Group Legal officer

Recruiter:

Talented Recruitment

Job Ref:

DBN001946/LP

Date posted:

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Location:

Durban, South Africa

Salary:

55000

JOB SUMMARY:
A global company within the fuel, oil and gas industry is seeking a Group Legal officer to support the group management team in the day-to-day corporate legal and compliance work. Service the legal, corporate, commercial, intellectual property (IPR), litigation and other legal requirements of the group, whilst complying with legal strategy.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Duties and responsibilities:
Operational legal advice:

Identify the risk profile of the Group’s operations with regards to exposure in, inter alia commercial agreements and offers solutions
Research and report on unique legal issues impacting the business.
Keep abreast of legislative changes that may affect the business.
Explain legal language.
Supply Group executives with legal advice in the course of business.

Contract and agreement management:

Draft and vet of a wide range of corporate or commercial agreements and appendices and manage the active agreements of the group.
Oversee all contractual obligations pertaining to the business including renewals.

Compliance and reporting:

Prepare and submit legal reports indicating activities performed and manage targets against these.
Prepare monthly management reports on the activities of the team, in addition to litigation reports and regulatory reports.
Work collaboratively with various departments to ensure compliance.
Document and maintain legal files through a acceptable system (Legal library).
Manage and oversee groups POPI act responsibilities.
Manage all reporting requirements to:
- Department of Energy.
- Competition commission (Cocom).
- Other legislative reporting requirement that my arise.

Projects & Other:

Assists the Group Legal team in the management and implementation of projects led by the Legal team.
Manage and setup system to oversee and manage all Trademarks.
Assist in coordinating all legal requirements with regards to M&A activities.
Manage the relationship and interaction with all outside legal advisors used by the group.

Company Secretarial work:

Manage all CIPC reporting requirements
Coordinate company statutory work with appointed consultants
Responsible for all the company secretarial work relating to all meetings, (Agenda, minutes).
Coordinate and assist in preparing relevant board and committee meetings documentation and arrangement.
Ensure than board's policies and instructions are communicated to the relevant persons in the company and that pertinent issues from management are referred back to the board where appropriate.

Should you not receive a response within the next 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful. Vacancies are advertised on our website, should you wish to keep abreast with our active roles.

IMPORTANT NOTICE
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I hereby consent for Talented Recruitment to process my personal information as part of the recruitment process. Talented Recruitment shall take all reasonable measures to protect the personal information of applicants and for the purpose of this disclaimer “personal information” shall be defined as detailed in the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”).

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