Legal Advisor: Innovation Risk needed at Capitec Bank

What will you do

• Provide legal advice to all departments and entities.
• Managing the legal risks for all legal advice to all the departments and entities.
• Handling a variety of legal matters, ranging from moderate to complex matters and projects.
• Acts as counsel on issues involving company compliance, with complex governmental and regulatory issues, including the drafting of legal opinions where necessary.
• Reviews legal documentation and agreements and provides advice on appropriate action as well as being involved in negotiation of all legal issues in relation to such documentation.
• Draft agreements and suites of agreements, including client facing agreements and documents of a legal nature and legal agreements from moderate to complex when the incumbent deems this to be necessary.
• Interact and liaise with industry role players, e.g. the Payments Association of South Africa (“PASA”) and the Banking Association of South Africa (“BASA”).
• Management of litigation against and by the Bank.

What will you bring

• 5 – 6 years’ experience in banking and/or commercial law and/or Information Technology is essential
• Admitted Attorney
• Bachelor’s Degree in Law or Commerce
• Banking Law
• Commercial Law
• Banking systems

Ideal:

• National Payment Systems Act
• Electronic Communication and Transactions Act (ECT)
• IT Law
• E-Commerce