Senior Legal Advisor

1 week ago

Brackenfell, South Africa ShopriteX Full time

**Role Purpose**

The purpose of the Senior Legal Advisor role is to provide legal advisory and regulatory support services related to multi-functional activities across the Group, including non-RSA. The role interacts with a variety of internal and external stakeholders such as operational functional teams, attorneys, consultants etc. Business stakeholders will look to you for proactive, collaborative legal advice on a variety of legal topics.

**Role Description**
- Providing general legal support and advice to functional business.
- Drafting various commercial agreements including lease, purchase and sale, service, financial agreements.
- Review legal documentation and provide advice.
- Providing support and legal advisory services to other operational entities.
- Drafting and facilitating board resolutions as required.
- Providing legal advice and opinions (with or without external legal opinion or referral).
- Drafting and facilitating legal correspondence. (e.g., letter of demand, etc.)
- Overseeing legal matters that require external legal assistance.
- Working with the compliance team and functional business areas to assess legal compliance, and support activities to remedy legal non-compliance - support the legal team to identify deficiencies in internal controls, policies and other contractual orientated agreements and templates.
- Provide support with ad hoc multi-disciplinary projects that require regulatory input, which includes, but is not limited to new laws and regulations to be implemented, due diligence reviews of third parties and/or employees, strategic planning sessions and new products and services etc.

**Qualifications and experience**
- LLB or equivalent complete - (essential).
- Registered attorney with related experience - (essential).
- +3 years' experience in a Legal Advisory capacity, processing legal agreements, administrative documentation and litigating as applicable; within the context of Group wide Regulatory / Legal frameworks, policies, procedures, and guidelines - (essential).

**Key competencies and work ethic**:

- Self-motivated and driven with strong integrity - takes accountability for actions and mistakes.
- Critical and analytical thinker - analyses the regulatory context, identifies legal risks, establishes practice standards and monitoring mechanisms.
- Detail orientation - works within the details to adequately mitigate the legal risk.
- Conflict resolution and resilience - open, honest, and direct in giving and receiving constructive feedback. ‘Bounce back and try again' attitude during adversity.
- Quality orientation - diligently stays on top of the details and understands how they fit into the big picture.
- Problem solving - solutions orientated, guides the functional business areas in solving problems that align and comply with the Group Regulatory/Legal framework.
- Adapting and responding to change - outcomes orientated, delivers results and meets business expectations in a fast-paced unpredictable environment.
- Collaborative partnering - thinks and acts independently as well as collaboratively. Actively builds cross-functional stakeholder relationships and legal networks.
- Strong communicator - at all levels both verbal and written.

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