Legal Counsel - South Africa

Job Purpose:

The role of Legal Counsel is to identify and mitigate legal risk through providing specialist legal advice, drafting and vetting contracts, managing regulatory actions or litigation against the company and ensuring that the company remains legally compliant.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drafts, vets and negotiates legal and commercial agreements and communication according to standard and non-standard frameworks
• Minimises potential financial losses through identifying, assessing and mitigating risk;
• Provides expert recommendations that are technically accurate and timeous;
• Ensures continuous process improvement and implements legally compliant practices to enable effective operational processes and to protect the Organisation from regulatory and or legal action;
• Provides support to business management by creating solutions to meet customer demands, developing general legislative awareness and ensuring compliance to plans, policies and procedures
• The role is to support various internal departments and hence specific knowledge of the relevant Acts and Agreements are required.
• Management of emerging legislation.
• Interpretation and implementation of legislation.

Job Requirements:

• Admitted Attorney
• Three to five years relevant experience
• Relevant industry experience is an advantage