Purpose**

To manage the Corporate Banking Legal team, to provide legal services and to monitor, manage and mitigate legal risk in Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking business.

**Responsibilities**:
Managed Financial and Business Results
- Ensure risks are mitigated by providing legal services to Corporate Banking with a particular focus on short term lending products and transactional; services Ensure claims and legal risks against Nedbank are adequately managed by supporting Group Legal Litigation by providing business specific legal input.

knowledge and expertise.

Managed Stakeholder Relationships
- Share knowledge and expertise within Group Legal and other stakeholders during management meetings, conferences and external stakeholders' engagements.
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with key stakeholders by becoming a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing guidance and support through formal and informal operational and strategic engagements.
- Ensure best practice services delivered to stakeholders by identifying legal problems, providing legal solutions, structuring and/or negotiating transactions.
- Protect Nedbank's interests and provide a competitive edge for Legal by representing Nedbank at related forums and providing expert input and guidance.

Managed and monitored legal risk
- Ensure optimal resourcing of function by assessing and monitoring resourcing requirements as per the operational business plans to ensure short - medium term plans (e.g. re-allocation of resources and skills across regions, leverage off expertise and knowledge) and business strategies are achieved nationally.
- Address obstacles and corrective action to be taken with team membersEnsure quality standards and best practices are met through assessing, monitoring and vetting of legal advice and/or opinions and the drafting of legal documentation delivered by managers and teams and take corrective action where required.
- Ensure delivery of legal risk management that meets business requirements by introducing legal best practice and ensuring that processes and/or standardised legal documentation are complied with.
- Ensure business objectives are achieved by managing corporate banking legal risks and identifying problems, structuring and negotiating transactions and ensuring timeous efficient delivery to each stakeholder group
- Ensure consistency in legal advice and/or resolving of legal problems are provided by ensuring service excellence Corporate Banking Legal and overseeing that all legal risks and incidences are reported, and advice documented.
- Improve business results and business processes by participating the various Risk Committees (ERCO) (as applicable) and reporting on and presenting legal risks and recommendations.

Managed Self and Team
- Manage performance of direct reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports by implementing performance agreements, ensuring a clear vision, agreeing on goals and objectives, providing regular feedback on performance, recognising and rewarding achievement and take appropriate corrective action where required.
- Build depth of skills and knowledge in the Corporate Banking Legal teams nationally by sharing knowledge and insight with team members during mentoring and day-to-day activities.

**Preferred Qualification**

Legal degree with LLB

**Essential Certifications**
- Admitted Attorney

**Type of Exposure**
- Managing a team of managers
- Identifying/select talent
- Managing business risks
- Communicating complex information in writing and verbally
- Negotiating settlements
- Litigating
- Managing legal risks
- Making financial decisions/
- Representing the company in Industry related forums
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / managers

**Minimum Experience Level**

10 - 12 years experience as an Attorney or Advocate, including litigation and commercial, 2 - 5 years experience in managing a team.

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Capacity planning
- Change management
- Communication Strategies
- Diversity management
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Legal Risk and practice management
- Legal Risk Methodology
- Litigation and dispute practice
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Reputational risk management
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms

**Behavioural Competencies**
- Building Partnerships
- Earning Trust
- Communication
- Continuous Learning
- Customer Focus
- Building talent

**Employment Equity Statement**

Preference will be given to individuals from underrepresented groups.
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
+27 860 555 566
_


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