Senior Legal Advisor

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ 137777- Tshego Semenya

Location: Sandton

Closing date: 6 February 2025

Cluster

RBB

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Position

Senior Legal Advisor

Why join our team

This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive team environment, providing exposure to a wide range of legal matters within the home loans sector. You will have significant career growth opportunities within Nedbank, be involved in high-impact projects and initiatives, and enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Job Purpose

To provide proactive professional legal advice and risk management services to internal clients to mitigate the bank's legal risk, with a specific focus on home loans.  Further, to provide legal support for all Nedbank branches.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the Retail Homeloans portfolio from a legal perspective, this will include supporting all divisions of the Homeloans team, for example Sales, Credit and Recoveries.  
• Provide legal advice and support specifically in the area of home loans.
• Handle queries from conveyancers and make ultimate decisions on conveyancing matters.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements, particularly in the banking sector.
• Foster good relationships and promote business understanding by engaging in effective communication with stakeholders.
• Keeping up to date with legal developments and conveying same to the Homeloans business community.
• Conducting ad hoc training for Business and other stakeholders.
• Achieve goals and objectives by understanding and embracing the Nedbank vision and demonstrating the Nedbank values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in the field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression opportunities for self with input from management.
• Support personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience gained and certifications obtained within specified time frames.
• Maintain knowledge management and improve team success by sharing knowledge with team and stakeholders.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives.
• Achieve key business strategies by participating and supporting corporate social responsibility initiatives.
• Add value to Nedbank by identifying and recommending opportunities to enhance processes, systems, and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies, and systems.

Minimum Experience Level

• 8 years post-admission experience, with at least 2 years in a banking environment or working with banking matters.
• Preferably 1 year +Conveyancing experience

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• (LL.B) Post Graduate Degree

Essential Certifications

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

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