Time left to apply: End Date: October 23, 2024 (7 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: R22499
Job Description Hello Future Legal Advisor,
RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values and innovative ideas, it's the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart. Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa's number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
Are you someone who can: Provide advice to the leadership team across the range of the business area's legal interests, risks, and obligations. Contribute to legal assurance perspective to the business area's strategic and governance processes, particularly the executive decision-making process. Provide professional legal services which may include sound legal advice, expert drafting of legal documentation, managing disputes, and managing of legal projects. Report to business area management on legal matters. Evaluate the merit of potentially litigious disputes and consult with the relevant stakeholders to protect the interests of the business area. Identify emerging legal risks and ensure training on legal risk management takes place. Provide comments on emerging legislation that impacts business area. Report on legal risk management in the business area; seeking input and guidance on more complex ambiguous issues. Provide insight into the strategy for the business area and add value to decision-making processes alongside other business area managers. Drive the implementation of strategic objectives to sustain action towards the achievement of both organisational and the legal function objectives. Add value to the development and implementation of internal controls, policies and guidelines for the legal function and specific business area, ensuring their alignment to functional objectives and statutory requirements. Conduct medium to long-term planning, making decisions and taking action to achieve challenging goals and deliver on multiple complex tasks. Provide legal expertise to develop innovative and relevant technology requirements in order to drive the optimisation of work output. Use digitisation effectively to work smarter, more efficiently and accurately on document reviews, reporting, effective filing of matters and sharing of information with peers. Understand the business unit goals and consider same when executing transactions in an effective, efficient manner through the utilisation of technology and simplified processes. Provide guidance and mentoring to junior legal advisers and direct reports. Stay up to date in all developments in the law in relation to his/her areas of legal practice. Comply with all professional and ethical standards relevant to in-house legal advisers. Monitor, analyse and evaluate the impact and legal implications of developments in the industry and related areas, including the activities of competitors, and pro-actively work with the Legal Centres of Expertise and recommend effective courses of action so that either a stance may be adopted, or potential threats may be averted. Monitor compliance with legal and statutory requirements related to legal risks of the organisation. You will be an ideal candidate if you: Have a minimum BA/BCom Law Degree with LLB or LLB Degree; Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Have a minimum of 3 years post articles working experience in a Project Finance environment. You will have access to: Opportunities to network and collaborate. Challenging working environment. Opportunities to innovate. We can be a match if you are: Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to. Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it. Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now! Job Details Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below. 23/10/24
All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.
About Us A leading corporate and investment bank in South Africa and the broader Africa continent, RMB offers large corporate and institutional clients innovative, value-added advisory, funding, trading, corporate banking and principal investing solutions. RMB's talent is expected to be high performing whilst fixing for real-world challenges such as funding the green economy through sustainable finance transactions; unlocking transformation with innovative BEE deals; providing financial and strategic support to management teams in the unlisted sector; financing infrastructure that will uplift economies and improve the lives of millions of people – all of this is about thinking big.
If you are invested in making a difference on a serious scale, RMB is where you should build your career and explore new ways to contribute to a better world.
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