Legal Advisor

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**
- REQ 127506- Tshego Semenya**Cluster**
- Group Risk**Career Stream**
- Legal
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional

**Position**
- Legal Advisor - Competition Law & Regulatory Risk Advisory**Job Purpose**
- To provide legal advise to business unit to mitigate risk to Nedbank.

**Responsibilities**:

- 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
- 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
- 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
- Minimum Experience Level- 2 - 4 years post articles experience or 4-6 years legal regulatory advisory experience with a specialization in competition law
- Drafting commentary in respect to industry documents and present same to regulators
- Experience in or exposure to dealing at senior level.
- High level knowledge of corporate and legal operating environments, and a commercially and business minded person operating at a senior level in a business/commercial environment.
- Strong Competition Law & working knowledge of regulatory risk environments applicable to banking and financial regulation, corporate and commercial law, competition and anti-trust law and data protection and privacy laws.
- Preferably having worked in a law firm or practiced as an advocate.
- Practical financial services experience in working on competition law related matters with demonstrated deep specialisation in this area of law
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- Preferred Qualification- Legal Degree (LLB degree) Bachelor of Arts: Law

**Preferred Certifications**
- Certifications or additional qualification in regulatory risk advisory

**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 / subordinates / managers

**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

**Disclaimer**

**_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_**
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_

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