Stanbic Bank,Senior Legal Manager Jobs in Botswana

Job
description

Stanbic
Bank is currently seeking individuals with good leadership and interpersonal
skills, excellent written and oral communications skills, strategic thinkers,
assertive, innovative, socially-confident, results and service-oriented
personalities for the following positions at Stanbic Bank Botswana:

Stanbic Bank is
continuously
striving for service excellence and market supremacy and we are
Committed to making a real difference in the provision of financial services in
Botswana. The Bank values its people and maintains a challenging and inspiring
environment for teamwork, with abundant opportunities for growth and rewards
for innovation and high performance. If you have the energy, the drive and the
passion, then you are the person Stanbic Bank is looking for.

SENIOR LEGAL
MANAGER

Requirements

The Bank is looking
for a seasoned, dynamic, highly-driven Legal Executive with strong leadership
skills to undertake the role Senior Legal Manager. The incumbent will be
responsible for rendering comprehensive legal advice on all agreements with
emphasis on drafting, reviewing, negotiating and approving for execution legal
documents in transactional matters including commercial contracts, operating
agreements, lease management contracts and all manner of transactional
documentation. The incumbent will also be responsible for litigation management
and oversight.

Further to this, the
Senior Legal Manager will be tasked with the Preparation of legal agreements,
regularisation of any non-standard Credit documentation to ensure adherence
with Credit sanction and policy, ensure compliance with all relevant laws,
regulations and bank policies and procedures,where required provide guidance to
Credit Evaluation team in respect of conditions of sanction required for
mitigation of credit and risk.

In addition, the
incumbent will be responsible for the provision of legal advice and opinions on
Credit related matters, e.g. Credit impact of legislation, policy, collections
etc, signing-off of new products or product amendments from a Credit legal
perspective in line with procedures, drafting of non standard agreements and
other Credit/ transactional legal documentation.

The incumbent will
be expected to serve the needs of clients as business partners by providing
value added legal services such as counselling clients on regulatory and
general business considerations, and advising management regarding legal risks
and exposures.

Key to the
incumbents deliverable is the provision of accurate, expert and specialist
legal advice to business partners (that is, Credit and business units and
related business units), including the identification, research, interpretation
and evaluation of information, assist business partners with the preparation of
agreements including standard English credit agreements for the domestic market
(“credit agreements”) and/or credit legal documentation, contracts and/or
specialised or non-standard collateral.

To be considered for
this position, you will need an appropriate legal qualification (BA / BCom LLB
/ BProc LLB), be admitted as an Attorney, understand business principles and
processes in CIB, including the legal environment in which CIB operates, be
computer literate.

The incumbent should
have at least 3-4 years’ post qualification experience in a similar
environment.

Closing
date and application instructions