Legal Advisor

1 week ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time R450 000 - R900 000 per year

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant

REQ Thembi Mtshali

Location: Johannesburg

Closing Date: 24 October 2025

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.

Job Responsibilities


• Manage the whole value chain of Nedbank's court processes.


• Assist to prepare all legal reports.


• Assist senior legal advisors with all litigation matters.


• Manage all litigation invoices.


• Ensure continued satisfaction of stakeholders by meeting turnaround times for requests and identifying and addressing issues or concerns through the provision of risk advice.


• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).


• Legal Research


• Seek opportunities to improve business processes; models and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.


• Optimize 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.


• Meet internal stakeholder requirements by providing governance, policy and advisory services.


• Report on the risk management process and litigation matters by generating and presenting risk reports.


• Provide advice by responding to ad hoc risk requests and queries.


• 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 interaction. Obtain 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 Qualification

  • Relevant Law Degree

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

Disclaimer

Preference Recruiting Team at will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank.

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