Position
Senior Legal Advisor
Details
Location:
Johannesburg, ZA
Date:
25 Oct 2025
Reference:
140774

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Specialist
REQ 140774 - Keabetswe Modise
Closing Date: 17 July 2025
Job Family
Risk, Audit and Compliance
Career Stream
Legal
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Professional
Job Purpose
To provide proactive professional legal advice and risk management services to internal clients to mitigate the banks legal risk.
Job Responsibilities Continue
- Experience in digital, consulting, software licensing, software development, SAAS and other cloud outsourcing transactions, IT support and maintenance contracts;
- Experience should be from an environment such as a law firm, private legal practice, or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in IT or other relevant industry;
- Proven contracting history where you have been the lead negotiator;
- Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions
- Experience negotiating technology-based arrangements
- Demonstrable ability to independently manage drafting and reviewing of transactional documents and correspondence
- Able to present alternatives and propose solutions to issues, and must be sufficiently skilled,
- Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills;
- Ability to work independently as well as part of various IT technical teams;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills;
- Proficient in MS Office suite of products
- Experience in a multi-jurisdictional environment with knowledge of cross-border transactions will be advantageous
- Experience across a broad range of different disciplines/legal areas will be advantageous
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Post Graduate Degree , Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Minimum Experience Level
- 5 - 7 years experience as legal advisor
- Must have at least 5 years experience in Tech/Digital Law
- Manage Tech Legal Risk
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Banking knowledge
- Business Acumen
- Business principles
- Diversity management
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Legal Risk and practice management
- Nedbank culture and values
- Nedbank vision and strategy
- Regulatory, Legal and Economics Principles
- Research and development
- Stakeholder management
- Business writing skills
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
Behavioural Competencies
- Communication
- Continuous Learning
- Decision Making
- Innovation
- Managing Work
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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