Legal Advisor

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition Number and Talent Aquisition Contact**
- REQ:

- **131248**
- Location: Sandton, Johannesburg- Closing Date: 30 January 2024- Talent Acquisition:

- **Saranya Govender**
- Job Family- Risk, Audit and Compliance
- Career Stream- Legal
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional

**Job Purpose**
- To provide legal advise to business unit to mitigate risk to Nedbank.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build and sustain business relations to ensure satisfied internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure continued satisfaction of stakeholders by meeting turnaround times for requests and identifying and addressing issues or concerns through the provision of risk advice.
- Optimise new product development policy execution by ensuring alignment between all stakeholders and relevant business processes.
- Manage stakeholder expectations by providing management information; risk analytics; insights and strategic motivation resulting in the optimal management of these risk disciplines.
- Participate in and provide advice to board; Executive Committee; Management Committee and sub committees on governance; regulatory; procedural and practice matters by attending; preparing and submitting papers; challenging and monitoring.
- Manage the relationship between Old Mutual and Nedbank Group to ensure alignment and embedding by Nedbank Group of Old Mutual policies and the Group Operating Manual.
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
- Research and provide training to staff on risk.
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes; models and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
- Optimise the risk management performance of Nedbank Group by assisting business to identify; recommend (through reporting; insights and risk analytics) and execute risk management strategies within the Group's defined risk appetite.
- Provide risk advice to assist and enable business to achieve its risk objectives by developing ;managing and executing policies; procedures; practices of a risk nature.
- Provide strategic recommendations that are well supported through insights to relevant decision making body to improve risk management processes and practices.
- Manage risk by developing mandates for an effective risk management structure.
- Meet internal stakeholder requirements by providing governance; policy and advisory services.
- Report on the risk management process by generating and presenting risk reports.
- Ensure the requirements of risk; governance and compliance are addressed by embedding a risk culture within Nedbank.
- Provide advice by responding to ad hoc risk requests and queries.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned.
- Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers.
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
- Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interactionObtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- Preferred Qualification- Bachelor of Arts: Law, Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- Minimum Experience Level- 2 - 4 years post articles experience

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Business principles
- Business writing
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Nedbank culture and values
- Nedbank policies and procedures
- Nedbank vision and strategy
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Stakeholder management
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- Behavioural Competencies- Communication
- Decision Making
- Managing Work
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Continuous Learning
- Innovation
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_

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