Job Vacancies at Macdonald & Company

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Get your foot in the door of a growing team. A leading financial services company is enjoying high volumes of growth into new markets. This increase in products is resulting in physical expansion into new towns across the county, which in turn has resulted in a very busy real estate team. Tasked with finding new sites and negotiating lease terms with landlords all over South Africa, they find themselves swamped with the paperwork that surrounds leases. This includes shareholder agreements, financial statements, FICA documents, memorandums of understanding, heads of agreements and various other ad hoc documents. They are looking to appoint a highly organised individual to assist this team in managing the back office requirements for up to 20 new transactions every 6 months. It will suit someone who has some understanding of commercial leases, who is highly proficient on MS Excel, Word and Outlook and who has a 'do whatever it takes attitude'.

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Don't be office bound! As a highly reputable financial services provider, our client is leveraging a long standing history to launch a fairly new product in micro-lending. Aimed at assisting small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs in securing short term finance, they are looking to grow a retail network which can make this service available at grass roots level. They aim to open a considerable amount of new branches in rural or less affluent areas of South Africa. To assist in achieving this, they are looking to appoint a recently admitted attorney to source new sites and negotiate lease terms with landlords or property developers across the country. This will entail not only consistent communication with property funds and brokers, but also significant travel to all sites to ensure that the premises are fit for purpose, well positioned and as described in documentation. To fit into this small but busy team, you will be a pro-active individual with strong negotiation skills, who will mitigate the company's risk in all respects of leases signed. But this is not about sitting behind a desk signing leases - its about finding appropriate new sites for the business, convincing landlords to lease them to you, and then ensuring the best possible lease terms for the tenant. Apply if you are happy to travel regularly, have your own car and are an admitted attorney.