The Position is at the level of the group and therefore is at the senior Management level, accordingly the purpose and critical functions would be as follows :
Function (Dept) Purpose : To legally safeguard the organization
Role Purpose : To facilitate legal compliance and leverage (for all functions and businesses, in all aspects of their functioning)
The Key Expectations of the Role :
- To design and optimize processes, policies and practices for comprehensively addressing the legal issues
- To formally identify and prepare for a range of possible legal contingencies
- To build and sustain a responsive and systematically functioning team (internal and external)
- Decentralized (evidence based) decision making environment
The Competencies required to effectively take on this role :
- Familiarity with wide range of business-related laws, procedures, precedents and practices
- High level of legal drafting skills
- Conceptualization skills
- Systematic in approach to work
- Problem solving orientation towards challenges
- Sensitivity to evidence-based-change of hypotheses
The Person :
- CA with Legal orientation. LLB degree would be preferred.
- Corporate experience of at least 20 years with 5 years in a senior management position in the Taxation and Legal functions of a mid-sized firm.
- Experience in a multi-business firm would be an added advantage
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