Head: Legal Client Agreements & Advisory

Job Advert Summary

Manages and implements the legal risk capabilities across the Land Bank, creates frameworks and plans to support legal capability. To create and manage the corporate and commercial legal capability that is recognised as a valuable and strategic partner to support the business of the Bank.

To effectively support the Land Bank Corporate Plan with sound legal advice and support operations thereby maximising returns on investment and business growth through:

• Provide end to end transactional legal support to all business units of the Bank, including conducting legal due diligence investigations and reviews and/or ensure that, inter alia, the legal due diligence is conducted, drafting of legal agreements post approval of transactions is done on time. Provide legal advice, legal opinions, and legal solutions to business units of the Bank.
• Manage stakeholder relationships (internal and external) and ensure client satisfaction at all times.
• Develop and review from time to time standard legal templates to improve business efficiencies.
• Participate and provide legal input/advise in investment committees of the Bank.
• Manage costs and exposure for the Bank.

Key Performance Areas

1. Develops and Implements the framework and plan for Legal obligations and capability as aligned to the Corporate plan for the Land Bank

• In alignment with the corporate plan develops, implements and maintains the corporate and commercial legal framework and approach.
• Provide inputs on defining relevant Commercial Legal frameworks to be implemented across the Bank.
• Contribute to long terms strategy for the Bank and alignment of all activities undertaken to the overall business strategy from a legal perspective.
• Enforcement of adherence to legal frameworks and dealing with non-compliance.

2. Develops policies, processes and procedures to support operational Planning and Excellence with regards to legal capability across the Land Bank

• Develop and review legal documents and standardise templates.
• Develop and review policies and procedures.
• Monitor compliance with policies and procedures.
• Conduct ongoing research, maintaining current knowledge of changes in legal frameworks and developments in the industry including from technical, operational and legal aspects.

3. Commercial Legal Support

• Support functional areas of the business, proactively identify legal risks/issues that could arise and provide commercial legal advice to executive management and staff on these issues.
• Provide legal advice across the Land Bank and deploy legal advisors to deal with specific matters and issues.
• Oversee compliance with law in all fields.
• Oversee legal recommendations delivered by legal advisors to their respective internal customers.

4. Specialized Finance Legal Expertise

• Provide a wide range of specialised finance legal advice and solutions to business, covering inter-alia, the following areas:
• acquisition finance
• structured trade and commodity finance
• asset finance
• corporate finance
• project finance

5. Monitoring & Reporting

• Manco reporting – detailed reports on legal transactions and various projects.
• ExCo reporting – high level reporting on specific legal transactions and projects.
• Quarterly business reports ensure the maintenance of the system and recommend enhancements on the system.
• Complete monthly audit assessment to ensure all required documentation/agreement/correspondence is in place to facilitate a clean audit result.

6. Management of Stakeholder Relationships

Supplier Relationship Management

• Manage and liaise with external attorneys who support Land Bank.
• Provide input in relation to establishment of panel of attorneys and SLA with the law firms.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and manage solid relationships with customers (both internal and external).
• Understand customer needs and develop and fine-tune legal systems accordingly in order to satisfy needs and requirements.
• Ensure customer needs and requirements are satisfied through having the appropriate systems, processes and procedures in place to be able to meet them efficiently and effectively.

Internal Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Regional Allocation: Engage Regional Heads; Provincial Heads; Head: CB&SI and Head: Workout & Restructuring to manage expected legal support with regards to client agreements and advisory services.
• Resolve any performance issues and client portfolio allocations.
• Develop an internal service level agreement and monitor performance against the SLA.

7. Departmental and People Management

Performance Management

• Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets.
• Compile the Performance Management documentation in collaboration with the staff member in terms of:
• Job Profile requirements.

Capacity Planning

• Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
• Secure the human capital requirements to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.
• Set and achieve employment equity targets.

Financial Management

• Develop and manage budget.
• Manage expenditure and ensure no fruitless expenditure.
• Adhere to financial guidelines and thus ensure proper control over expenditure.
• Pursue divisional targets and manage the financial health and stability of division.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• Year LLB degree or equivalent qualification.
• Admission as an attorney/advocate (if Advocate, having served pupillage).
• 8 years corporate & commercial law experience at a senior level in the banking and finance industry.
• 8 years legal practice experience.

Critical Competencies

• Legislation.
• Policies and Procedures.
• Business Environment.
• Deal Structuring.
• Legal Risk Management.
• Conveyancing.
• Banking and Finance Principles.
• Corporate and Commercial legal principles.

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge of PFMA.
• Knowledge of Land Bank Act.