Legal Governance Associate
Experian
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To advise and assist staff and clients with regards to data access credit regulatory queries and give legal advice on related matters ie Reg 19(13), Prescribed Purposes
- To draft, review and negotiate various types of agreements.
- Act as liaison between the legal team and internal clients to advise on regulatory queries and be first point of contact.
- Draft legal letters including termination and breach of contract letters.
- Draft and maintain standard template letters for use by the business.
- Investigating unauthorised data access allegations
- Manage the legal email in-box.
- Assist the Legal Manager in managing litigation matters.
- Ensure regulatory compliance for the SA market as well as our credit bureaus across Africa.
- Together with Compliance, ensure timely submission of regulatory compliance reports and attend to any queries that may arise, with particular focus to the NCA; BEE; the Company’s Act; POPIA; PAIA.
- Act as first line of response to regulators in all markets we operate in
- Support compliance audits in all the markets we operate in
- Provide regulatory training to the business.
- Maintain and update regulatory universe and new regulatory impact across the business.
- Perform company secretarial functions for subsidiaries including maintaining company books, issuing share certificates etc.
- Support Group company secretary in arranging board and shareholder meetings.
- Act as company secretary for subsidiaries and maintain minutes.
- Maintain the Share Register, Shareholder Detail Register, Resolution Register
- Establish and maintain a repository for all corporate documents relating to the company as well as our subsidiaries.
- Maintain a contracts repository.
- As a dep company secretary, act as a trusted advisor for the board and management in terms of the Company’s Act
- Establish and maintain a well-functioning company secretary office.
- Together with General Counsel Africa, set the BEE strategy and Implementation Plan to execute on the board approved strategy
- Prepare BEE verification audit prep files and verification readiness
- Act as first point of contact with BEE verification analysts
- Work with procurement; marketing; HR; finance; legal; sales and other affected departments in ensuring our BEE Targets are met and maintained
- Create a process to maintain.
- Maintain vendor packs to ensure timely implementation of contracts
- Update, maintain and ensure timeous submission to the risk department in relation to the departmental risk register for Legal, Risk, Compliance and DPO
- Maintain the departmental policies and ensure periodic updates take place as and when the time comes up for renewal or update.
- Legal bachelor’s degree
- Admitted Attorney
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a legal office / position or role and preferably in the financial services industry. Experience with sales departments will be an advantage.
- Experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiation of contracts.
- Experience in company secretarial services.
- Experience in regulatory risk (compliance) and/or operational risk management and monitoring and/or business process auditing activities; and
- At least 2 years’ experience in the credit bureau industry
- Experience in assessing BEE requirements and maintaining BEE Scorecard for the company.
- Experience in the privacy data office.