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Legal Manager – Centralized Legal
Job Purpose:
This role works with the legal management team in the provision of legal advisory services and ensuring effective management of legal and contractual risks.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide exceptional legal support for Group Operations to the Director Legal and Senior Leadership, ensuring that the Group activities and initiatives comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Advise the segments on all matters requiring legal interpretation; provide Legal Advisory on requested/assigned matters through the provision of Legal Opinions, Presentations and participation in internal/external meetings.
- Overseeing and managing all any litigation that the Group may be involved in.
- Manage all legal obligations and responsibilities of the organization to ensure all business activities are compliant with the law by providing pro-active and/or strategic legal solutions to business problems, and assist to navigate complex legal and regulatory frameworks.
- Provide legal advice to the company on all legal matters including regulators and other parties. In particular, identify legal risks related to business operations, new products, services, or acquisitions; and ensuring legal protections for the organization are in place.
- Undertake Legal project management for key projects across the group, advising on legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions that the Group may be interested in.
- Manage and supervise external lawyers representing the company through efficient processes of legal panel management as well as empanelment and Service Level Life cycle management.
- Consolidated Legal Reporting for all group entities and effective management of reports across the group.
- Collaborate with functions and international business to manage legal risks..
- Keep abreast on upcoming laws and regulations ,providing and interpreting legal information, conducting training and disseminating appropriate legal requirements to staff and advise the business on implications.
- Initiate and formulate legal policies, procedures and manuals from a groupwide perspective.
- Reviewing all contracts or any other documentation where the Group has committed itself and assessing legal implications that need to be brought to the senior management’s attention.
- Preparing, reviewing and modifying contractual instruments and any other documentation assigned and assess legal implication that need to be brought to the attention of executive management to assist and support various business activities.
- Conduct legal research and investigation, develop oral and written advice and present recommendations to management.
- Ensure compliance and up to date records of all the SPV’s, LLP’s and Trademarks within the segment.
- Ensure Compliance with audit recommendations related to centralised legal.
- Ensure proper custody of Group LLPs, Original Titles ,Original Trademarks Certificates and register, contracts, project files and related documentation.
- Effective Management and implementation of legal strategy in disputes through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, case management, review of pleadings, preparation of witnesses and attendance of court hearings.
- Managing the group’s intellectual property portfolio, ensuring that IP rights are protected and enforced, and advising on the appropriate IP strategy for the Group.
- Advising on employment matters including labor relations, employee rights, benefits, and workplace disputes
- Advising on the company’s Sustainability/Impact initiatives and ensuring they align with legal requirements and ethical standards.
- Manage Legal documents and records and facilitate execution of legal documents in line with the Contract Management Policy.
- Facilitate and participate in training programmes initiated by the Legal Department.
- Assist in Board support activities such as taking minutes during Board and/or Committee meetings; and other secretarial tasks as requested from time to time.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
- Delegated authority; as per the approved delegated authority matrix.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Law.
- Master’s degree in Law (added advantage).
- Diploma in Law.
- Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
- Possess a valid practising licence.
- At least four 7-10 years’ experience in Law in a busy organization.
Key Competencies:
- In-depth understanding of corporate and commercial law.
- Strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Ability to initiate and drive-change.
- Legal writing and drafting – proficiency in communicating effectively through presentations.
- High Performer and Highly motivated.
- Attaches significant value to integrity and ethical conduct.
- Solution-oriented and innovative.
Senior Total Rewards Analyst
Job Purpose:
- The role holder will be responsible for the implementation and administration of the company’s total rewards strategies, programs, policies, and procedures in the areas of salary remuneration, pension and retirement plan mapping, commission and variable pay computation and non-cash benefit administration to staff with an aim of enhancing employee output and productivity.
- Application of hands-on expertise on people analytics, data, and HR technology tools for seamless delivery of employee experience.
Key responsibilities:
- Adopt and implement the Group Reward Strategy, covering salaries, bonuses, pensions, medical insurance, mortgage scheme, sales incentive plans and any other incentive offered to staff and financial advisors.
- Ensuring compliance with all the necessary statutory regulations and legislations in the various jurisdictions/countries where the group operates. Responsible for filing returns to government bodies and the application of compliance certifications.
- Support in benchmarking of key reward practices and annual remuneration surveys across the region. Carry out research in all countries that Britam operates and make recommendations on compensation and benefits based on remuneration trends and best practices in those jurisdictions.
- Develop proposals and strategies on recovery of non-performing loans, conduct loan analysis for all staff and the sales team to confirm eligibility of company incentives and benefits, administration of loans and mortgages to staff as well as liaise with third parties on valuation of asset loans.
- Implement the sales compensation policy in relation to financial advisors’ commissions, variable pay and bonuses.
- Responsible for ensuring payment processing for compliant financial advisors, recovery of dues and the development and design of the subsidy compensation framework for the sales network.
- Update of monthly finance reconciliations. Responsible for accurate costing of staff and financial advisors payroll deductions for posting in the general ledger.
- Ensure all staff are updated in the appropriate benefits schemes through monthly analysis checks. This includes update of staff in the pension scheme and mapping of financial advisors in their appropriate benefit categories.
- Conduct system audits to ensure accurate computation of commissions and variable pay to the sales network. Responsible for reviewing monthly commission files against the approved payment parameters inbuilt in the compensation system.
- Conduct benefit awareness campaigns to staff. Responsible for creating content on non-cash benefits available benefits to staff and making presentation to all stakeholders.
- Assist in the preparation and communication of compensation related changes guided by regulatory requirements to staff and financial advisors.
- Implement the approved annual performance framework of increments, promotions, and bonuses for all staff in the Britam group.
- Responsible of capturing compensation changes and review of the payroll variance based on these changes.
- Prepare payroll trend analysis including adverse trend identification and course correction so as to ensure effective application of reward policies and procedures.
- Responsible for payment of final dues and benefits for staff exiting the company. This includes basic pay, leave day liability for staff and cashier bonds for the sales network.
- Lead SPOC in the design and implementation of system improvements aimed towards data accuracy, operation efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Responsible for management and payment of out of payroll benefits which include salary advances to staff, commissions and bonuses to financial advisors.
- Support the Britam Staff Annual Budgeting process including the cost implications of the annual workforce planning.
- Delegated authority as per the approved delegated authority matrix.
Key Performance Measures:
- As described in your Personal Scorecard.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
- Professional qualification in related studies.
- Knowledge of insurance regulatory compensation requirements.
- 5-6 years HR experience, with full responsibility for administering employee compensation and benefits.
Technical/ Functional competencies:
- Research and data analysis skills.
- Knowledge in Employee Tax policies and procedures.
- Knowledge in Retirement Benefits rules and procedures.
- Knowledge in commissions and variable pay administration.
- Knowledge in Payroll Administration.
- Knowledge in Loans and benefits administration.
Method of Application
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