Job Description

9669//Johannesburg//
R HIGHLY NEGOTIABLE PLUS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUS
Our client is a London based wealth management company, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The company focusses on building long-term wealth for their clients. For South African clients they only focus on their offshore investments. The company employs more than 90 highly skilled staff and has more than 3.2bn assets under administration. The company is a young, dynamic company with a flat management structure, providing the candidate with an ideal environment to achieve mutual growth goals. The company is an international independent wealth management business, established in 1998. The company's cornerstone principles are to provide clients with a personal service focusing on long-term success and to build relationships based on trust. This results in meaningful and lasting relationships between the company and its clients. The company has offices in South Africa and the United Kingdom, with associated office in Australia.
They now seek a qualified lawyer with financial services experience to report to the COO.
JOB DESCRIPTION WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

• You will be required to provide general support to the legal, compliance and HR functions within the company groups with a broad range of duties, with a particular focus on legal issues in SA and in relation to work being undertaken for the business units that the Legal department supports in the UK and SA and ad hoc projects being undertaken;
• You will be responsible for generally assisting other members of the legal team with corporate legal work in SA and the UK, compliance and regulatory matters in SA, human resources in SA, transactional work, company secretarial work mainly in SA and generally assisting with all such legal and other tasks (commensurate with your status) as you may reasonably be requested to do;
• You will be responsible for maintaining company registers, drafting company resolutions, minutes and other corporate governance documents (UK, SA and BVI) and undertaking registrar filings as required;
• You will be responsible for managing and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations particularly with POPIA, including handling data privacy inquiries, data breaches, DSAR's, maintaining secure records and assisting with the implementation of data protection policies and procedures;
• You will be responsible for reviewing, negotiating and drafting agreements with service providers, NDA's and other commercial contracts;
• You will be responsible for assisting with the preparation of agreements for new clients, mainly for financial intermediary arrangements in SA, new deals with existing clients or introducers. This may take the form of supporting sales, relationship and client service managers in their commercial negotiations, or directly engaging with client's legal advisors to resolve technical issues;
• You will be responsible for ensuring that all company template documents are consistently up to date;
• You will be responsible for carrying out such legal research as may be required;
• You will be responsible for keeping up to date with the legal and regulatory environment (in SA and the UK) and providing regular summaries of developments relevant to the business;
• You will be responsible for supporting the HR function by preparing contracts for SA employees, assisting in performance reviews, terminations and related tasks, conducting legal inductions for new joiners in SA and assisting with updates to staff handbook and other communications with staff;
• You will be responsible for dealing with ad hoc legal queries from the business;
• You will be responsible for assisting with responses to KYC / RFI requests and audit support for the business and assisting with other ad hoc administrative tasks;
• You will be responsible for carrying out all such other functions and giving such advice and / or assistance as the company and / or any other company in the group of companies may reasonably require, from time to time and as the Board may require including such functions as would normally be provided by an attorney.

CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• You are hard working;
• You have the ability to work independently and as part of a team;
• You have a keen eye for detail;
• You have strong time management skills;
• You have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills in English;
• You have the capability to prioritize tasks in order to meet deadlines.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• You have the appropriate experience in the financial services sector and have a legal degree , completed articles and experience with FS clients.
• You have a minimum of 3 years' current, relevant PQE or experience preferably working in the financial services sector with exposure to corporate governance and POPIA with broad exposure to corporate / commercial work and HR work;
• You are proficient in Microsoft Suite
• You have experience of working in the regulated financial services sector;
• You have a demonstrable interest in corporate / commercial law and/or data protection law, underpinned by a good level of knowledge of relevant rules and legislation;
• You are confident in navigating the company law regime (in SA), with enthusiasm for maintaining a high level of responsibility for company secretarial compliance in SA and the UK / BVI if required;
• You have knowledge of relevant FSCA rules and desire to learn the FCA rules;
• You have a solid understanding of commercial contracts law principles;
• You have a basic grounding in anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and know your client / due diligence requirements.

Great team - 400 staff - and highly successful offering to HNWC. Great role; friendly smart people work here!