OMF Legal Advisor Specialist at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

This role is responsible for providing advanced or specialist legal support. It also partakes in actions related to commercial lease agreements, legal risk management, and compliance control. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts over periods of up to 3 months

Key Responsibilities 

• Contract management:
• The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, negotiating terms of complex commercial lease agreements.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating property procurement / vendor agreements, brokerage and other agreements within the retail & office property sector.
• Offer legal advice on the structuring of above agreements to the Property Shop’s team members responsible for contracting.
• Ensure proper recording of contractual transactions’ terms and conditions in accordance to property and procurement committees’ approvals, as well as communication to all impacted stakeholders (e.g. rental payments, beneficial occupation dates, lease periods etc).

Legal advisory

• The successful candidate will be responsible to fulfil a legal advisory role to the Property Shop and Anchorage on all legal matters.
• Provide legal opinions / comments on legislation and common law as far as it related to the business activities of the Property Shop and Anchorage.
• Accountable for advising the legal aspects of the Properties Shop and Anchorage in order to support their operations and strategy, including engagement with landlords, property management companies, clients, vendors/suppliers etc in matters of dispute.
• Attend to legal issues in respect of properties, maintenance and general disputes. Risk management & compliance:
• Contributes to the appropriate management of legal risk and compliance within the area of responsibility.
• Facilitates mitigating potential risk situations.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation impacting the Property Shop and Anchorage, including but not limited to the Estate Agency Affairs Act & Regulations, Property Practitioners Act & Regulations, POPIA, Companies Act etc.
• Ensure compliance with OML & OMF policies
• Performing internal lease audits: reconciliation of contents of Agreements of Lease with Minutes. Offer to Lease, Vetting requirements, Letters of Acceptance, Legal and Project Memos in terms of the Property Shop Protocol.
• Compiling and Finalizing the Agenda and Minutes for the Property Committee Meetings.

Personal Effectiveness

• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Accepts and lives the company values.

Skills

Education

• Bachelor Of Laws (LLB) (Required), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

Closing Date

• 30 August 2022