Specialist: Legal, Risk & Compliance

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Sandton, Sandown, Johannesburg, Gauteng
In-Office
Financial Services
The Role
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 sound legal advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the provision of legal risk management for the business.

Job Description

Accountability: Legal Risk

  • Continued pro-active stakeholder engagement and involvement on a business level
  • Ensure commercially and legally sound guidance and advice in respect of allocated regulatory requirements in a professional and supportive manner; always considering the potential alternatives within the rules and regulations applicable, endeavouring to find solutions to ensure lawfulness and compliance as well as the continuation of business

Accountability: Commercial

  • Provide tailored, commercial advice as well as recommendations on legality, the lawfulness and enforceability of agreements and documents
  • Good understanding of relevant products and services across AGL and assist in structuring, negotiating and drafting legal agreements and documentation

Accountability:  Risk and Control

  • Exercise sound risk judgement based on practice / previous experience and ensures, legal risk management
  • Have a broad understanding of key risks in other areas and partners with others to manage and address them

Accountability: Teamwork

  • Build strong relationships especially with other colleagues in legal and business stakeholders
  • Assist to develop working structures and best practice guides for use within business 

Accountability: Technical

  • Demonstrate a thorough understanding of areas of specialisation and consider, comment, draft negotiate and give advice and guidance on documents/ agreements for the business.

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

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The Company
HQ: Johannesburg
39,055 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.

We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.

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