Senior Legal Counsel

7 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

CIB Legal is currently looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to be part of the Commercial Property Finance (CPF) legal team. This role entails the management, identification and mitigation of legal risks in the CPF business across the African continent. A successful applicant for this position will be expected to provide accurate, expert and specialised legal advice on the structuring of CPF transactions, create tactical strategy and delivery plans and procedures to ensure efficient operational implementation of transactions. The role will be a key point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the CPF business team.

**Job Description**:
Accountability: Legal Risk
- To provide highly specialised legal advice and support to the dedicated area of support.

Accountability: Leadership & Management
- Demonstrates strong relationship management skills with clients
- Plan and manage projects and matters through to completion, including resourcing
- Contribute to the development and implementation of team objectives and strategy and provide high quality support to the business as required by interacting with different legal and business stakeholders.
- Work independently with mínimal supervision and demonstrate the ability to supervise where appropriate

Accountability: Commercial
- Demonstrate strong analytical skills and solve complex problems creatively and effectively
- Drives good cost control behaviour, especially around external spend and consistently deliver against a broad range of competing target
- Manage external counsel and represent AGL on relevant industry forums and professional bodies where required
- Add value in commercial as well as technical discussions, and provide training that is beneficial / informative to internal clients

Accountability: Risk and Control
- Actively raise the profile of the legal function and improve on Legal Key Risks
- Manage and create awareness by embedding legal policies and control requirements in all areas of the business
- Provide appropriate challenge and equally be robust in the face of challenges
- Build strong risk partnerships with colleagues in other functions (especially key control areas)
- Fully understand the role of legal in AGL and how it interacts with other functions and the business.

Accountability: Teamwork:

- Proactively collaborates across different teams and geographies within Legal to break down silos
- Provide objective and constructive feedback and openly shares knowledge and expertise

Accountability: Technical
- Acts as a trusted advisor to business and other infrastructure areas; understands market and legal developments and their impact on business
- Contribute to industry-wide initiatives and have a good network amongst peer group externally

Education

Bachelor Honours Degree: Law, Military Science and Security (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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