200 Legal Compliance jobs in South Africa

Role Title : Legal Compliance Specialist

Client Summary :

Our client is a leading entity in the retail sector committed to maintaining rigorous standards of compliance and risk management. They have a reputation for fostering a dynamic and ethical workplace prioritizing both innovation and integrity.

Job Description :

Are you a dedicated and professional legal expert looking to make a significant impact in the compliance landscape Join our client as a Legal Compliance Specialist where you will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with legislative and regulatory standards. This position offers opportunities for growth and the chance to drive meaningful change by integrating compliance into the core strategy of the organization.

Responsibilities :

Ensure ongoing compliance with applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.

Assist with assurance and compliance with King 4.

Draft and update risk ratings and compliance management plans focusing on laws such as FAIS Insurance TCF FSRA POPIA CPA EPR ESG and FICA.

Provide compliance advice for laws in Botswana and Zambia.

Liaise with internal and external auditors regarding compliance.

Develop compliancerelated training and awareness programs.

Maintain and report on a legislative risk register.

Monitor customer complaints systems and external complaints.

Manage and submit reports and financials to relevant regulators.

Assist with compliance reports to board committees and manage a team of compliance assistants.

Requirements :

LLB qualification and admitted attorney status.

Compliance qualification from a recognized institution (e.g. UCT / CISA).

Key Individual exam qualification and registered compliance officer for a Category 1 FSP.

Minimum 5 years post articles experience with 3 years in compliance.

Skills :

Excellent communication and relationshipbuilding skills.

Ability to apply law practically and stand ground in necessary situations.

Enthusiasm for digital compliance innovation.

Required Experience :

Unclear Seniority

Key Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Compliance Specialist • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

My client in GQ, is seeking to email a Legal and Compliance Lead to join their company. 

We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Legal & Compliance Lead to oversee and manage all legal, regulatory, and compliance matters across the organization. This individual will play a critical role in contract management, credit oversight, dispute resolution, legislative compliance, and insurance governance.

Duties include: 
1. Legal Contracts Management
Draft, negotiate, and review all internal and external legal contracts.
Ensure all contracts comply with current legal and regulatory frameworks.
Standardize contract templates across business units to streamline legal reviews.
2. Legal Dispute Management
Act as the lead in managing and resolving legal disputes, whether commercial, operational, or employment-related.
Liaise with external counsel when necessary.
Maintain a risk register of legal exposures and active matters.
3. Credit Risk Oversight
Serve as the final reviewer and approver of all credit applications.
Set legal criteria and frameworks for assessing customer and partner creditworthiness.
Work closely with the finance and operations teams to ensure robust credit practices.
4. Insurance Governance
Oversee the insurance claims process from initiation to resolution.
Review and maintain adequate insurance coverage for all business operations and assets.
Liaise with brokers and insurers to ensure optimal policies and claims handling.
5. Legislative & Regulatory Compliance
Ensure full compliance with all applicable South African laws and industry regulations
Conduct regular compliance audits and training sessions for staff.
Maintain compliance registers and submit reports as required.

Minimum Requirements: 
LLB or equivalent legal degree; admission as an attorney is advantageous.
Minimum 5–10 years’ experience in legal, compliance, or risk management roles.
Strong knowledge of South African commercial, corporate, and regulatory law.
Prior experience handling insurance, credit, and regulatory matters in a corporate or financial setting.

Reference: SSC000564-AK-1
A well-established public entity is seeking to appoint a Temp Legal & Compliance Practitioner.

Qualifications and Experience:

• LLB degree.
• Minimum 5 years post-admission experience.
• Admission as an attorney or advocate of the High Court (admitted legal practitioner).
• Experience in drafting and vetting a variety of complex agreements.
• Advanced knowledge of SCM legislation, policies, and processes applicable in the public sector or entity.
• Positive attitude.
• Innovative thinking skills.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Knowledge of legal platforms.
• Compliance Management will be an added advantage.

Please note that if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application, your application was unsuccessful.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Job Description

Accountability: Legal Risk

• Continued pro-active stakeholder engagement and involvement on a business level
• Ensure commercially and legally sound guidance and advice in respect of allocated regulatory requirements in a professional and supportive manner; always considering the potential alternatives within the rules and regulations applicable, endeavouring to find solutions to ensure lawfulness and compliance as well as the continuation of business

Accountability: Commercial

• Provide tailored, commercial advice as well as recommendations on legality, the lawfulness and enforceability of agreements and documents
• Good understanding of relevant products and services across AGL and assist in structuring, negotiating and drafting legal agreements and documentation

Accountability: Risk and Control

• Exercise sound risk judgement based on practice / previous experience and ensures, legal risk management
• Have a broad understanding of key risks in other areas and partners with others to manage and address them

Accountability: Teamwork

• Build strong relationships especially with other colleagues in legal and business stakeholders
• Assist to develop working structures and best practice guides for use within business

Accountability: Technical

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of areas of specialisation and consider, comment, draft negotiate and give advice and guidance on documents/ agreements for the business.

Education

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

To provide sound legal advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the provision of legal risk management for the business.

