Senior Legal Counsel: Regulatory and Privacy

• Provide highly specialised legal advice on data privacy, data protection, regulatory and financial-crime matters

• Review and legally assess Privacy Impact Assessments, compliance assessments, new products, projects, technologies and data-use arrangements

• Advise on novel data use, sharing, disclosure, retention and cross-border transfer across the Bank, Group and ARO

• Draft, review and negotiate data protection provisions, DPAs, data sharing agreements, consent wording and privacy notices

• Independently manage a broad portfolio of matters from instruction to completion; manage external counsel and legal spend

• Partner Risk, Compliance and control functions to identify, manage and mitigate legal risk

• Monitor domestic and international privacy and regulatory developments and communicate business impact and actions

• Represent the Bank at internal committees, governance forums and industry engagements; deliver legal training

• LLB (BCom Law/BA Law/BJuris + LLB, BProc or LLB); admitted attorney qualified to practise in South Africa

• Ideally 5–8 years’ relevant post-qualification experience

• Substantial hands-on data privacy and data protection experience, including drafting and negotiating DPAs (essential)

• Deep expertise in POPIA and international data protection law; financial-services and market-conduct/financial-crime experience advantageous

• Multi-jurisdiction (African) advisory experience advantageous

• Excellent legal analysis, drafting, negotiation and stakeholder-influencing skills