Manager - Legal & Compliance - BFSI/Retail - LLB/LLM

DesignationManager - Legal & Compliance (TBA)

Department: Management

Reports to: Director - Finance

Purpose of the Job

To advise and support the board in:

- Setting up and ensuring legal compliance of the Directors BVI interests, Retail Operations and Investments

- Structuring and setting up offshore and onshore companies and investments

- Evaluating and ensuring legal structure and compliance of existing retail companies and investments

- Keeping accurate and updated records

Key Accountabilities

Strategic :

- Focus on continuous improvement in terms of legal practices ensuring maximum benefit to the stakeholders

Financial :

- Interacting with Tax Lawyers for assessments

- Evaluating and structuring existing and upcoming contracts

Operational

- Providing support and assisting Senior Management in managing the corporate documentation, drafting and vetting of Contracts/ Agreements, legal transactions and mitigating legal risk.

- Taking care of Senior Management's Taxation and drafting wills

- Identifying and driving development of legal strategies for business; managing internal client expectations to balance requirements and competing priorities; providing useful legal advice and alternative solutions

- Advising the Directors- on changing legal and statutory norms across geographies

- Spearheading complete GCC and managing contracts for Middle East Region & Saudi Arabia

- Negotiating drafting and vetting Franchise Agreements Distributions Agreements, Sale and Purchase Agreement, Supplier Agreement, Manufacturing Agreement, Retailer Agreement, License Agreement

- Interacting with local law firms, counsels, governmental and regulatory authorities and business teams in GCC region.

- Ensuring legal compliance across the Directors personal affairs as well in corporate operations

- Engaging in periodical legal audits of existing contracts and operations

- Undertake regular analysis to help identify legal risks and to safeguard against them

- Optimising the set-up of Directors- companies, trusts etc with proper legal compliance and structure

- Evaluating and optimising the operations of current companies and corporate investments with proper legal compliance and structure

- Maintaining up to date records

Education and Certification

- Bachelor's Degree in Law/ Master in Law (LLB/LLM)

- Additional Certification in contracts would be desirable.

Knowledge and Skills

- Sound knowledge of corporate laws with mindset to keep abreast of changes in Iaws.

- Expertise in BVI laws and investments

- Expertise in setting up trusts, ensuring Compliance, Drafting contracts, wills etc.

- Have an eye for detail, ability to independently draft agreements.

- Ability to network and have good interpersonal skills

- Commercially savvy to understand impact of legal decisions on Business and to find solutions

- Ability to work as an individual contributor with quick turnaround time.

- Ability to deliver under pressure and engage in several projects simultaneously/ multiskilling.

- Ability to cope with high levels of responsibility and with confidential matters.

Experience

- 5 - 8 years of experience working in similar roles

- Experience working in the retail industry in the GCC is an added advantage