Legal Advisor

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Horizons Full time

**About Horizons**:
At Horizons, we're building the **infrastructure to power borderless teams**. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

**The day to day**:

- Prepare, review, and revise commercial-related documents (T&Cs, DPA, etc.)
- Collaborate closely with both Sales and Operations teams and participate as support in meetings (video and face-to-face) to ensure long-term trusted relationship with existing and new clients, consultants, and partners
- Prepare training modules and guidance memos on a range of legal topics
- Participate in the review and improvement of our legal documents (global commercial clauses and employment-related templates), including, reviewing policies to ensure compliance with applicable local laws (employment type, severance, handbook, wages, working hours, workplace safety, discipline, tracking potential and existing employment-related claims)
- Conduct researches and oversight local changes in applicable laws and regulations, foresee any potential risk, and communicate and implement relevant legal documents accordingly

**What is expected**:

- Strong decision-making and organizational skills, with great attention to details and discipline, and with ability to provide expertise and practical advice
- Proactive counseling with anticipation to quickly adapt approach to manage risks and mitigate issues before they arise
- Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams, with ability to resolve issues using communication skills and legal expertise

**Requirements**:

- Strong academic background, with a Bachelor degree or higher in Law, with specialization in Labor Law, Contracts Law, Private Law, or Law applied to HR
- Experience in a similar role, in a fast-growth environment, with deep knowledge and understanding of all types of employment matters, and labor-relationships in general
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once
- Time management and organization in order to meet strict deadlines
- Ability to analyze problems and come up with a solution
- Any personal experience abroad or living in multi countries would be a great plus
- Language requirements: fluent in English with excellent writing skills, Chinese would be a plus

**What it's like working at Horizons**:
**Our service & product**. We're a technology company, not an accountancy, payroll provider, recruitment firm or similar. We build a workforce management platform that allows our customers to hire the best talent in minutes, without worrying about compliance, payroll, or HR admin.

**Our amazing team and environment**. Working at Horizons means you're working on something very exciting: Allowing every person on the planet to have access to equal opportunities in living a fulfilled work and personal life. We believe in hiring from within and going the extra mile to retain top talent. As the company continues to grow extremely fast, you will be given the opportunity to develop and grow alongside.

**Our benefits and perks. **Being a Horizoneer means that you get the benefit of:

- A competitive salary
- An asynchronous working environment
- A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid)
- The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time
- Global mobility options for long-term moves
- Growth opportunities within the company
- Choosing your own hardware (Windows or Mac) - which we will buy for you

**How to apply**:
Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in a PDF format.

If you don't have an up-to-date CV but you are still keen to reaching out, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

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