Legal Compliance Specialist

1 month ago


Western Cape, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

Are you a professional, energetic and dedicated individual? Would you like to fill the position of Legal Compliance Specialist within the Finance & Advisory: Group Risk and Assurance?

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring ongoing compliance with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements
- Ensuring compliance with King 4 and assisting with assurance
- Drafting and updating risk ratings, compliance risk management plans and annual plans, and giving compliance advice for key laws e.g. FAIS, Insurance, TCF, FSRA (primary focus), POPIA, CPA, EPR, ESG and FICA
- Providing compliance advice for key laws in Botswana and Zambia
- Drafting policies and oversight of certain policies for key laws
- Liaising with TFG internal audit and external auditors regarding compliance
- Providing awareness training on applicable laws, compliance related systems, creating a culture of compliance, risk awareness, identification, assessment, mitigating and monitoring laws
- Maintaining a legislative risk register and reporting on these risks, and actions required
- Keeping management updated on legislative developments - i.e. draft laws and proposed new laws
- Monitoring TFG customer complaints systems and complaints to external bodies on TFG
- Provide legal compliance advice and opinions to in-house legal advisors and the business
- Submission of reports, financials and keeping company records with the relevant regulators up to date
- Assisting with drafting compliance reports to 3 board committees
- Assisting in up-skilling and managing the team’s compliance assistants
- Where specified, attending meetings on laws being drafted (e.g. parliament or industry bodies) and provide reports
- Facilitating compliance and project managing compliance related changes within the business
- Facilitating the automation of compliance monitoring within areas of responsibility

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- LLB qualification (essential)
- Admitted attorney (essential)
- Compliance qualification from a recognised institution e.g. UCT/CISA compliance management course (essential)
- Key Individual exam qualification (essential)
- Registered compliance officer for a Category 1 FSP (essential)
- Minimum 5 years post articles experience
- 3 years of compliance experience
- SA Passport holder

**Skills**:

- Able to work independently and in a team
- An individual willing to take the initiative
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to build and value relationships
- Able to stand their ground and persuade
- Even temper, humble, curious mind and excited to get involved in taking compliance digital

**Behaviours**:

- Balances Stakeholders - effectively considers the diverse needs of various stakeholders
- Builds Effective Teams - forms, develops and leads a group of individuals toward the achievement of a common team objective
- Communicates Effectively - conveys information and communicates ideas in a clear, concise and impactful manner
- Drives Results - sets ambitious goals and takes focused action to achieve desired outcomes to deliver measurable results
- Ensures Accountability - takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets
- Manages Complexity - interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems
- Plans and Aligns - develops plans and prioritises initiatives that align to the organisational goals and objectives
- Strategic Mindset - thinks and plans strategically, focusing on the long-term goals and objectives of the organisation



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