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Job purpose

• Responsible for driving legal projects and activities relating to the General Counsel’s Office function, servicing  South Africa and assisting the General Counsel with servicing Africa - with special emphasis on reviewing and negotiating various contracts and providing internal legal advice to other teams across service lines while adhering to EY’s internal policies (both locally and internationally). Negotiating of software licence agreements part of scope.
• The candidate will report to the General Counsel, Africa Region.

Duties and responsibilities will include the following:  

General Counsel Office (GCO):

The Commercial Lawyer (Senior Manager) will assist the GCO with the following tasks across the Africa Region of EY, and across all service lines in the EY Africa Region with an initial focus on the Tax Service Line -

• General - Drafting and negotiating various agreements across audit and advisory service lines, including global framework agreements, local implementation agreements, service level agreements, technology agreements, intellectual property agreements, procurement agreements, confidentiality agreements and data usage agreements;
• Ability to advise leadership team and engagement teams on all current commercial contracts( eg. Structuring, development of templates);
• Reviewing and contributing to drafting firm policies including authority and delegations framework;
• Supporting the Assurance service line on all legal matters;
• Acquisitions – current legal work on local acquisitions including working with external counsel on deal structure and acquisition agreements, coordination with other members of Legal for cross-border acquisitions;
• Corporate law – Advise regional cluster leader and manage co-sec legal compliance work on all legal entities;
• Litigation – Coordination of litigation matters in close relationship with Africa Regional General Counsel and relevant Quality Service Line Leader (including risks and prospects analysis and briefing external legal counsel);
• Providing advice to business units on potential claims as well as forming part of special ad hoc panels to manage the risk of potential claims;
• Providing input/reporting to legal risk committee;

Assist the GCO in the rendering services of the following to the service lines:

• Reviewing and negotiating Engagement letters suggested clients changes to of amendments to EY’s standard terms and conditions,
• Terms of Business, Reviewing, negotiating and drafting various agreements across various service lines (including Advisory, Tax, Transactions, and Assurance) including but not limited to – Hold harmless letters,
• Confidentiality and Request for Tenders, Bid submissions or Request for Proposal,

Reviewing various agreements inclusive of the following type of agreements:

• Sponsorship Agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Service level agreements
• Global framework agreements
• Responses to requests for proposals/bids 
• Teaming agreements
• Consortium agreements
• Subcontractor agreements
• Service provider Agreement
• Secondment Agreements
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Any other bespoke agreement required by the service lines
• Consider the legal risks in the agreements inclusive of Limitation of Liability – request to exceed normal limit;
• Provision of internal legal opinions to as requested by the service lines or the General Counsel negotiation, drafting/reviewing of agreements and other legal documentation;
• Assistance dealing  with managing disputes and litigation matters(commercial) , and compliance, legislative and regulatory requirements as requested by the General Counsel;
• Consultations and drafting of all types of contracts and agreements but specifically those in respect of business relationships, consortia, subcontracting arrangements, alliances and secondments;
• Dealing with subpoenas and claims brought against the firm;
• Manage the Master Template Database of contract and other legal precedents;
• Assist in the maintenance of a register of legal work done;
• Assist in the maintenance of register of deviations from standard contract terms;
• Drafting and research for legal opinions. Research on matters as required by the General Counsel;
• Assistance with Projects as undertaken by the GCO;
• Assistance with the notification of claims and circumstances project (which happens twice a year);
• Liaison with external legal practitioners, and Ernst & Young (EMIA) and Global (EYG), where appropriate;
• Attending to data privacy review of EY applications;
• Assistance with selected areas of compliance issues; 
• Assist with legal support to the Africa EY practices on various legal matters;

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor of laws degree         
• Solid commercial drafting, reviewing and negotiating skills
• Extensive experience in negotiating software agreements
• Business acumen
• Experience within a similar industry sector and/or financial services
• Exposure across the African continent would be beneficial
• Top administration skills with a high proficiency in the use of Microsoft office programmes
• Excellent relationship skills which sometimes may be tested when dealing with pressure      
• Assertive, proactive and energetic
• Willingness to work overtime when necessary
• Strong team player
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Well rounded corporate and commercial experience
• Experience in an auditing firm and with compliance and company secretarial matters will be an advantage
• Adaptive and ability to think on your feet
• Decision making capabilities
• Ability to manage with matters with little or no assistance
• Flexibility to travel if required

Key Requirements

• Qualified to practice law in South Africa.
• At least 7 years of post-qualification legal experience, preferably with an international law firm and/or multi-national corporation with at least a significant portion of such experience occurring in South Africa.
• Ideally, in-depth experience of the professional services industry.
• Developed commercial awareness with an outcome orientated approach and the ability to apply legal principles pragmatically.

Other Personal Characteristics

• Unquestioned ethics and integrity.
• High level of self-confidence and energy.
• High level of intellectual agility, initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness, and patience.
• Pragmatic with strong business acumen.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.

