Company Secretary /Head of Legal(LLB) Life Insurance Industry at The Human Capital Group (Pty) Ltd

The Key Performance Areas for the position include responsibility for:

• Providing company secretarial and advisory services in the group.
• Providing legal counsel and advice in the company.
• Maintaining statutory books as required in the company.
• Submitting statutory reports in terms of the companies act as well is the life insurance industry.
• Contributing to the preparation of annual reports.
• Preparing documentation for the board and board subcommittees.
• Researching governance and corporate law and related matters and preparing opinions and reports and memoranda.
• All contracts, agreements, and legal documentation in the company.
• Corporate governance in the company.
• Advising the board in respect of corporate governance principles.
• Implementing risk management frameworks and programs.
• A comprehensive advisory service in the group, relating also to the regulatory framework in the insurance industry, prudential and market conduct, and representation on industry bodies.
• Ensuring good internal and external stakeholder relationships as it pertains to the company secretarial function in the group.

Requisite Qualifications,Skills and  Experience

The successful incumbent will:

• Hold a law degree (at least LLB) and be an admitted attorney.
• A CIS qualification will be advantageous.
• Have a demonstrable record of achievement as Legal Advisor/Head of Legal in the financial services industry, preferably life insurance.
• Have a minimum of 10 years’ post qualification experience in the governance and compliance and company secretarial environment, preferably in the financial services environment.
• Have sound knowledge of and comprehensive expert understanding of corporate governance and company secretarial practices and procedures.
• Have proven legal knowledge and skills, specifically pertaining to company law and the accompanying regulations, with a special emphasis on application in the insurance industry.
• Have a sound knowledge of potential & market conduct legislation.
• Have an ability to drive the compilation, implementation and management of corporate governance processes and procedures in the group.
• Have proven skills and experience in rendering comprehensive board secretarial services, including minute taking.

In addition, the successful incumbent will:

• Have an excellent command of the English language (total fluency is mandatory).
• Be an astute business person with the gravitas to operate at group level.
• Be strategically and commercially astute.
• Have well-developed leadership and management skills and the gravitas and confidence to manage upwards as well.
• Have well-developed analytical management skills including problem-solving and decision-making.
• Display and exercise pedantic attention to detail and accompanying accuracy in all matters.
• Be emotionally mature, driven and assertive as well as team oriented.
• Have well developed interpersonal skills with an emphasis on the ability to influence and persuade and negotiate at all levels.
• Have well developed and proven communication skills at individual as well as group level. (Well developed written and verbal skills go without saying).
• Be computer literate.