Legal Counsel - (546) at BankservAfrica

Your key responsibilities include:

• Provide simplified business-focused legal solutions to complex matters
• To provide excellent Legal services, including general legal advice, to BankservAfrica
• Managing contracts, negotiating contract terms and conditions, supplier management, and all associated matters
• Provide regulatory analysis and develop positions to represent BankservAfrica’s interests in the payments industry
• Assist in necessary legislative research as required
• Provide support to the Legal Services Department on projects
• Draft legal opinions and memoranda
• Ensure that legal risks are adequately addressed and mitigated
• Advise business of how future legal changes will impact on the business    
• Identify legal risks affecting the organisation on all matters relating to legal advice, legal opinions, legislation and other regulatory commentary and interpretation, standard and non-standard agreements or legal documentation, intellectual property and litigation, and ad hoc matters referred to legal

QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE

• An admitted attorney with an LLB degree or equivalent
• Computer literate

EXPERIENCE

• At least 5 – 6 years post qualification experience at a reputable law firm or as a corporate lawyer in a corporate environment in respect of contractual and         commercial matters
• Have knowledge of Information technology and payments regulatory experience(preferable)
• Corporate and Commercial law
• Competition law(preferable)
• Financial Regulatory experience
• Contract law