Contract Management and Administration Officer at Willers Solutions

Job Description
Contract Management and Administration:

• Develop, negotiate and evaluate contracts on behalf of the Company.
• Advise and enforce the company's rights and ensure the company meets its obligations in each project by communicating expectations to relevant departments.
• Monitor key contract dates to ensure all contract terms are applied timely and correctly.
• Manage legal, project, and contracting risks of the company and ensure that any contractual or legal matter affecting the Project execution is properly addressed.
• Liaise with other departments and third-party representatives regularly to address issues that may arise from each contract renewal, contract award, contract resolution, and contract follow-up action items.
• Provide contract status reports to management for review.
• Carry out evaluations and provide close-out reports for each project and identify gaps and areas of improvement.
• Assist the other team in preparing requests and responses for contractual interpretations and providing responses to requests for contract clarification, deviations, or changes.

Compliance:

• Ensure that business operations are in line with all applicable laws, regulations, best practices, internal policies, and procedures.
• Prepare compliance documentation for statutory, legal, and regulatory purposes.
• Ensure all regulatory licenses, certificates, and permits are up to date.
• Be abreast of regulatory developments and industry initiatives and advise management accordingly.
• Develop and ensure that the company meets its compliance obligations under relevant laws and the requirements of regulatory authorities.
• Develop compliance checklists and prepare compliance reports, as and when due.

Legal:

• Negotiate, draft, and review all documents that have legal implications for the company prior to execution and implementation with third parties.
• Advise the management and other departments on legal issues and matters relating to or resulting from the company’s operations.
• Litigation and case management activities.
• Provision of legal, regulatory, and compliance support to related entities.
• Maintain legal and statutory records of the company.
• Liaise with professional advisers and consultants such as auditors, external lawyers, tax advisers, bankers, and shareholders.

Corporate Secretariat:

• Statutory compliance
• Reviewing Annual Report and accounts and reviewing or completing Companies House filings:
• Confirmation Statement filings/directors appointments and resignations/maintaining statutory registers.
• Board Support for the Companies
• Drafting board meeting agendas
• Overseeing more junior members of the team in preparing and publishing the board packs and managing preparations for board meetings
• Minute taking at the Management and Board meetings
• Writing up post-Board meeting follow-up actions
• Advising the boards on corporate governance matters
• Updating Terms of reference, carrying out Board effectiveness reviews
• Liaising with the compliance team and/ or the FCA directly, where needed
• Transaction work
• Keeping procedures and precedents up to date and in line with current regulatory
• Assisting with ad hoc group restructures, strike-offs, and projects if the team requires additional assistance
• Team tasks
• Keeping procedures and precedents up to date and in line with current regulatory requirements
• Train and support junior members of the team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law.
• A minimum of 7 years of working experience with at least 3 years of litigation experience and relevant experience preferably within the Oil and Gas/maritime industry.
• Being conversant with NCDMB, CAC, NPA, NIMASA, NMDPRA, NNPC and other regulators is an added advantage.
• Ability to work without supervision.
• Drafted a BIMCO contract agreement from the start to the finish stage.