Group Legal and Compliance Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Edge Executive Search

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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The purpose of a Group Legal and Compliance Manager is to ensure that a company or organisation complies with all relevant laws and regulations governing its operations.

This role typically involves overseeing legal matters and compliance initiatives across all departments within the organisation.


Legal-Commercial

  • Ad hoc contract drafting and reviews for the Group (including negotiation of terms in most instances)
- legal/ commercial advise to GMs across the group pertaining to interpretation of existing contractual arrangements (drafting cancellation notices/ addenda)


Compliance

  • Running KYC processes with banks
  • Ad hoc requests from auditors/ providing walkthroughs on legal processes.
  • Attendances with Gambling Board from time to time (compliance audits, queries etc.)
  • Responses to Gauteng Gambling Board re various guest complaints (including running with internal investigative processes, setting up meetings with the Board etc)

Litigation
Running with specific litigation matters from inception (LOD drafting stage) and handing same over to the attorneys if required)
- monitoring progress on said matters until finalised.


Cosec

  • Running with administrative elements of quarterly Group and subsidiary board meetings (prepping agenda, minutes, submissions, setting meetings up etc, taking on cosec role in some instances)
  • Corunning LCC meetings across the Group
  • Filing annual returns on CIPC for the group
  • Ad hoc filing attendances on CIPC disclosures/deregistration of entities.
  • Fulfilling trust secretarial/ administrative duties for Group Trusts (prepping addenda for trust deeds, advising trustees on interpretation of clauses in trust deed, attending to trustee changes at Masters Office)

Projects| Big Matters

  • Contract register
- working with IT team and units to create online contract register/ running project.

  • Major transactions within group (Yellowwood +Refinance)
- assisting as and when required (usually providing information to banks, prepping required resolutions, assisting with getting same approved by members of the board within required timelines)

  • Internal Control Procedures updates
- working with GMs+ Ops teams to update specific ICPs for each entity (including filing same with relevant gambling boards, meeting compliance teams at the Boards and running with processes till completion/ approval)

  • Commenting on various policies and SOPs within group/ ensuring that same comply with legal requirements.
  • Legal review of directives or updates to legislation that impact the Group (including engagements with CASA/ attorneys)

Administrative

  • Weekly / daily review and distribution of Government and Provincial Gazette Notices relevant to the industry.
  • Raising of purchase orders for monthly invoicing from the attorneys and other suppliers being made use of.
  • Attend to legal and compliance filing.
  • Attend to all Subpoena's received, ensuring the requested information is provided.
  • Attending to DOA's.
  • Assist with auditors' queries.
  • Attend to queries and calls from across the group on various matters.
  • Meet with the Gambling Board from time to time (audits, queries etc.)
  • Review of daily surveillance reports and report all potential litigious matters to the insurers.
  • Notify the insurers of any impairments and or scheduled maintenance for the group.

Credit Applications

Agreements

  • Review and drafting of agreements for the group. These include SLA's, ED's, SD's, Barter, Entertainment agreements etc.
  • Negotiate terms of such agreements internally and externally until finalised.
  • Ensure that all paperwork such as motivations etc. are signed off.

Litigation

  • Reporting of all potential group litigious matters to the insurers, be it public liability, criminal or debtors.
  • Instruct and brief attorneys on such litigious matters.
  • Attend to inhouse investigations to assist attorneys and or insurers.
  • Draft repudiation letters.
  • Draft full and final settlement letters.
  • Liasing with guests.
  • Provide guidance and opinions to the group on litigious matters
  • Compiling of the quarterly litigation schedule.

Intellectual Property

  • Ensuring that all group trade marks are renewed timeously.
  • Run searches for any potential infringements.
  • Instruct and work hand in hand with the IP attorneys in order to ensure that any infringements are attended to.

Debtors

  • Attend to debtors throughout the month for the group (all administrative requirements).
  • Drafting and sending out of LOD's to all debtors for the group.
  • Attend to full and final settlement letters as well as AOD's and the negotiations thereof.
  • Compile the monthly debtors schedules for the group and distribute same to the various units.
  • Attend monthly debtors meeting and provide updates on progress re debtors.
  • List debtors on ITC.
  • Instruct debt recovery agents as well as provide support throughout the month to assist with collection of debt.
  • Instruct t
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