Legal Manager
2 days ago
**Legal ~ Insurance**
**JHB Central**
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**Legal Manager**
**Illovo Johannesburg**
**R1 000 000 p/a CTC**
**Role Description**
The role will provide an effective legal service to the company and conduct legal research and provide legal impact analysis and advice to ensure awareness on new laws.
**KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (Duties and Responsibilities)**
**General Legal Advise**
- Provide and/or facilitate delivery of legal advice, guidance and support to enable the business to achieve it best imperatives.
- Draft legal opinions, memoranda, and other related legal documents.
- Co-ordinate and facilitate the monthly regulatory developments.
- Develop and implement the company’s legal risk management strategy for identifying and managing legal risks within the business.
- Manage the delivery of litigation support to the business and manage legal costs by being proactive in legal matters.
- Draft and conclude SLA’s with external Attorney’s that are on the companies panel to ensure that we receive sound, accurate and cost-effective legal advice.
- Organize and facilitate training by external law firms.
- Research and remain up to date with all legislative developments and advise business on aligning changes to business imperatives.
- Represent the business interests by interfacing with the negotiation contracts and agreements with third parties, including financial institutions, Agent companies and business partners as required.
- Provide detailed monthly progress reports as requested.
- Manage an effective diary system.
- Negotiate settlement of claims with all relevant stakeholders/Agent companies.
- Implement and maintain a schedule of all claims that have been escalated to Legal by updating the status of such claims.
- Advise on matters of good governance; the Companies Act and King IV.
- Review and provide advice on new products and services.
- Undertake other duties, special projects as requested.
**Legal Research and Training**
- Research issues relating to the non-life insurance industry and legislation that might impact the company especially before legislation is Gazetted.
- Conduct legal research and provide legal impact analysis and advice to ensure awareness and compliance with new laws and legislative amendments.
- Advise the company on the impact of non-compliance and Laws and Regulations.
- Provide monthly training to the business on new Laws and/or regulations amendments as per agreed legal procedure.
- Draft legal risk management plans on all new legislations within 15 days of review of the new legislation being gazetted.
**Contract/SLA Management**
- Ensure that contractual documentation and other legal documents are drafted, standardized, reviewed, interpreted, and vetted.
- Represent the business interests by interfacing with and negotiating contracts and agreements with third parties.
- Develop and maintain central repository where all contracts and other related matters.
- Ensuring all standard contract terms are included in all contracts.
- Compliance with the legal Framework as it relates to contracts and other related matters.
- Maintain a register and schedule of all contractual matters.
- Contract register to be reviewed and signed off by Senior Governance Manager and Executive Manager.
**Identify areas of concern and prove possible solutions.**
- Assist Senior Governance Manager in identifying areas of concern and provide possible legal solutions.
- Aid of a legal nature to internal committees and forums.
- Aid in respect of internal compliance matters.
**Development of policies and procedures.**
- Develop, draft, and advise on legal frameworks, practices, policies, and procedures.
**People Management**
- Manage performance of direct reports.
- Ensure that annual performance objectives are set and understood by team members in the department.
- Ensure agreement of annual goals, measuring performance against agreed goals. Talent management of direct reports, development areas identified and career development plans and paths in place for team members.
- Ensure that the working environment contributes to improving staff morale and increasing productivity.
- Develop individual and Team competence.
**Adhoc.**
- Perform ad hoc tasks as and when required by the Senior Manager: Governance.
**Qualifications and experience**:
- Matric
- Minimum LLB.
- Admitted Attorney.
- 6 years post admission experience.
- 6 years post admission experience in claims litigation, short term insurance and contract drafting.
- Strong insurance/claims experience within the short term insurance industry as in-house legal counsel or insurance litigation within legal practice (non-).
**Knowledge**
- Knowledge of and the ability to interpret the short term insurance act, insurance act, PFMA, Treasury regulations and FAIS knowledge and experience of companies act.
- Sound knowledge of claims principles as well as claims management.
- Knowledge of short-term insurance products (advantageous).
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