Job Description

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time.
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 To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the provision of sound legal consultation services.

• Leadership & Management: Understands and articulate the strategy/goals for the team and broader department
• Commercial: Good understanding of relevant products and services across Absa Group
• Risk and Control: Exercise sound risk judgement based on practice / previous experience and ensures, regulatory & statutory compliance. Have a broad understanding of key risks in other areas and partners with others to manage them
• Team work: Build strong relationships, especially with other colleagues across the franchise and help to develop working structures and best practice guides for use within business

Key Role Responsibilities

• On a daily basis compare and purify the outstanding commitment (unregistered home loans book) to ensure profitable net growth and initiate action where necessary.
• Ensure an acceptable registration turnaround time as determined by the Service Level Agreement (normal bonds, further advances and classified bonds.
• Measure attorney performance through monitoring of attorney scorecards.
• Build and maintain relationships with attorneys through telephonic contact and/or a physical visitation program.
• Ensure effective management in terms of of query/complaint resolution
• Assist the regional sales team with trend analysis on registrations and management of work - in progress matters
• End to end franchise support to the greater business

Education and Experience

• Minimum NQF 6 and preferred NQF 7 or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 -5 years in a similar environment/role
• Exposure (2-3 years) to attorneys and conveyancing environment

Preference will be given to Employment Equity (EE) candidates
Education
Bachelor Honours Degree: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised