Position Description:

Are you a professional, energetic and dedicated individual? Would you like to fill the position of Legal Compliance Specialist within the Centre of Excellence: Group Assurance

The Legal Compliance Specialist will be responsible for:

• Ensuring ongoing compliance with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements
• Working with the external service providers and ensuring that SLA's are adhered to
• Ensuring compliance with King 4 and assisting with assurance
• Drafting and updating risk ratings, compliance risk management plans and annual plans, and giving compliance advice for key laws e.g. NCA, Debt Collectors Act, POPI, PAIA, FICA, BBBEE, Waste Act
• Providing compliance advice for key laws in Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini
• Drafting policies and oversight of certain policies for key laws
• Liaising with TFG internal audit and external auditors regarding compliance
• Providing awareness training on applicable laws, compliance related systems, creating a culture of compliance, risk awareness, identification, assessment, mitigating and monitoring laws
• Maintaining a legislative risk register and reporting on these risks, and actions required
• Keeping management updated on legislative developments, in particular regarding draft laws and proposed new laws
• Monitoring TFG customer complaints systems and complaints to external bodies on TFG
• Review of all TFG internal audit drafts and final reports
• Provide legal compliance advice and opinions to in-house legal advisors and the business
• Submission of reports, financials and keeping company records with the relevant regulators up-to-date
• Assisting with drafting compliance reports to 3 board committees
• Assisting in up-skilling the team's compliance assistants
• Where specified, attending meetings on laws being drafted (e.g. parliament or industry bodies) and provide reports
• Responsible for managing RSA legal subscriptions
• Facilitating compliance and project managing compliance related changes within the business

Requirements

• LLB qualification (essential)
• Admitted attorney (essential)
• Compliance qualification from a recognised institution e.g. UCT/CISA compliance management course
• Minimum 3 years post articles experience
• Compliance experience outside of a law firm
• Self-starter and agile thinker
• Able to work independently and in a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to build and value relationships
• Even temper, humble, curious mind and excited to get involved in taking compliance digital!

Preference will be given, but not limited to, candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act