Swift Minds: is hiring on behalf of our client in the banking sector.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Manage and steer the team supporting on the legal, compliance, risk and regulatory functions within the department.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key external stakeholders to achieve business goals.
• Undertake comprehensive, timely and accurate review of contracts, and where required develop/draft legal instruments, including but not limited to contracts, leases, licenses, notices etc.
• Handle the organization’s litigation portfolio including but not limited to pre-trial briefing, assisting in the review and response to pleadings, collating supporting documentation, identifying potential witnesses, attending Court sessions, maintaining litigation files and ensuring proper maintenance of such files.
• Provide sound legal advice in all operational matters including emerging laws and regulations, commercial transactions and HR issues among other areas.
• Management of external counsel i.e. development of SLA, undertaking firm audits, , issuance of instructions in consultation with the Head of Legal, performance appraisal etc.
• Facilitate debt recovery by issuing demands and notices to debtors and guarantors as well as responding to demands issued to the organization.

• Conduct quarterly reviews of the organization’s litigation matters in order to reduce litigation portfolio by closing cases where recovery chances are slim.
• Support as a key account manager for Tier 1 customers and address and respond to customer complaints, customer demands and offer legal advisory as required.
• Management of legal costs and ensuring departmental cost reduction by at least 10% of budgeted amount.
• Supporting other departments as business partner to ensure compliance and risk prevention.
• Facilitate legal awareness on litigation and commercial transactions to mitigate risk.
• Development of compliance checklist and work status reports.

Qualifications and Experience
• LLB Degree or equivalent foreign qualification.
• Admitted lawyer with 8 + years relevant experience in applying general commercial and corporate law.
• 3+ years of property law and/or telecommunications law experience.