LEGAL ADVISOR - BARCLAYS BANK OF BOTSWANA

Unique opportunity to take your career to the next level

Barclays Bank of Botswana has exciting career opportunities for a high performing and self-driven individuals various functions. We are looking to fill the following positions.

Legal Advisor

Overall Job Purpose

• Reporting principally to Legal Counsel to provide legal support to Botswana
• To assist in identifying and managing legal risk in Botswana, liaising directly with the business as appropriate
• To provide company secretarial support to BBB and its subsidiaries and to assist Group Company Secretaries in monitoring and compliance of policies and the provision of high level information

Requirements

Main Accountabilities

• Company Secretarial
• Management & Financial Information Management
• Service Management
• Leadership

Experience and Qualifications

• Attorney (or equivalent)
• 5 years PQE
• Management; experience of direct/indirect reports
• Experience of a significant number of those areas of business law relevant to Barclays Africa Strategic Business Unit (SBU) namely Company Law, lending, products litigation, employment law, commercial contracts
• Understanding of SBU’s strategy, business and markets
• Strong technical legal ability
• Knowledge of Financial Services sector
• Understanding of Barclays Group strategy, business & markets
• Wide experience and full understanding of legal risk management
• Wide experience of a significant number of those areas of business law relevant to Barclays Africa Strategic Business Unit (SBU) namely Company Law, lending, products litigation, employment law, and commercial contracts.
• Company secretarial, compliance and investor relations

Closing date and application instructions

To view a full profile of the job including job requirements/competencies, and to apply follow the link;

https://barclays.taleo.net/careersection/2/moresearch.ftl?lang=en_GB

Please note that we do not accept hard copies of applications and only short listed candidates will be responded to.

Closing date: 25 April 2016