Legal Officer

4 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa HR Matters Full time

**Duties**
- Provide prompt legal advice to the organization in respect of project finance transactional law, equities and financial services law, procurement law, employment law, social media law, with a sound knowledge of corporate law.
- Perform legal due diligence assessments, drafting, vetting and negotiations of all loan agreements or any other business related agreement.
- Ensure that all aspects of legal risk are identifies covered and controlled in the implementation of new projects, transactions, precedents, agreements, legal opinions, systems, procedures and products
- Assist in developing and delivering strategic risk management initiatives which ensures that best practice is adopted in compliance with all guidelines including applicable laws, rules and regulations.
- Manage legal documents outsourced to third party legal advisors, providing advice to the project investment unit, HR unit, Finance and Procurement unit.
- Proactively identify and manage legal and risk opportunities through providing sound advice in respect of process and procedure.
- Develop and implement initiatives and tools in-order to coach and guide business on legal requirements and risks in the project finance field so as to minimize and eliminate risk in this legal area.
- Keep management appraised or key compliance and default issues and possible ways of resolving such matters as well as the estimated risk that will arise from those issues.
- Provide legal support to the broader organization.
- Attend due diligence assessments relating to organizations investments.

**Minimum Requirements**
- LLB Degree
- At least 2 years post article experience
- At least 3 years job related experience
- Understanding of project and commercial agreements such as off take agreements, EPC/M contracts, operations and maintenance agreements, shareholder agreements, CTA, inter-creditor and facility agreements.
- Ability to report delinquent and problematic clients to collection head to explore next action, calling risky.
- Genuine commitment to highest ethical standards and to sustainable development with particular sensitivity to social and environmental issues
- Negotiation, analytical, interpersonal and management skills
- Attention to details.
- Diplomatic and business orientated manner
- Computer literacy (MS Office Suite)
- Ability to communicate at all levels, both internally and externally and
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

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