Job Description

Accountability: Legal Risk

• Continued pro-active stakeholder engagement and involvement on a business level
• Ensure commercially and legally sound guidance and advice in respect of allocated regulatory requirements in a professional and supportive manner; always considering the potential alternatives within the rules and regulations applicable, endeavouring to find solutions to ensure lawfulness and compliance as well as the continuation of business
  
  

• Provide tailored, commercial advice as well as recommendations on legality, the lawfulness and enforceability of agreements and documents
• Good understanding of relevant products and services across AGL and assist in structuring, negotiating and drafting legal agreements and documentation
  
  

• Exercise sound risk judgement based on practice / previous experience and ensures, legal risk management
• Have a broad understanding of key risks in other areas and partners with others to manage and address them
  
  

• Build strong relationships especially with other colleagues in legal and business stakeholders
• Assist to develop working structures and best practice guides for use within business
  
  

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of areas of specialisation and consider, comment, draft negotiate and give advice and guidance on documents/ agreements for the business.
  
  

• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Legal
• Industries Banking and Financial Services

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• Bachelor’s degree in law or equivalent.
• 2 - 3 years related experience.
• Computer literate.

• General duties associated with legal compliance.
• Implement and manage an effective legal compliance program.
• Develop and review University policies to ensure legal compliance.
• Advise management on the University’s compliance with laws and regulations through detailed reports.
• Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
• Assess University operations to determine compliance risk.
• Ensure all employees are educated on the latest regulations and processes.
• Resolve employee concerns about legal compliance.
• Ensuring timeous submission of reports in respect of relevant legislation.
• Monitoring and informing the University community regarding new / amended legislation.

• Receiving student disciplinary cases from Security Department.
• Checking student disciplinary cases to determine if there are grounds for disciplinary action, or whether it should be referred to the relevant house committee for action.
• Drafting of charges and issuing of notices to students.
• Acting as Prosecutor at Student Disciplinary Hearings.

• Monitoring and reporting on progress against operational initiatives.
• Monitoring and reporting on legislative and statutory compliance.
• Promoting sound institutional governance by participating in Institutional governance structures.
• Identifying risks relating to the field of responsibility, develop and implement mitigating strategies.
• Ensuring proper record keeping of all aspects within field of responsibility.

Enquiries can be made via email at

Assumption of duties: As mutually agreed to upon acceptance of the appointment. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment.

Women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Note: Sol Plaatje University (SPU) is dedicated to meeting its Employment Equity targets.

• Bachelor’s degree in law or equivalent.
• 2 - 3 years related experience.
• Computer literate.

• General duties associated with legal compliance.
• Implement and manage an effective legal compliance program.
• Develop and review University policies to ensure legal compliance.
• Advise management on the University’s compliance with laws and regulations through detailed reports.
• Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
• Assess University operations to determine compliance risk.
• Ensure all employees are educated on the latest regulations and processes.
• Resolve employee concerns about legal compliance.
• Ensuring timeous submission of reports in respect of relevant legislation.
• Monitoring and informing the University community regarding new / amended legislation.

• Receiving student disciplinary cases from Security Department.
• Checking student disciplinary cases to determine if there are grounds for disciplinary action, or whether it should be referred to the relevant house committee for action.
• Drafting of charges and issuing of notices to students.
• Acting as Prosecutor at Student Disciplinary Hearings.

• Monitoring and reporting on progress against operational initiatives.
• Monitoring and reporting on legislative and statutory compliance.
• Promoting sound institutional governance by participating in Institutional governance structures.
• Identifying risks relating to the field of responsibility, develop and implement mitigating strategies.
• Ensuring proper record keeping of all aspects within field of responsibility.

Enquiries can be made via email at

Assumption of duties: As mutually agreed to upon acceptance of the appointment. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment.

Women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Note: Sol Plaatje University (SPU) is dedicated to meeting its Employment Equity targets.

A vacancy has arisen in the Risk and Compliance Team for a Legal and Compliance Manager

Key areas of responsibility include:

Client Engagement Letters and SLA's – contract management framework:
Review and amend standard engagement letters
Review and comment on SLA's, client policies and supplier code of conduct documents to ensure the firms' liability is limited
Assist in developing a contracts management system
Supplier Agreements – Third-party risk management Framework
Review, negotiate and amend supplier agreements
Assist in developing and implementing a supplier/third-party risk management framework
Ensure suppliers complete the supplier risk assessment questionnaire
Ensure company Law compliance (eg CIPC filings)
Assist with compliance in other areas (eg date privacy)
Advise on legal matters from time to time
Conduct research and draft legal opinions
Draft and review contracts
Perform minor company secretarial duties
General Assistance to the Head of Risk and compliance
Other ad hoc duties from time to time.
Requirements:

Education and experience
LLB degree
Admitted attorney
At least 6 years post articles
Knowledge of contract law, Companies Act, and basic commercial law principles are essential
Must have experience in drafting and reviewing company engagement letters and client SLA's
Company Law compliance experience, CIPC filings advantageous
Experience reviewing and negotiating supplier contracts
Exposure to Data Privacy and ABC is advantageous
Excellent computer literacy skills (Microsoft products)

Competencies and personal attributes
Ability to maintain constructive working relationships
Good presentation skills
Attention to details
Good problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure
Ability to work independently
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong team player