Senior Legal Advisor - Johannesburg, South Africa - Moving Heads Personnel

Moving Heads Personnel

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Enhance the legal capabilities, implement an end-to-end corporate legal function, and enhance stakeholder interactions. Ensure the effective management of legal risk while supporting strategic growth initiatives; by providing quality legal advisory services.

Ability to identify, assess, manage, monitor, and report on current and potential legal risks.
Continuously staying abreast with changes in legislation, regulations, court decisions and proposals from regulators and provide research on legal related topics and provide feedback to relevant stakeholders.
Ensure changes and developments in legislation, regulators, guidelines, and practices are analysed, evaluated and reported.
Provide legal support, opinions, advice, and feedback.
Assessment of business needs and provide corporate legal advice regarding contracting and projects implementation.
Ability to draft, negotiate, review, and advise on contracts including but not limited to Service Level, MOU, NDA, Outsourcing, binder etc.
Manage the contract management process.
Provide strategic legal support, advice, and guidance, including various committees, forums and departments which may require legal support.
Build strong relationships through providing specialist knowhow and leadership.
Assist, support and contribute to Risk Management and Legal Management within the orginisation.
Draft and/or review internal policies and effectively implement policies and guidelines.
The development and management of the legal risk plans managing and maintaining the Legal Risk Management Framework including implementation of same throughout the organisation.
Tracking, monitoring, and reporting of key legal risk indicators, controls and corrective action plans.
Conduct training and ensure staff are kept abreast of legal and regulatory developments.
Compiling legal reports.
Attend to general legal queries, as and when requested.
Ability to project manage legal deliverables in conjunction with stakeholder.
Review ongoing litigation cases and advise management accordingly.
Provide legal training to different business units on applicable legal issues which is relevant for a particular business unit, including legal processes and policies.
Legal Degree.
Must be an Admitted attorney.
Min 6 years' post admission experience.
Experience within the Financial Services Industry advantageous.
Knowledge of POPIA, COFI, FAIS, FICA, FSRA, Insurance Act advantageous