22 Oct
Orion Infinity HR Solutions FZE
Dubai
Job Description:
The Legal and compliance Manager will be responsible for understanding and executing legal and compliance requirements of entities involved in the mining and manufacturing verticals in a timely, cost effective and well co-ordinated manner.
At an execution level, it would involve planning and co-ordination of compliance calendar of all entities (including listed companies), by liaising with the user locations to ensure compliance requirements are identified, itemized and documented, and timeously met.Regarding the legal side of the role, it would involve briefing attorneys, counsel, drafting agreements/contracts etc, contracting with counterparties, managing legal proceedings,
participation in desk-top legal due diligence on acquisition targets followed by managing detailed legal due-diligence on critical matters identified during the desk-top review.
The incumbent will cohesively work with the various locational teams and legal professionals and hence must have pleasant people management skills and sound legal and commercial knowledge.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Compliance role_
- Develop and document acompliance calendar for each entity
- Liaise with listings managers of listed entities, building good rapport
- Maintain a compliance reporting templates framework and train users
- For listed entities, prepare reporting deadlines and ensure timely compliance by co-ordinating with the local teams
- Periodic/timely negotiation of engagement terms with the advisors working on compliance matters
- Review and finalise engagement lettersof external compliance consultants,in conjunction with top management
- Track actual compliance reporting versus targets and prepare a compliance score for each entity and a compliance report for top management
- Legal role_
- Working knowledge of international corporate laws and mining, industrial and labour laws (particularly South Africa) and a willingness to expand knowledge base by learning about applicable laws for new jurisdictions
- Ability to prepare first draft of agreements and contracts, including, and particularly, those without precedence, demonstrating excellent conceptual understanding of typical legal and commercial terms and considerations
- Commercially evaluate options for selection of advisors, by obtaining and reviewing alternate quotations, negotiating best rates, including but not limited to quality and timing of service, credit arrangements,
discounts on charge-out rates and rebates for lengthy proceedings
- Maintain and strengthen on-going relationships with legal advisors/counsel, and build new relationships, through constant communication
- Periodic/timely negotiation of engagement terms with the advisors working on legal matters
Obtain and manage credit terms and arrange for timely set-up of legal advisors’ files, through
- execution of relevant documents provided by the counterparty
- Monitor progress of ongoing legal matters, for timely reporting to top management and tracking action points for expeditious settlement of open matters
- Proactively learn about new laws/regulations or changes to existing laws and regulations,
and receive regular updates in this regard by engagingwith various service providers
- Review and recommend legal invoices for payment and also monitor legal costs, to ensure optimization and avoid exceeding allocated budget for each matter
- Focus on constant improvements to the department’s processes and workflow
- Perform high level legal due diligence on targets and prepare a scope of work for external legal advisors for a proposed transaction to the extent necessary and suitably consider these findings in deal documentation
- Ability to manage internal and external stakeholders through communication, including timely feedback
- Manage an up-to-date dossier for all entities, maintaining registration/incorporation documents, legal correspondence, commercial agreements and legal proceedings, if relevant
- Organise monthly MIS in a manner demonstrating the role, and achievements (both qualitative and quantitative) of the legal function across businesses
**Skills & Attributes**:
- Integrity
- Problem-solving
- Analytical thinking and strong commercial sense
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong agreements/contract drafting skills, particularly contracts without precedence
- Collaborate for achievement - a team player
- Cross-border M&A;
- Negotiation skills with service providers
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Willing to learn about new jurisdictions
- Time and stressmanagement
**Education and experience**:
- 3-5 years in a similar role
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Laws
- Working knowledge of contract drafting, managing large compliance calendars
- Hands-on relationship management with legal advisors/counsel
**Salary**: AED14,000.00 - AED18,000.00 per month
COVID-19 considerations:
all applicant are required to wear mask to enter the premise,
Application Question(s):
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▶️ Legal and Compliance Manager
🖊️ Orion Infinity HR Solutions FZE
📍 Dubai