Workplace Experience Student: Legal at Tiger Brands

Job Description
THE JOB AT A GLANCE:

• Within your functional work stream you will deliver timeous and accurate administrative and specialised support to the Company Secretariat and Governance team, with additional support to other lawyers within the Legal Function, as required. You will be expected to drive processes and systems with diligence and efficiency to ensure compliance with the regulatory, legislative and good corporate governance requirements and practices. The candidate must be able to get up to speed quickly and be prepared to be flexible and adaptable in responding to the changing needs of the business and the Company Secretariat and Governance Department, and overall Legal Function, to the extent necessary

Responsibilities
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TABLE:
Key Attributes and Competencies

• Provide support for meetings, including preparations of agendas, distribution of meeting packs and compiling the minutes
• Assist in processes relating to appointments of directors and trustees, liaising with the relevant regulatory bodies
• Engage with relevant Company Secretariat internal and external stakeholders
• Deal with ethics related matters, primarily the declaration of interest processes and systems overall
• Conduct research on legislative, regulatory and governance good practice standards for the Company Secretariat and other Lawyers within the Legal Function
• Tracking the legislative and regulatory development alerts from relevant online platforms
• Ensure the company’s website is updated with accurate information pertaining to corporate governance
• Upgrade the Legal Function intranet to serve as a resourceful repository of information for the business
• Provide support on year-end activities relating to the governance portfolio
• Assist with drafting of resolutions for subsidiary entities and related trusts
• Ensure timeous submission/filing of annual returns and relevant documentation to CIPC and perform ancillary tasks
• Analyse the Legal Function policies to ensure appropriate controls are in place for compliance purposes
• Attend to FICA requests and ad hoc correspondences received from the business
• Manage the master diary for the company’s corporate law and JSE listings requirements compliance obligations

Qualifications
ESSENTIAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• LLB or related qualification
• Advanced level proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Excellent grammatical and editing capability