- Ad Placed : 21 May 2020 06:00:15 Affiliate ad
- Remuneration : R 650000 – PER YEAR
- Employment Type : Full Time
- Employment Level : Senior Management
- Industry :
- Legal
Other Legal - Region : Kwazulu-Natal
- Company : Sharon Nurock Recruitment cc
This corporate giant is currently looking for a suitably qualified EE Group Legal Counsel: Compliance. Reporting to the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition & Compliance, you will be responsible for partnering with the business to provide legal advice and services that promote growth while identifying legal risk and mitigation actions.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required:
- LLB or B.Proc.
- Admitted Attorney.
- Articles completed in a law firm, pref with at least a further 2 years’ commercial and/or competition law experience.
- Legal, business and financial acumen.
- Working knowledge of the law (Legislation, Case Law and Common Law) relevant to countries of operation.
- Knowledge of competition and compliance law an advantage.
- Skilled in drafting and dispute management.
- Skilled at partnering and relationship building.
- Ability to engage, influence and negotiate effectively.
- Willingness to travel to the Group’s Operations.
Key Performance Areas:
- Proactively engage and partner with the business to better protect the business, maximize value, embed good practices and manage risk, informing the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance prior to making decisions with a high risk for the business.
- Provide timely, accurate and quality legal advice to the business on all competition, compliance and commercial legal matters – alone, together with the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance, other Lawyers in the Legal team, or with external Lawyers as appropriate.
- Support the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance in implementing strategic and wider business initiatives, including leading such initiatives.
- Act as a point of contact for day-to-day competition and compliance legal queries from the business.
- Proactively seek to raise the profile of competition and compliance issues.
- Review, draft and negotiate commercial agreements.
- Analyse objectives/plans, make judgements and recommendations.
- Provide advice regarding dealings with regulators and government officials in relation to legal compliance matters.
- Decide and advise on, negotiate and manage any disputes or claims that may arise from time to time.
- Instruct and manage external Legal Advisors, ensuring cost-effective commercial advice is delivered.
- Prepare presentations for training purposes, and train individuals and groups within the business on legal procedures and other legal and compliance issues.
- Assist in the development of precedents so as to facilitate the use of appropriate contracts throughout the business.
- Support the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance in managing the conduct of legal compliance investigations.
- Meet regularly with the Chief Risk Officer to be kept up-to-date with the implementation of competition and ABC compliance controls and issues arising.
- Contribute to the wider Legal teams, including sharing experience, know-how and developing training and precedents.
- Regularly review and monitor legislation changes, and keep up-to-date with developments in relevant areas of expertise.
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