Legal Advisor : Client Agreements - Vryburg

Land Bank Careers; Vryburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial institution is seeking a Legal Advisor to provide comprehensive legal advice and manage legal risks related to business operations. The role involves ensuring compliance, managing external resources, and drafting/reviewing contracts. The ideal candidate will support branches with legal matters and contribute to the overall effectiveness of legal operations. This position aims to facilitate seamless legal processes to support business units while adhering to regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Provide legal advice and opinions to business units.
• Ensure legal compliance and manage legal risks.
• Draft and review client agreements and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage legal risks as per the Regionalisation model.
• Review conditions precedent for compliance and sign-off.
• Support branches with legal advisement.

Job description

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To provide legal advice, legal opinion and solutions and manage legal risks as per the Regionolisation model to business units and branches. The position is located within the Regions to ensure effective client support. The Legal Advisor will ensure legal compliance as well as manage the external resources and the draft and review of client agreements and contracts and other relevant legal matters. Review / checking of the conditions precedent to ensure compliance and sign off of same.