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
• Superb career opportunity with Mutual Finance (Pty) Ltd (“OMF”) for experienced legal advisor to provide specialist legal support and assisting with contractual documents for OMF’s property management department (“Property Shop”), and its new property management and brokerage subsidiary, Anchorage Property Management (Pty) Ltd (“Anchorage”). The role also partakes in actions related to legal risk management and compliance control.
• Provides advanced or specialist legal support. Provides assistance with contractual documents, especially retail commercial agreements of lease, procurement / vendor service level agreements and other property related agreements. Assist in litigation if required. Provides legal opinions on legislation and attends to research in the relevant field. Contributes to the appropriate management of legal risk within the area of responsibility. Facilitates mitigating potential risk situations.

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 &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.

Qualifications –

Successfully candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• LLB degree
• Admitted attorney / advocate with commercial legal experience.
• Four year minimum post admission legal experience
• Experience as legal advisor in a property management / occupier service / national retailer company or Commercial legal experience as a practicing attorney

Education

• Bachelor of Commerce in Law (BCom), Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

Closing Date

29 April 2023