Legal Advisor II

Job Description

Hello future Legal Advisor II

Welcome to the home where Help Changes Everything— and bold ideas and extraordinary people shape the future.

For over 180 years, FNB has thrived on change, designing for the visionaries, the shapeshifters, and those who dare to reimagine what’s possible.

It’s not about the hours clocked but impact made. Our agile teams move fast, think big, and create with purpose—because in an ever-changing world, help does change everything.

Are you ready to navigate the future with us?

At nav» from FNB, our internal community is cross-functional and prides itself on intentional collaboration, where experts come together and ignite effective change. We call these changeables our nav-igators. As nav-igators, we are made up of unique talents, diverse minds, adaptability and live up to the promise of staying curious. nav» is known for its lead in innovative platform solutions to better our customers’ experience. At nav», you are encouraged to imagine the change, to share your ideas openly and to navigate the reality of our customers everyday needs.

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

You’ll benefit from our changeable benefits like: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Work that is challenging
• Space to make a difference
• Conditions that are flexible
• Opportunities to innovate
• Focus on health and wellbeing (onsite wellness center and gym at our main campus to innovative employee wellbeing and financial fitness programmes)
• Resources to help you with your professional development
• Generous leave policy
• Inspiring work environment
• Preferential employee banking rates

When it comes to learning and development, we encourage our nav-igators to expand their knowledge, on their own, with others, in person or online. As for our workspace, it is immersive, collaborative, and energetic because at FNB, innovation is our lifeblood and change in our DNA.

You’ll excel with:

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent legal qualification.
• Completed articles
• Minimum [6] years of post-qualification experience in a corporate legal advisory role.
• Strong understanding of commercial law, regulatory frameworks, and risk management.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• A passion for taking ideas and making them real 
• Innovation part of your DNA, you're a disruptor and risk taker 

Are you sold yet?

Imagine the change, apply now and let your imagination shape the world around us

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Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

12/01/26