Lead Specialist: Legal

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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Our Absa Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) Legal team has an exciting role for a Lead Specialist: Legal Counsel in IBD Legal.

In this role you will contribute to management by identifying and mitigating legal risks across its Debt business in South Africa and where applicable or required across the continent. You will be expected to provide accurate, expert and specialised legal advice on legal and regulatory matters and be involved in the structuring of leverage and acquisition finance transactions in line with the relevant and general banking practices, procedures and regulations. You will also be a key point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the business team, and responsible for providing on the go pro-active legal advice, support and risk management.

**Job Description**:
Accountability: Management of Legal Risks
- Effective management of legal risk and continuously improve controls and efficiency of processes (consistent and proactive approach)
- Identify opportunities to develop new processes to strengthen the legal risk control framework.
- Manage, evaluate and prioritise tasks in accordance with business needs
- Communicate and distil legal concepts to the business function, ensuring that lessons learned are communicated both within and outside the IBD Legal team environment
- Ensure effective and appropriate verbal and written communication of the legal policies to internal clients.
- Proactive monitoring of compliance to the legal risk control framework.
- Immediately report/escalate any breach of the legal risk control framework to the Head of IBD Legal.
- Identification of risk events and accurate and clear reporting as per reporting/escalation line.
- Display knowledge of regulatory requirements including updates and changes.

Accountability: Advisory and opinions
- Ensure technical correctness of documents drafted by ensuring that the latest legal precedents have been included in the documents. This is done by doing regular research on legal developments and attending training interventions.
- To provide concise, accurate, timely legal advice to internal stakeholders.
- To provide legally sound solutions to business challenges.
- Have a good understanding of the financial and banking environment to be able to ensure that financial and business requirements are correctly incorporated in the documents.
- Ensure that all risks are sufficiently addressed in agreements entered by the bank; understanding the requirements of business, legal issues and possible business risks and incorporating clauses in the agreements to address such risks and requirements.
- At all times ensure that sufficient legal knowledge has been obtained and updated with latest legal developments to ensure that they are correctly reflected in the agreements drafted.
- Where relevant, ensure that all terms and conditions in approved term sheets or templates are incorporated in the necessary legal agreements by checking the term sheet against the legal agreement.

Accountability: Negotiate, draft and review Agreements.
- Assist in structuring, negotiating, drafting and vetting of legal agreements and documentation relating to standard agreements, transactions and new products.
- Help to develop working structures and best practice guides for use within business
- Address all probable risks by seeing to it that they are sufficiently addressed in legal agreements drafted.
- Consider, comment, draft, vet, negotiate and give advice on documents / agreements for the business including but not limited to term sheets, mandate letters, expressions of interest and letters of support, security documentation, guarantees and indemnities and primary lending facility documentation in respect of both bilateral and syndicated transactions.
- Give legal advice on transactions or deals to be done, or transactions that have been concluded.
- Review, comment and advise on legal due diligence.
- Provide advice on legality, the lawfulness and enforceability of agreements and documents.
- To take principal responsibility for drafting and periodically reviewing Standard Terms or template documentation, in particular to deal with legal risk trends and opportunities to prevent recurrence and to improve business performance and recoveries.

Accountability: Stakeholder Management
- To build relationships with key senior stakeholders within the legal and business functions across the Bank and become a trusted advisor.
- To be the preferred partner for business stakeholders on all legal matters.
- Deliver superior client service and top quality service delivery by focusing on:

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