- 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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