Legal Officer

Details

Location: 

Johannesburg, ZA

Job Purpose

To effectively manage the back office administrative functions of the legal department and provide operational and administration support to the legal advisors; General Counsel Litigation and Chief Legal Advisor in order to assist them to fulfil their duties in line with their mandate.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc)
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes and support implementation of new processes.
• Ensure the correct issuing and remitting of invoices by receiving; checking accuracy; and getting them signed off and submit to accounts timeously.
• Ensure that targets are reached within service level agreements by administratively assisting and supporting the legal team in the fulfilment of their duties.
• Manage client expectations through responsiveness; professionalism; friendliness; receptiveness and availability when dealing with clients.
• Collaborate well and develop / maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders and their assistants; and all colleagues in generalthrough on-going communication.
• Thorough knowledge of applicable law: Intellectual Property: Relevant processes relating to Intellectual Property Law and administration.
• General legal enquiriesIntellectual Property: Timely and accurately attend to full spectrum of Trade Mark and other IP administration support e.g. capturing and circulating of reports; registers; lists; litigation schedules; projects etc. Maintaining updates of internal trade mark register on an ongoing basis.
• Liaising with attorneys.
• Thorough knowledge of applicable law: Court Processes: High Court and Magistrate Court rules; court documents and processes.
• General legal enquiries.
• Court Processes: Timely and correctly accepting and recording of all legal documents such as Summons; Notice of Motions; Subpoenas and Court orders.
• Timely and correctly allocating these documents to the appropriate legal advisor or department for action and confirming receipt and action.
• (Utilisation of NTE and Banking Platrorm to correctly allocate matters).
• Maintain accurate monthly statistical reports of court documents received.
• Providing administration support to legal advisors.
• General: Organise records and files through logical filing; keeping files up to date with relevant information; ensuring that files are maintained in a safe environment; are easily accessible; and electronically backed-up (physical and electronic files).
• Ensure availability and accuracy of information by updating and consolidating various reports.
• Compile meeting packs.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• 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.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions.
• Contribute to team success and team work by sharing knowledge with the team.

Essential Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

Preferred Qualification

• National Diploma in Law

Type of Exposure

• Working with clients to solve client problems
• Investigating and reviewing processes to improve client satisfaction
• Building and maintaining effective relationships externally and internally
• Collecting debt
• Negotiating settlements
• Integrating information from various HR database source
• Comparing two or more sets of information Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to a problem
• Working in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Working with spreadsheets
• Drafting legal agreements; opinions; letters

Minimum Experience Level

• 3-5 years Banking and or debt collection

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Administrative procedures and systems
• Banking knowledge
• Banking procedures
• Business terms and definitions
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Microsoft Office
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Legal knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Managing Work
• Building Partnerships
• Earning Trust
• Applied Learning
• Driving for results

Employment Equity Statement

Preference will be given to underrepresented groups