Legal Liaison Manager

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Belmar Personnel Full time

**Legal Liaison Manager**
Hatfield

Main Purpose of Job

To drive and enhance the Legal function within the Motor Industry by creating the strategic roadmap for the function, defining the appropriate milestones, and optimizing the structure for success, ensuring effective and efficient management and coordination of all legal activities, including providing legal support to the office of the General Secretary. To develop and implement a legal framework to protect the interests of the company.

Strategic Contribution

Provide strategic recommendations to and partner with the executive team on all operational and strategic issues as they arise, based on legal environmental analysis.

Participate in the development of the overall strategic goals and take full responsibility and accountability for developing and implementing the Legal Business Units strategic objectives.

Maintain and promote a compliance strategy to ensure stakeholders receive optimal legal support.

Build and leverage efficiencies for the business unit in a way that creates value through the provision of legal expertise; manage legal collection issues to minimize write-offs.

Sit on relevant executive committees, as required by the Bargaining Council, and provide the requisite legal advice.

Advise the Executive committee and the Board and its committees around issues, trends, and changes in legislation and recommend improvements.

Proactively establish systems that identify areas of high risk and criticality from a legal perspective and design contingency and mitigation plans around identified issues.

Financial Management

Analyze and report on Business Unital trends and operating requirements to determine funding requirements for the financial year.

Prepare, finalize, and take ownership of the Business Units annual budget.

Manage the overall financial budget for the Business Unit to ensure financial budget and controls contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the Business Unit and support the accomplishment of service delivery objectives.

Propose and implement corrective measures to rectify deviations to budgetary provisions and Business Unital procedures.

Approve and sign off invoices and requisitions, etc. for expenditure, within levels of authority.

People Management

Engage in people-planning initiatives for the Business Unit, forecasting the skills required to meet business demands.

Manage the entire value chain of human resources-related aspects (i.e., recruitment and selection, performance management, skill development etc.) of the Business Unit, with support from Human Resources.

Mentor, guide, and provide thought leadership for the Business Unit, sharing impactful knowledge to drive the success of the team.

Create a high-performance culture for the Business Unit, enabling individuals to work as effectively as possible to meet business goals

Stakeholder Management

Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure information, advice or opinions on relevant matters is made available and/or communicated appropriately and timeously.

Maintain relationships with the various regulators, by drafting responses pertaining to queries received.

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Verify that all statutory reporting and make sure the compilation of the Councils financial statements is in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.

Manage and monitor the legal frameworks within the organisations, focusing on market, industry and legislative changes ensuring that the company adapts and remains compliant.

Legal Advisory Services

Take ownership of legal risks facing the company, and responsibility for the management of the risk appetite.

Define legal risks, through both proactive and reactive approaches; identify and understand potential risks and take accountability for the mitigation thereof.

Provide legal advice and support to the Board, Executive, Senior Management, and key stakeholders on matters that affect or potentially affect the company, through the preparation of legal briefs, advising on business transactions, property management, liabilities, rights and obligations, interpretation of laws, judgments, ruling, and regulations.

Provide a consolidated report, and recommendations to the governing board and various committees on legal issues, material breaches, potential compliance breaches and legal related correspondence received.

Advise on disciplinary cases for and behalf of the organisations.

Interpret laws, regulations, and court rulings to advise the Council on the necessary course of action to be taken.

Advise, manage, institute, and defend matters in which the company has interest in all courts and regularly report to Exco and Board on litigation status.

Prepare brief and/ or consult with external counsel/ legal advisors on legal issues where necessary. Engage and manage outside counsel to ensure costs are within budget and supervise and coordinate work p

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