Senior Legal Advisor

**Purpose of role**:
Our vision is to be our customers' first and most trusted partner and have the ability to provide strategic, operational, customizable, creative, effective and professional legal and risk mitigation to the Prescient Group.
This role will be responsible for providing advanced or specialist legal technical support primarily to the asset management and stockbroking business in the Group and provide technical support to the Head of Governance in companywide projects, risk management and other initiatives as required.

**Duties and responsibilities**:
**Strategic and Operational delivery**:

- Providing effective and efficient legal input and guidance to the business, primarily the business of investment
- management and stockbroking.
- Working proactively with the operational teams of the business to ensure strategy and goals of the business as a client.
- Assisting and working closely with the various operational teams within the business units in achieving common strategy and goals.
- Negotiation and communication with internal and external clients on complex legal issues & quickly handle
- unanticipated matters or situations.
- Assisting with effective management and implementation of Governance policies and principles for all Prescient Group entities.

**Risk Management Support Function**:

- Assist the Head of Governance, including the Internal Audit function as and when required/requested, to:

- Develop and or maintain effective risk management controls and systems.
- Assist in rolling out and integrating legal, risk and or internal audit recommendations.
- Assist in training initiatives across the group, both locally and foreign.
- Assist in rolling out and integrating legal, risk and or internal audit recommendations.
- Evaluate and keep existing policies and procedures in line with regulatory changes and requirements and manage the policy register.

**Assist and work closely with the Head of Governance to**:

- Provide input and assist with oversight to all areas of Risk and Internal Audit across the Prescient Group. Risk management and Internal audit are important control facets that aim to ensure Prescient commercially address uncertainty and maintains a robust control environment.
- Roll out risk management initiatives and identification of types of risks (business, financial, legal, regulatory and security.)
- You will identify potential threats and assist in creating plans to prevent and mitigate problems.
- Ensure effective and proactive legal advice is provided to all internal and external clients and stakeholders.
- Aid where required on projects and or new initiatives.
- Establish excellent client relationships by providing high quality service to all stakeholders.
- Working proactively with the operational teams of the business to ensure strategy and goals of the business as a client.
- Negotiation and communication with internal and external clients on complex legal issues (quickly handle unanticipated counterproposals. Communicating means being able to describe legal risks and implications clearly, and understanding what the business wants and accurately reflecting that in a contract).
- Assisting with effective management and implementation of contract management of all Prescient Group entities.

**Regulatory Advisor to the business (general)**:

- Proactive analysing, advice and guidance to the business and Head of Governance on regulatory legislation applicable to the business, including but not limited to FMA, CISCA, EMIR, MIFID, FAIS, COFi, OTC Derivative Markets, Private Equity, Data Protection.
- Proactive research and communication to the business (where applicable & possible).
- Assisting with analysing corporate policies and practices where needed for adherence to laws and regulations.
- Proactive managing of legal risks and reporting of such risks to the Head of Governance.
- Providing labour law advice and support to the Head of Talent and human resources department on employment related matters from time to time.

**Regulatory Advisor to the Asset Management Business, including but not limited to**:

- Legal advice and sign off on transactions and related documentation in respect of inter alia:

- Structured Debt transactions; Common Terms Agreements, Senior Debt Agreements, Mezzanine Debt Agreements, Guarantees, Indemnities, Suretyships, Bonds; Listed debt programme memorandums; and Securitization Structures; and provide sound recommendations regarding structuring of transactions;
- Swaps and Derivative transaction documentation and confirmations, GMRA and SLA documentation.
- General / commercial legal advice and opinions as requested.
- Institutional: Drafting and review of institutional agreements, investment management agreements and third-party administration agreements.
- Transactional: Drafting and reviewing of transactional documents, i.e., Master Broker agreements, ISDA’s, GMLA’s.
- Advising on on-going institutional counterparty requirements.
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