Job Summary
Our company is searching for a motivated and experienced Legal and Compliance officer to guarantee that our business processes and transactions follow all relevant legal and internal guidelines. Your duties will include reviewing employee work, developing company policies, and responding to policy violations.
The ideal candidate will be professional, highly-analytical, and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
To prosper in this role, you should be fluent in risk management and our industry’s principles.
Responsibilities :
- Implement and manage an effective legal compliance program.
- Develop and review company policies.
- Advise management on the company’s compliance with laws and regulations through detailed reports.
- Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
- Regularly audit company procedures, practices, and documents to identify possible weaknesses or risks.
- Assess company operations to determine compliance risk.
- Ensure all employees are educated on the latest regulations and processes.
- Resolve employee concerns about legal compliance.
- Managing legal risks and be the custodian of the group's legal documents.
- Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders,
- Conduct legal research and provide advice to Exco to ensure business is compliant with legislation and or / regulatory codes and / or best industry practice.
- Drafting of agendas ,minutes, resolutions, and other company documentation.
- Managing the corporate calander
- Distribution of corporate documents
- Statutory record keeping
- Statutory submissions
- Attend Board Committee meetings and offer advise as required, including commercial contracts, procurement, employment matters,
- Ensure registration compliance with government bodies and / or regulators,
- Implement Compliance ,Risk and Internal Monitoring programmes,
- Review all VNL processes and documentation in all departments and all companies to ensure compliance with Companies Act, POPI, Cyber Crime, and King IV,
- Conduct corporate governance reviews and ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements,
- Report on non-compliance.
- Creating Legislative and legal environment awareness in the business and arrange/ provide training where necessary,
- Maintain strong working relationships with and have open and transparent communication between all members of the finance department,
- Develop and maintain relationships with external financial institutions and other external relationships relating to the role,
- Develop and maintain relationships with all regulatory external parties.
Requirements :
- Bachelor’s degree in law, legal advisor, finance, business management, or a related field.
- 3 – 5 years’ proven experience in a compliance officer role.
- Good knowledge of legal requirements and procedures.
- Brilliant oral and written communication skills.
- Highly-analytical with strong attention to detail,
- Legal, Compliance and Risk principles,
- Policy drafting and review,
- Hospitality & Tourism Industry experience beneficial.
