Legal Advisor

About: Provision of legal advisory for the Central Services Division of an international financial services firm. Focus: procurement of digital and tech services.

Description

• Manage matters from various business units such as: Digital and Technology, SA Group Marketing, and various central support services including but not limited to Procurement, Finance, ESG, and Facilities.
• Understand business requirements, internal agreed processes, and established risk thresholds in order to negotiate and oversee the contracting process end-to-end.
• Build and maintain strong, mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external parties and vendors.

General Capabilities

• Good commercial awareness: ability to quickly understand benefit and/or risk/s in a deal/transaction or proposal and be able to apply your experience and legal knowledge and convey same to leadership.
• Must have demonstrable experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating binding documents in general.

Specific Requirements

• Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
• Experience in IT especially licensing agreements, cloud and SaaS related projects, SOWs, SLAs, AI, and data protection/privacy.
• Demonstrable experience in working with market data contracts and in particular with exchanges globally and vendors in the market data space.
• Experience in managing work which impacts any Regulator requirements.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the newest technologies or trends trending globally.
• Experience working with vendors and other external third parties in any demonstrable capacity.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Ability to confidently convey advice or strategy to management and senior leadership in person and in writing.
• Ability to work with high volumes and to deadlines.
• Willingness to work effectively with others.

About the job

Contract Type: Permanent

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Location: Johannesburg

Specialism: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Focus: Tech & Telecomms

Industry: Legal

Salary: Negotiable

Job Reference: 5G6O0F-B79F58AD

Date posted: 05 August 2024

Consultant: Angela Reilly

Our client, in the vehicle safety solutions industry, is looking for a skilled Senior Legal Advisor who is skilled in litigation (or has experience in various litigation matters) and an individual who has strong contract drafting and negotiation skills to join their team.

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