Legal Counsel - Johannesburg at BP International

Job Description:

• At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

Accountabilities

• With an excellent level of independence, provide proactive and commercially focussed legal advice and support that assists in the delivery of the business’ strategic plans and when necessary advance matters to Managing Counsel
• Provide an effective compliance environment to lead and reduce legal risk in the business and its operations
• Provide local legal support to the international Customers & Products businesses in Southern Africa
• Provide simplified business-focused legal solutions to potentially complex or fast paced problems
• Collaborating closely with the business colleagues on needs of the business and service delivery to it from the Legal team
• Define ways of working between Legal and business ways of working and engage the business on implementation
• Supporting the Managing Counsel, South Africa and representing the Legal Function on specific matters
• Support the Managing Counsel, South Africa in and if required own the management and oversight of external law firms, ensuring that the use of external firms is recorded, tracked against estimate and performance of the external firms is monitored against a clear brief or instruction