Legal Advisor - Litigation

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

124004 - Tshegofatso Semenya

Closing Date: 17 February 2023

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

• 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 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.

People Specification

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

Disclaimer

Preference may be given to suitably qualified and appointable applicants for underrepresented groups.

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566