CareerPlan

Senior Banking and Finance Lawyer

Bloemfontein, MangaungFull-time2026-10-30

Core

Senior in-house lawyer structuring, documenting, and advising on complex financial transactions for a commercial bank's lending and capital markets operations.

Role type

Senior in-house banking and finance lawyer

Builds

Legal frameworks for syndicated loans, project finance, acquisition finance, and debt capital markets transactions

Domain

Banking and Finance Law

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Structuring complex financing transactions, drafting and negotiating loan agreements and security documents, advising on capital markets transactions, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing distressed debt and restructurings, conducting legal due diligence, developing internal legal policies

Preferred skills

Cross-border transaction experience, syndicated lending expertise, project finance expertise, acquisition finance expertise, debt capital markets expertise

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Structure, negotiate, and document complex financing transactions; Advise on capital markets transactions; Ensure compliance with banking regulations; Review and advise on financial regulatory matters; Draft, review, and negotiate finance-related contracts; Manage legal aspects of distressed debt situations; Liaise with external counsel, regulators, and stakeholders; Provide legal support for new product development; Conduct legal due diligence; Develop and maintain internal legal policies

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC