Legal and Compliance Officer at HR-EX Consulting

Job Responsibilities
Contract Management and Administration:

• Develop, negotiate and evaluate contracts on behalf of the Company.
• Advise and enforce the company 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 risk 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 representative regularly to address issues that may arise from each contract renewal, contract award, contract resolutions 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 licences, certificates, 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 has 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.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law
• At least 5 years post qualification experience inclusive of 2 years admiralty litigation experience.
• Prior knowledge of BIMCO contracts and other maritime contracts
• Special knowledge of regulatory compliance with NUPRC, NIMASA, NCDMB, NPA etc.
• Ability to work without supervision.