Senior Legal Advisor

2 months ago

East London, South Africa Staff Solutions Full time

Eastern Cape, East London
- Negotiable Cost To Company (Market related, Negotiable)

New Vacancy Available Our well known client in the Business Development Sector is looking to employ a Senior Legal Advisor to join their dynamic team in East London.

**Support to Strategic Planning and Governance**:

- Provide input to the organisational strategy, as well as reviewing organisational activities and recommend corrective actions if necessary.
- Develop unit operational plans and align all activities undertaken in the unit to ensure delivery of corporate objectives.
- Enhance and implement treasury systems, processes, procedures, tools, and control systems.
- Implement controls within the section which minimize potential risk to stakeholders.
- Ensure monthly, quarterly, and annual reports are prepared accurately, maintained, and submitted timeously to all stakeholders.
- Participate in management forums within the company, contributing expertise to enable sound decision making.
- Facilitate inter-departmental communication through appropriate structures and systems.
- Manage preparation and support of all internal and external audits.
- Develop and manage relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.

**Provision of Legal Support and Opinion to Business Units and Subsidiaries**:

- Provide strategic support to business units and subsidiaries on any legal related issues/matters to reach amicable solutions.
- Provide legal advice and draft legal opinions / legal documents to ensure that business units operate within the legal framework.
- Conduct factual problem and dispute analysis through consultations.
- Assess contingency and reliability of available evidence and burden of proof.
- Conduct legal research on legal aspects of disputes or problem areas and provide legal opinion where necessary.
- Prepare memoranda to external attorneys and Counsel as and when required.
- Analyse costs of litigation matters and report on the overall expenditure.
- Track progress of implementation of outcomes of legal opinions.
- Provide legal support related to the operations and functioning

**Legal Risk Mitigation**:

- Provide legal support by establishing, communicating and facilitating the use of appropriate risk management methodologies, tools and techniques to mitigate risk.
- Support business units and subsidiaries in establishing, maintaining and continuously improving risk management capabilities.
- Conduct risk analysis and advise Line Management of direct and indirect risks and impact thereof.
- Provide legal guidance and proactively identify any associated legal risks that business units may encounter.

**Perfection of securities for loans recoveries**:

- Develop frameworks and techniques to deal with the perfection of securities for loan recoveries.
- Analyse major commercial proposals in development finance and property development portfolios.
- Prepare and submit monthly legal reports to the attention of debt collections unit.
- Develop a business unit plan to provide guidance and direction of the operations of debt collection unit.

**Stakeholder Management**:

- Manage relationships with different stakeholders, such as attorneys, counsel, business units, tenants and clients.
- Liaise and hold meetings with various stakeholders, as well as, managing relations with property developers and funders.
- Liaise and hold meetings with institutional clients and organised business structures to articulate strategic objectives.
- Network with key stakeholders, business formations, and other development bodies.

**Budget Management of the Unit**:

- Manage and control the capital and operational budget of the Unit to ensure effective and efficient functioning within budgetary parameters of the company.
- Evaluate the unit’s performance against the approved budget and addressing deviations/variances.
- Monitor, recommend and implement corrective measures to rectify deviations/acts contrary to budgetary provisions, financial regulations, audit.
- Authorise requisitions, payments, etc. regarding expenditure as delegated.
- Prepare and present reports detailing the status of expenditure and availability of funds for current and short-term interventions.
- Prepare budget transfer requests and submit for approval.
- Sound planning and forecasting of capital expenditure within area of responsibility.

**People Management**:

- Assign responsibilities and ensure effective task authorisation protocols are in place.
- Implement staff development and training interventions to achieve overall organisational objectives.
- Develop and implement succession plans in the quest to build capacity for career advancement.
- Adhere to employment equity and recruitment policies.
- Manage the performance of the team in accordance with the performance management policy and procedure.
- Identify training and development needs, implementing plans to address requirements, as appropriate.
- Manage discipline and absenteeism in accor

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