Job Description

General Information

Job ID
31249
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Work Types
Permanent
Categories
Client Corporate Secretarial, Entity Management

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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world.


As we're a global company with 11,000+ colleagues based in over 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.

Discover the Role

It is an area experiencing significant growth in TMF, thus providing an opportunity for great career development.

Key Responsibilities

Fulfil Business Legal's role in the second line of defence within TMF, enhancing a central legal risk management. Actively participate in relevant local board and local committee meetings and market management meetings to advise and guide local management on relevant legal matters. Work with relevant stakeholder to ensure alignment of market legal budgeting matters. Update market management and Group Legal on legal developments in the market. Discover training opportunities to increase awareness in legal areas and provide legal training to the market. Facilitate the first line of defence within TMF with local implementation of global legal policies, procedures and standards, ensuring compliance with group legal policies, procedures and standards as well as local legislative requirements. Work with the Market Head to operationalise and embed effective controls and practices; Proactively monitor the implementation of global legal policies, procedures, standards and local legal requirements. Perform second line testing in connection with Group Legal and Group Director Legal. Provide remediation support to the first line of defence within TMF. Ensuring high-quality in-house legal service delivery with high business impact (Pro-actively) advise on and support the market management with the following legal topics: data privacy, cosec, local client contracting, regulatory strategic advice, procurement, legal entity management, various registrations, intercompany agreements, HR support and remediating internal audit findings. + Responsible for advising on correspondence with authorities and escalate to Group Legal and/or market management when necessary.
+ Work with Group Privacy Office to ensure that the market establishes adequate governance on data processing activities, perform regular data inventory maintenance, avoid/handle data breaches in a proper manner to avoid/mitigate the legal risk.
+ Work with the Group procurement & real estate team to ensure compliance with local legislative requirements.
+ Work with Group Corporate & Claims to ensure adequate support in restructuring and M&A matters, enhance collaboration on board governance, cosec matters, legal entity management and intragroup intercompany agreements.
+ Work with Group Corporate & Claims to ensure timely reporting of legal cases and control of related external spend together with market legal counsels.
+ Work with Group Global Client Contracting to ensure the local implementation of LSA templates and standards, and timely escalations in accordance with the LSA escalation matrix.
+ Facilitate the delivery of yearly Global Legal Priorities & KPI's, contributing to the success of TMF strategy
+ Understands, operationalises and supports the delivery of the Global Legal Priorities & KPI's at the market level.
+ Suggests market strategy, execute and resolve bottlenecks with the Director Legal to improve progress on the Global Legal Priorities & KPI's in the market.
+ Ensures accurate reporting on progress on the Global Legal Priorities & KPI's.

Key Requirements

Has relevant Legal degree That has lots of Cosec experience Are managing a team. i.e. is a manager or operating at manager level Some understanding of legal/compliance aspects data privacy/breaches

What's in it for you?

An exciting opportunity in an international company


Professional development opportunities as well as extensive individual further training opportunities, supported by our TMF Business Academy


A career within an ever evolving market


Flat hierarchies with direct contact to management and international exchange


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