• 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:
• • 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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