- Ad Placed : 28 May 2020 18:00:14 Affiliate ad
- Remuneration : R 1500000 – PER YEAR
- Employment Type : Full Time
- Employment Level : Senior Management
- Industry :
- Legal
Other Legal - Region : Kwazulu-Natal
- Company : Sharon Nurock Recruitment cc
This large corporate is currently looking for a suitably qualified Group General Counsel & Company Secretary. Reporting to the Head of Legal Services – Commercial, you will be responsible for ensuring the provision of timely, accurate and quality business-focused legal and company secretarial advice and other legal services to operations in the Group.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required:
- LLB or B.Proc Degree.
- Admitted Attorney in South Africa.
- CIS an advantage.
- Min 10 to 15 years’ experience as a Commercial Lawyer (experience in a law firm and a corporate environment preferred).
- Proven leadership track record.
- Sound knowledge of all relevant South African laws (knowledge of laws relevant to countries of operation an advantage).
- Experience as a Company Secretary an advantage.
- Sound legal, business and financial acumen.
- Skilled in dispute management, including litigation and arbitration tactics and procedures.
- Skilled in drafting and negotiating contracts.
- Skilled at building and maintaining relationships at all levels, and engaging and influencing at an Executive level.
- Willingness to travel to all the Group operations.
Key Performance Areas:
- Act as trusted Strategic Legal Advisor to the Group’s Executive and the Group throughout Africa, and build collaborative partnerships with the business.
- Ensure the provision of timely, accurate and quality business-focused legal advice and other legal services to all operations in the Group, including:
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- Reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements that balance legal risks and protections with the commercial, operational and other outcomes agreed with stakeholders; and
- Directing and deciding upon the resolution of disputes.
- Identify the opportunities and risks faced by each operation and territory, so as to protect the business legally, maximise value and manage risk.
- Set legal policy, standards, guidelines and ways of working for the Group.
- Oversee regulatory compliance, particularly with competition and anti-bribery and corruption legislation.
- Act as Company Secretary and provide company secretarial advice as required by other companies in the Group.
- Lead and develop the Group’s Legal team (including the in-country Lawyers and Deputy Company Secretary), in alignment with the new Operating Model and wider business strategy, including local ownership and accountability.
- Monitor compliance and operations with applicable corporate governance requirements, as well as the listing requirements for listed entities.
- Ensure the creation and maintenance of registers and reports appropriate to the legal and company secretarial function.
- Partner with the Advocacy function in order to support and minimise risk in engagement with the media, government and regulators.
- Assist Internal Audit with the legal aspects of forensic investigations as required.
- Liaise with and report regularly, and participate in the broader legal community, as well as build an community of practice, to share knowledge, shape best practice and develop capability.
- Regularly review and monitor changes in law, and the consequences thereof for the Group.
- Develop and manage budgets, and monitor legal spend.
- Manage external Legal Advisors to ensure the provision of cost effective and appropriate legal services.
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