Legal Advisor

About * Provision of legal advisory for the Central Services Division of an international financial services firm. * Focus: procurement of digital and tech services.

Description

• Manage matters from various business units such as: Digital and Technology, SA Group Marketing, and various central support services including but not limited to Procurement, Finance, ESG, and Facilities.
• Understand business requirements, internal agreed processes, and established risk thresholds in order to negotiate and oversee the contracting process end-to-end.
• Build and maintain strong, mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external parties and vendors.

General Capabilities

• Good commercial awareness: ability to quickly understand benefit and/or risk/s in a deal/transaction or proposal and be able to apply your experience and legal knowledge and convey same to leadership.
• Must have demonstrable experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating binding documents in general.

Specific Requirements

• Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
• Experience in IT especially licencing agreements, cloud and SaaS related projects, SOWs, SLAs, AI, and data protection/privacy.
• Demonstrable experience in working with market data contracts and in particular with exchanges globally and vendors in the market data space.
• Experience in managing work which impacts any Regulator requirements.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the newest technologies or trends trending globally.
• Experience working with vendors and other external third parties in any demonstrable capacity.

Key skills

• Problem solving ability.
• Ability to confidently convey advice or strategy to management and senior leadership in person and in writing.
• Ability to work with high volumes and to deadlines.
• Willingness to work effectively with others.