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Legal Advisor II at FNB South Africa

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification Bachelors
  • Experience
  • Location Gauteng
  • City Randburg
  • Job Field Law / Legal 

Legal Advisor II at FNB South Africa

Legal Advisor II

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.
  • 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.
  • Monitoring compliance with legal and statutory requirements related to legal risks of the organisation.

We would love to see applicants who are:

  • Dynamic and thrive in a fast-paced environment and is driven by strategic delivery and a desire to create exceptional customer experiences.
  • Passionate about developing business cases to drive business decisions.
  • Excited to engage with cross-functional teams to understand and deliver business value.

Dare to imagine the change with us, if you are:

  • An adaptable problem solver who does not fear change but thrives on it
  • A disruptor in your field of Legal, and “using IT for Good” expertise
  • An initiative taker who identifies opportunity and delivers results
  • A strong collobarator
  • A nav-igator of the future 

We’ll make a good match if you’re:

  • Curious – you’re driven by always wanting to know more and learn more
  • Obsessed with mastery – you know what it takes to become great at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
  • Courageous – you’re brave enough to think and do things differently and are always ready to put your hand up and take ownership
  • A team player – you believe in the power of teams so you’re always part of one, building and leveraging your networks
  • Emotionally intelligent – you have a high EQ that enables you to truly connect with people, no matter how technical or specialist your role is

End Date: January 12, 2026

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to FNB South Africa on firstrand.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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