Legal Advisor

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Job Description

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant
REQ 142332 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Relevent 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 +27 860 555 566will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups
Please contact the Nedbank.
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

Skills Required

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1557643
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned