Legal Counsel

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Adzuna ZA B C2 Full time
You will engage with the following stakeholders:

External:
  • Regulators
  • Clients and their legal departments
  • Suppliers and their legal departments
  • Law firms
Internal:
  • CEO
  • Executive management
  • Senior management
  • All other team members
Your key responsibilities include:
  • Provide simplified business-focused legal solutions to complex matters
  • To provide excellent Legal services, including general legal advice, to BankservAfrica
  • Managing contracts, negotiating contract terms and conditions, supplier management,
    and all associated matters
  • Provide regulatory analysis and develop positions to represent BankservAfricas
    interests in the payments industry
  • Assist in necessary legislative research as required
  • Provide support to the Legal Services Department on projects
  • Draft legal opinions and memoranda
  • Ensure that legal risks are adequately addressed and mitigated
  • Advise business of how future legal changes will impact on the business
  • Identify legal risks affecting the organisation on all matters relating to legal advice, legal
    opinions, legislation and other regulatory commentary and interpretation, standard andnon-standard agreements or legal documentation, intellectual property and litigation, and ad hoc matters referred to legal.
QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE
  • An admitted attorney with an LLB degree or equivalent
  • Computer literate
EXPERIENCE
  • At least 5 6 years post qualification experience at a reputable law firm or as a corporate lawyer in a corporate environment in respect of contractual and commercial matters
  • Have knowledge of Information technology and payments regulatory experience(preferable)
  • Corporate and Commercial law
  • Competition law(preferable)
  • Financial Regulatory experience
  • Contract law

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