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• The Africa Assurance Innovation and Digital Data Delivery Manager (“DDM”) will play a key role in the Innovation and Digital team.  The DDM will be responsible for managing the overall delivery of the digital solutions that are on offer from the Innovation and Digital Team for a portfolio of audit clients.  
• The DDM will also be fundamental in achieving the overall strategy of the Data and Intelligence Delivery Centre of Excellence.
• The Go to Markets (GTM) Lead will be responsible to building the bridge between our clients and the EY Assurance digital offerings through our Go to Markets initiatives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage the delivery of the digital solutions that are on offer from the Innovation and Digital Team for a portfolio of clients.
• Challenge the audit engagement team for the allocated portfolio of clients to generate the right demand for digital solutions, based on tools that will support the execution of the audit and the sharing of client insights with the audit client.
• Understand the full spectrum of digital solutions offered at a level which allows an establishment whether it is a good fit for the audit engagement team and when to escalate tool usage to the Implementation Team.
• Proactively engage with each audit engagement team early on in the client’s financial year to establish the data support plan.
• Through discussion with the audit team, help define project scope, goals and deliverables.
• Define the timing, tasks and required resources for the SA DD support request.
• Deep dive into data complexities and problem solve with data analyst, client and audit teams.
• Work with the audit team to understand the data landscape.
• Manage budget throughout the life of the data support so that overruns are identified early and charged appropriately.
• Grow, manage and enable junior DDM’s.
• Track deliverables and escalate blockages or changes in expected completion timelines according to the established escalation protocols.
• Identify shortfalls in the digital solutions that are on offer and share that with the product owners for resolution.
• Participate in solution design sessions to assist the Data and Intelligence Delivery and Centre of Excellence Leader to make the delivery process more effective and efficient.
• Implement and manage change when necessary to meet the delivery timelines.
• Evaluate and assess result of deliveries in order to deliver a summary of success or challenges to key stakeholders.
• Assist with operational management tasks for the South Africa Data and Intelligence delivery centre
• Manage the Go to Market initiatives with the GTM team and focus on building the bridge between our clients and the EY Assurance digital offering.
• Lead Go to Markets team through weekly meetings, ongoing project tracking, and proactive management key GTM initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader business priorities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Creative Services, and internal stakeholders to amplify Go to Market messaging and ensure cohesive representation of the Innovation and Digital strategy.

Required Skills and Experiences:

• Newly qualified CAs with an understanding of audit and data
• Strong desire to help and collaborate with the teams and leadership to enhance quality
• Strong risk management skills
• Demonstrates commitment in closing out key deliverables
• Integrity and objectivity and the courage to raise concerns 
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to identify and manage potential conflict
• Strong people and teaming skills with a commitment to the firm’s diversity and inclusiveness efforts
• Strong project management skills
• Creative thinker and problem solver

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Introduction

• We are looking for a hardworking, ambitious, energetic and self-driven Sage X3 developer with a proven track record of experience in developing and implementing Sage X3 ERP solutions. If you have a keen interest in technological advancement, software development and the implementation of software business solutions, this might just be the ideal opportunity for you.

Direct Responsibilities

• Actively participates as a member of the development team in both core and custom development projects delivered to customers.
• Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents.
• Perform coding to written technical specifications.
• Investigate, analyse and document reported defects.
• Perform maintenance programming and correction of identified defects.
• Document the technical solution before, during and after the delivery of the agreed scope to the consultants and customers.
• Create, document, and implement unit test plans, scripts, and test harnesses.
• Create and maintain technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates.
• Development of new software as well as maintenance of existing legacy software.
• Provides technical assistance in supporting pre-sales, sales and professional services departments where required (this may also include direct technical support to customers)

Project Planning

• Establish and define the execution plan, with set priorities and goals for the project, taking into account all stakeholder inputs and the intended strategic direction of the project.
• Determine project schedules and delivery dates with the Technical Lead of each team.
• Manage and monitor time frames based on project schedules continuously to ensure the successful delivery of the product to the market.

Project Execution and Monitoring

• Effectively implement the agile and scrum methodology mind-set to manage projects.
• Manage the project by providing direction, delegating tasks and monitoring outcomes of product delivery.
• Implement structures to effectively manage product execution from the analysis of requirements, design, development, quality assurance and the delivery of the final product.
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on project progress and execution.

Experience and qualifications

• We are looking for a developer with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in Sage X3 software development.
• A completed BCom\ Bsc degree or equivalent tertiary qualification would be preferred.
• The successful candidate will be someone with a strong drive for results and success and a willingness to see tough tasks through to successful completion, especially under the pressure of tight deadlines.
• A strong interest in software and consulting would be an advantage.

Additional skills required

• Strong interpersonal/relationship building skills
• Analytical thinking
• Accuracy and a strong attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines under pressure (conscientious)
• Ability to work independently as well as perform in a matrix project environment
• Strong ability to work in partnership and collaboration with other members of business solutions teams
• Structured approach to problem-solving and project execution