Group Legal and Compliance Manager

8 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Edge Executive Search Full time

The purpose of a Group Legal and Compliance Manager is to ensure that a company or organisation complies with all relevant laws and regulations governing its operations. This role typically involves overseeing legal matters and compliance initiatives across all departments within the organisation.

**Legal-Commercial**
- Ad hoc contract drafting and reviews for the Group (including negotiation of terms in most instances)
- legal/ commercial advise to GMs across the group pertaining to interpretation of existing contractual arrangements (drafting cancellation notices/ addenda)

**Compliance**
- Running KYC processes with banks
- Ad hoc requests from auditors/ providing walk-throughs on legal processes.
- Attendances with Gambling Board from time to time (compliance audits, queries etc.)
- Responses to Gauteng Gambling Board re various guest complaints (including running with internal investigative processes, setting up meetings with the Board etc)

**Litigation**
Running with specific litigation matters from inception (LOD drafting stage) and handing same over to the attorneys if required)
- monitoring progress on said matters until finalised.

**Cosec**
- Running with administrative elements of quarterly Group and subsidiary board meetings (prepping agenda, minutes, submissions, setting meetings up etc, taking on cosec role in some instances)
- Co-running LCC meetings across the Group
- Filing annual returns on CIPC for the group
- Ad hoc filing attendances on CIPC- disclosures/deregistration of entities.
- Fulfilling trust secretarial/ administrative duties for Group Trusts (prepping addenda for trust deeds, advising trustees on interpretation of clauses in trust deed, attending to trustee changes at Masters Office)

**Projects| Big Matters**
- Contract register
- working with IT team and units to create online contract register/ running project.
- Major transactions within group (Yellowwood +Refinance)
- assisting as and when required (usually providing information to banks, prepping required resolutions, assisting with getting same approved by members of the board within required timelines)
- Internal Control Procedures updates
- working with GMs+ Ops teams to update specific ICPs for each entity (including filing same with relevant gambling boards, meeting compliance teams at the Boards and running with processes till completion/ approval)
- Commenting on various policies and SOPs within group/ ensuring that same comply with legal requirements.
- Legal review of directives or updates to legislation that impact the Group (including engagements with CASA/ attorneys)

**Administrative**
- Weekly / daily review and distribution of Government and Provincial Gazette Notices relevant to the industry.
- Raising of purchase orders for monthly invoicing from the attorneys and other suppliers being made use of.
- Attend to legal and compliance filing.
- Attend to all Subpoena’s received, ensuring the requested information is provided.
- Attending to DOA’s.
- Assist with auditors’ queries.
- Attend to queries and calls from across the group on various matters.
- Meet with the Gambling Board from time to time (audits, queries etc.)
- Review of daily surveillance reports and report all potential litigious matters to the insurers.
- Notify the insurers of any impairments and or scheduled maintenance for the group.

**Credit Applications**

**Agreements**
- Review and drafting of agreements for the group. These include SLA’s, ED’s, SD’s, Barter, Entertainment agreements etc.
- Negotiate terms of such agreements internally and externally until finalised.
- Ensure that all paperwork such as motivations etc. are signed off.

**Litigation**
- Reporting of all potential group litigious matters to the insurers, be it public liability, criminal or debtors.
- Instruct and brief attorneys on such litigious matters.
- Attend to inhouse investigations to assist attorneys and or insurers.
- Draft repudiation letters.
- Draft full and final settlement letters.
- Liasing with guests.
- Provide guidance and opinions to the group on litigious matters
- Compiling of the quarterly litigation schedule.

**Intellectual Property**
- Ensuring that all group trade marks are renewed timeously.
- Run searches for any potential infringements.
- Instruct and work hand in hand with the IP attorneys in order to ensure that any infringements are attended to.

**Debtors**
- Attend to debtors throughout the month for the group (all administrative requirements).
- Drafting and sending out of LOD’s to all debtors for the group.
- Attend to full and final settlement letters as well as AOD’s and the negotiations thereof.
- Compile the monthly debtors schedules for the group and distribute same to the various units.
- Attend monthly debtors meeting and provide updates on progress re debtors.
- List debtors on ITC.
- Instruct debt recovery agents as well as provide support throughout the month to assist with collection of debt.
- Instruct t

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