Head of Legal and Compliance

Closing Date
- 2025/02/03
- Reference Number
- SAS250123-1
- Job Title
- Head of Legal and Compliance
- Job Type
- Permanent
- Division
- CEO's Office
- Department
- Legal
- EE Occupational Levels
- Level 8: Executives
- Location - Town / City
- Sandton
- Location - Province
- Gauteng
- Location - Country
- South Africa
- Job Advert Summary
- To develop and drive the successful delivery of the Legal and compliance strategy and the effective
running of the function, ensuring the attainment of Sasria objectives internally and externally through
provision of sound legal and compliance expertise.
- Minimum Requirements

**Qualification**
- Bachelor of Laws degree
- Master’s degree in commerce, Business Administration, Management, Law or
related field
- Admitted Legal Practitioner

**Experience**
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant senior management experience, leading a
function, interacting with and providing advisory to executive management.**Responsibilities**:
**Key Performance Areas/Tasks**

**Strategic Alignment**:

- Proactively direct and oversee the compliance function, ensuring that the organisation remains compliant with all relevant legal prescripts including legislation, regulations and directives.
- Collaborate with the executive management team to provide legal advice to and advance Sasria’s interest.
- Provide strategic advice and counsel to the company in terms of the legal impact of strategic plans and actions - locally or internationally
- Participate in the development of Sasria’soverall strategy.
- Develop and implement legal and compliance framework, strategies, policies, ensuring alignment with the overall organisational strategy.
- Develop the function’s operational plans and monitor implementation thereof

**Legal**:

- Provide legal services and guidance to the organisation as needed on matters including contracts, short term insurance, labour law and company law among others
- Provide general legal advice pertaining to organisational decisions regarding scope, mandate and shareholder interactions
- In collaboration with the executive management,
- manage various complex legal projects
- Collaborate with external legal counsel and other stakeholders to facilitate and ensure attainment of organisational objectives.
- Analyse new legislation and regulation and advise the company on how it will impact its operations

**Compliance**:

- Assume overall accountability for the adequate legal and compliance risk management framework
- Ensure that the framework for Legal and compliance risk management is in alignment with the Sasria’s enterprise risk management
- Implement leading practices and processes in the compliance management fraternity
- Conduct compliance risk and vulnerability selfassessments within Sasria’s business units.
- Ensure Sasria delivers on its compliance related reporting obligations
- Provide management reports on compliance operations and progress, on a regular basis, and / or as directed or requested by Line Manager, to keep Management informed of the operation and progress of compliance efforts.
- Implement adequate compliance management tools/ technology to effectively and efficiently deliver on functional mandate

**Operations**:

- Managing Contracts and Service Level Agreements
- Drive the reduction of Corporate Risk by Ensuring all Contractual Relationships are done in compliance with Sasria and legal requirements
- Ensure appointment and management of the panel of attorneys.
- Represent Sasria in regulatory forums (e.g. SAIA legal committee)

**Financial**:

- Compile and manage functional budget and forecasts
- Manage legal costs and where applicable oversee the taxation of costs

**People Management**:

- Ensure adequate capacity resourcing for hefunction to successfully execute its mandate.
- Recruitment and development of skilled staff
- Oversee, support, coach and develop performance of direct reports, ensuring agreement of performance targets, measuring performance against agreed goals and dealing with non-performance accordingly.
- Talent management of direct reports, including career developments and paths for all staff and succession planning for key positions.
- Ensure that the working environment contributes to improving staff morale and increasing productivity