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. 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.

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

• 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

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate

• 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

23/10/24