Legal Manager at Agromall Discovery and Extension Services Limited

Purpose of the Job

• To support the General Counsel and Company Secretary in providing proactive and effective Legal and Company Secretarial support to the Company, subsidiaries boards.

Main Duties
Board and Committee Support:

• Managing Group and subsidiary board and committee meeting processes – working with management to set agenda, briefing management teams on lead times for the delivery of board and committee papers; and ensuring the timely circulation of high-quality materials to board members
• Attendance at and minuting board and committee meetings
• Developing a close working relationship with Executives, boards, Chairs and committee members.
• Tracking to completion actions arising from board and committee meetings.
• Maintaining board and committee records, including papers, minutes and other documentation.

Compliance Support:

• Statutory compliance - responsible for ensuring the maintenance of statutory records for entities falling within the remit of the Company’s Secretariat, and for ensuring the timely submission of statutory filings.
• Supporting corporate transactions as and when required, including drafting board resolutions and supporting briefing materials for board members.
• Assisting in the production and approval of the Annual Report and Accounts.
• Assisting in the development of guidelines, policies, procedures.
• Ensuring (internal & external) compliance with laid down guidelines, policies and procedures; investigate issues of non-compliance as may be required.

Legal Support

• Drafting a wide variety of legal agreements.
• Providing advice on corporate legal issues and business matters.
• Providing internal advisory services to the business units and departments within the Company.
• Providing commercial legal support to all departmental projects and job functions.
• Ensuring the development of service level agreements for service support and delivery.
• Analyzing and reviewing legal agreements, legislation and documents for the Board.
• Ensuring (internal & external) compliance with laid down guidelines, policies and procedures; investigate issues of non-compliance as may be required.
• Reviewing and advice management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
• Reviewing and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Any other duties as may be assigned.

Corporate Governance:

• Preparing research and first draft briefing materials for the Deputy Company Secretary on proposed changes to the governance and regulatory landscape.
• Keeping abreast of approaches to common reporting items by the Company’s industry peers as these evolve.
• Other
• Liaising with Government stakeholders around governance requirements.
• Acting as a point of contact with the Secretariat for board members and other stakeholders.
• Administrative tasks related to the activities of the Secretariat.
• Any other duties as may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5 - 7 years of post call and active legal practice.
• Experience in a company secretarial or senior administrative role, preferably within a regulated environment.
• An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and experience of board level interaction.
• Ability to influence at all levels.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize accordingly.
• Attention to detail with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High degree of discretion and professionalism.
• A solid understanding of Corporate Governance best practice, and experience of applying this understanding pragmatically in support of boards, board committees and other stakeholders.

Key Competencies / Behaviors:

• Adopts a methodical approach with excellent attention to detail
• Acts at all times with integrity and discretion, with a commitment to doing the right thing, even when no-one is watching
• Proactively seeks out opportunities to improve processes and ensure the effective functioning of the Secretariat
• Takes responsibility for and ownership of decisions, actions and outcomes.
• An excellent team player
• Seeks out opportunities to improve and share knowledge and remain abreast of changes in Corporate Governance best practice, ensuring that services delivered by the Secretariat are best in class.
• A flexible can-do approach to relevant issues and to act promptly to ensure situations are dealt with appropriately, effectively and with professionalism.