Senior Manager: Legal at Cellulant Corporation

Cellulant is a digital payments business. We run an ecosystem of consumers, merchants and banks in which we facilitate payments and build value through the value-added services we layer on top. In building this ecosystem we serve different types of customers with different products, in a range that includes mobile banking products, mobile credit products, US...

 

Senior Manager: Legal

  • Job TypeRemote
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience10 years
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldLaw / Legal 

Reports to:

Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer.

Key Relationships and Stakeholders:

Business, Product, Technology, Regulators, External Legal Counsel, Company Secretaries, and other counterparties.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As the Senior Manager: Legal at Cellulant, you will play a pivotal role in our management team. This position is instrumental in bolstering a culture of strict compliance, by continuously updating our Risk Compliance Officer (GCRCO), executive board, and other management tiers on all relevant existing and emerging legislation and regulations, ensuring their relevance and applicability to Cellulant.

A significant facet of this role encompasses supervising legal operations within Cellulant. This will involve delegating duties to a proficient team of legal experts and other personnel to assure adherence to laws and regulations in daily operations.

As the Senior Manager: Legal, you will serve as the key advisor to our board of directors, CEO, and Cellulant's executive team on all legal concerns. Your expert advice will shape a comprehensive and efficient legal framework, thereby enabling Cellulant to conduct business seamlessly and lawfully in all markets in which we operate.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide expert advice on various laws, regulations, and standards applicable in different jurisdictions, including international directives impacting the business.
  • Assist in interpreting laws and regulations to facilitate the design of compliant business strategies.
  • Implement crucial legal and compliance processes, including the drafting, negotiation, and review of commercial and other agreements.
  • Prepare and safeguard the business interests in commercial contracts, courts of law, and other dispute resolution platforms when necessary.
  • Educate Cellulant's staff and leadership on legal implications, regulatory requirements, and the potential risks of non-compliance.
  • Help the business comprehend risks and opportunities presented by new and forthcoming laws and regulations.
  • Supervise the delivery of legal services and resources to achieve corporate objectives, strategies, and priorities.
  • Maintain effective corporate relations with relevant local, state, federal, regional, and international bodies, ensuring Cellulant remains current with the ever-changing regulatory landscape.
  • Oversee Group Board Governance operations, including board meetings and Annual General Meetings (AGMs).
  • Provide secretarial services for Executive Committee meetings as scheduled.
  • Provide ad-hoc legal advice to the business on diverse matters, such as employment issues.
  • Supervise the management of relations with external legal counsel and monitor all ongoing cases and disputes before courts and tribunals.
  • Manage budgetary considerations for the Legal team.
  • Oversee the Legal function ensuring a smooth operation.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

  • A substantial amount of legal and leadership experience with a minimum of 10 years of experience practising law with 5 of those years spent in a management or leadership role.
  • Possess a bachelor’s degree.
  • MUST be a practising lawyer.
  • Experience working in a FinTech, insurance or financial institution.
  • Cross border Africa experience and having worked in both the Francophile and Anglophile cultures and markets will be a bonus.
  • Administration of the corporate secretariat.
  • Corporate governance, risk and control.
  • Managing stakeholder relations.

SKILLS:

  • Broad legal knowledge and expertise.
  • Leadership and management skills.
  • Good interpersonal relations and communication skills.
  • Ability to identify and analyse complex issues/problems in management areas, recommend and implement solutions
  • Strong Business/Commercial acumen.
  • Ability to manage office functions economically and efficiently.
  • Can evaluate and weigh all legal aspects and/or situations, and provide sound solutions to protect the business's legal rights.
  • The ability to evaluate options and provide sound practical solutions.
  • Displays excellent supervisory and leadership skills.
  • Awareness of market forces, politics and economics and their relation to changing laws and regulations.
  • The ability to provide practical commercial legal advice to stakeholders and non-legal personnel.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise with those at all levels.
  • Ability to delegate legal tasks to team members and the confidence to provide senior management with legal recommendations.
  • Public speaking skills and the ability to present and defend legal argument.
  • The ability to manage risk effectively.
  • Negotiation skills.
  • An integral and discretionary approach.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

  • Integrity.
  • Crisis management.
  • Ethics and compliance.
  • Good Judgement.
  • Fluency in English (written and spoken) and French at business level, will be an added advantage.
  • The ability to listen, learn and be open-minded.
  • Passionate about well-done teamwork.
  • Able to influence.
  • Honest and responsible.
  • Advanced sense of leadership and team spirit.
  • Positive interpersonal relationships.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Cellulant Corporation on cellulant-group.breezy.hr to apply

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