Legal Associate at payd (a division of Clickatell)

Job description

Purpose

The purpose of this role is tsupport the Senior Legal Associate and Head of the Department tensure Clickatell’s growth and expansion strategy by ensuring legal and regulatory compliance across entities, territories and products.

Reporting to you:

None

The Key responsibility areas:

• Assist with all Company Secretarial matters of the group including internal compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain all statutory registers and record all Share Transfers/Director appointment/resignations.
• Assist with the review of, negotiations and advise on various 3rd party contracts, including but not limited tonline terms and conditions of service, vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, opensource license terms of use, consulting agreements, lease agreements, Statements of Work and the like.
• Assist with the drafting of various contracts, including but not limited tnon-disclosure agreements, complex international internal, client and vendor agreements, territory-specific purchasing terms and conditions and privacy policies, professional services agreements, memorandum of understanding, letters of engagement, indemnities, disclaimers, master services agreements and annexures, cession agreements, acknowledgments of debt, addendums tagreement and the like.
• Assist with the handling of contract negotiations with vendors, consultants and other 3rd party contractors and clients.
• Assist with (and liaise with attorneys in various jurisdictions with regards to) all relevant licence renewals and compliance, for example regarding the Nigerian Communications Commission.
• Assist with administration of internal contract database.
• Provide legal counsel and representation tthe business.
• Assist with risk and compliance matters and corporate governance in general.
• Provide assistance during threatened or actual litigation proceedings and/or liaise with externally appointed attorneys.
• Provide assistance tthe finance department with regards tdebt collection.
• Assist with business trademark searches, registration and/or protection.
• Assist with the development of company policy and position on all legal matters.
• Review policy documents on all non-legal matters.
• Conduct and coordinate research inta variety of legal issues across territories (predominantly online legal conditions).
• Administrative duties
• Write, review and edit reports, agreements, correspondence and related documents.
• Staff training on selected legal matters.

Core Competencies:

• Ability to keep team members accountable and have tough conversations when required.
• Excellent communication: Strong written and oral communication skills which can be adapted ta range of audiences. Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent Administrative skills: Be able twork with a high level of accuracy.
• Be able twork under pressure: Deadlines are very tight, accurate work is a must.
• Team Work: Must be able twork as part of a team. Must be able twork reliably and responsibly with internal and external colleagues.
• Analysis and logic, systematic and orderly planning, high attention tdetail.
• Ethical and principal based working methods.
• Ability tthink creatively and take an innovative and flexible approach tproblem solving in a fast hanging technology driven company.
• Self-starter whcan work with minimum of supervision.
• Experience of creating and sustaining a culture of responsive, timely, reliable and knowledgeable service tusers.
• Ability tprioritise tasks and manage personal and departmental schedules effectively tmeet tight deadlines.
• Project management skills.

General Competencies:

• Excellent negotiating skills both internally tteam and externally with other departments.
• Ability tmaintain confidentiality.
• Willingness twork outside of normal office hours when circumstances dictate.

Experience and Education:

• LLB degree qualification
• Admitted attorney
• 4+ years’ post-article experience.

Must have experience in the following:

• Company Secretarial work
• Drafting and vetting of contractual agreements
• Legal research
• Preferably some basic Corporate law and Commercial law exposure

Personal Characteristics:

• Assertive nature.
• Ability tadapt tchange.
• Team player.
• Ethical decision-maker whdelivers upon promises made.
• High levels of initiative.
• Work independently, with a high degree of responsibility.
• Work well under pressure and tmeet deadlines.
• A positive, “can do” attitude, including when under pressure.
• The ability ttake a task through tcompletion in the allotted time.
• Willingness tassist or performs tasks outside of own job description and function as required.
• The ability ttake on responsibility, ownership and be accountable for results and actions taken.
• Manage relationships within other departments in a fair, tactful and appropriate way