Senior Legal Advisor
3 days ago
-Introduction
Metropolitan is one of the oldest financial services brands in South Africa. With a 116 year legacy of serving the communities in which it operates, Metropolitan represents true empowerment in serving Africa's people through affordable financial solutions that create financial growth and security.
Metropolitan operates in South Africa, but the brand is also present in7 African countries including, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Ghana and Lesotho.Metropolitan provides financial wellness solutions that meet the needs of low income clients, including funeral insurance, health, savings, hospital cash-back cover, retirement solutions and life insurance.
Role Purpose
To partner proactively and constructively with business to provide legal assistance & mitigate legal risk, assist in drafting, reviewing & finalisation of contracts, and provide formal and ad hoc legal opinions on a variety of issues.
Requirements
- Minimum education and qualification requirements_
- Matric Certificate
- BA LLB (or equivalent)
- Admitted Attorney (Essential)
- Minimum experience requirements_
- At least 7 years' legal advisory experience in Health / medical schemes governance & administration.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Legal risk management_
- Maintain awareness of ongoing legal risks, new legislation and court decisions and provide feedback to relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure changes and developments in legislation, regulations, guidelines and practices are analysed, evaluated and reported.
- Track and address legal risk management related complaints and identify trends and major issues to be addressed.
- Support Compliance on legal interpretation issues.
- Draft and/or review internal policies and ensure they comply with relevant statutory and/or legal requirements.
- Review and advise management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
- Monitor business awareness of legal risks and ensure these are being identified and managed in all legal projects, agreements, legal opinions, systems, policies, procedures and products (where relevant).
- Advise corporate committees on high risk, governance and related matters.
- Manage and support new regulatory processes.
- Conduct training and ensure staff are kept abreast of legal and regulatory developments.
- Provision of legal advice and drafting of contracts and legal agreements_
- Perform legal research on pertinent issues impacting business.
- Provide legal support, opinions and advice.
- Provide legal protection and risk management advice, especially on contract management.
- Responds to alleged violation of rules, regulations, policies, procedures and standards of conduct through the initiation of appropriate investigation procedures in partnership with Human Resources.
- Handle escalated complaints.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand the legal aspects of proposed initiatives and structures and provide a view on the feasibility thereof.
- Oversee the review and drafting of documents for business transactions and advise on checklists used to ensure information is submitted on time.
- Ensure all legal documentation is properly signed and recorded.
- Manage the legal agreement database to ensure all information is up-to-date, signed and correctly linked to other relevant systems.
- Oversee the drafting and reviewing of contracts and agreements and ensure they comply with relevant statutory and/or legal requirements.
- Ensure all internal contracting parties understand the content and implications of contracts proposed and/or entered into.
- Ensure proper drafting and vetting of legal agreements.
- Prepare, review and modify contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities.
- Ensure contracts and agreements are amended and updated where required.
- Litigation management_
- Appoint and instruct legal counsel where required.
- Prepare paperwork for submission to external counsel and follow up.
- Review ongoing litigation cases and advise management accordingly.
- Liaise between external counsel and business to defend or prosecute a case to its logical conclusion.
- Drive the management and amelioration of risk arising from litigation.
- Stakeholder engagement_
- Build trusted advisor relationships with internal and external stakeholders and ensure they are provided with service excellence.
- Implement and monitor service practices that meet clients and own organisation's needs.
- Train business on new legislation.
- Ensure effective relationships and service level agreement (SLA) management with internal and external stakeholders.
- Engage senior management on a partnership basis to facilitate legal risk assessment, evaluate the effectiveness of proposed policies and controls and take remedial action where required.
- Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.
- Enhance relationships beyond own function to improve reporting and wider understanding of relevant le
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