Senior Specialist: Legal at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

The purpose of the role is to manage and mitigate legal, regulatory and commercial risks by providing effective, concise, accurate and timely legal support and advice to the in-country Businesses.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• LLB Degree 
• Admitted as an attorney.
• 2-3 years' experience in a legal role in Life insurance. Africa experience is a must
• Working knowledge and understanding of the insurance and financial service sector.

Critical skills

• Commercial thinking and business acumen with an awareness of commercial objectives of the organisation.
• A good working knowledge of the legislation and regulations impacting the various jurisdictions in Africa
• Ability to negotiate settlements, resolve disputes and produce possible solutions.
• Ability to proactively identify issues that may affect the business.
• Applying effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication methods to achieve desired results
• Presents ideas effectively to individuals and groups.
• Confident and assertive with an understanding of themselves and the impact they have on others.
• Continuously learns and improves through applying an open and proactive approach to work.
• Shows pride and a love for the work that they perform.
• Attention to detail required, Analytical thinking.
• Results, solution and execution focused.
• Organized, Initiative and deadline driven.
• Self- management (planning, prioritizing & time management).
• Ability to efficiently deal with high volumes of work and work well under pressure.

Process

• Collaborate with different business areas to provide staff with knowledge and awareness of relevant laws, regulations and standards.
• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Provide accurate and meaningful legal advisory services to designated customers in relation to area of specialisation accountable for.
• Keep abreast of regulation and industry developments to advise and guide on key compliance risk issues; enabling informed decision making.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.

Customer

• Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Adhere to financial controls, governance and compliance policies and processes throughout an area of specialisation, contributing to cost efficiency.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Implement and provide feedback on the effectiveness of financial policy, practice and procedures: preventing illegal, unethical or improper conduct.
• Create awareness to ensure the effective implementation of changes in policy, laws, regulations and associated industry practices.
• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.

Technical Competencies

• Research and Information Gathering (Intermediate)
• General advisory and litigation services (Intermediate)
• Legal records / information systems (Intermediate)

Behavioural Competencies

• Relationship Management and Networking (Intermediate)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Intermediate)
• Governance, Ethics and Values (Intermediate)
• Professional/Technical learning (Intermediate)