Job Title: Legal Officer
Hiring Organization: Deloitte
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Financial
Services
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Competitive
Date Posted: 01/17/2024
About Deloitte
Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte has approximately 456,800 professionals all committed to becoming the standard of excellence of professional services firms.
Deloitte’s professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate
responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their
communities, and enjoy an environment of continuous learning, challenging
experiences, and enriching career opportunities. All our professionals are
united by our shared values, a set of core principles that guide our collective
behavior. They set the expectations we have for one another and define how we,
as stewards of Deloitte, should behave. They provide common ground to unite us
across cultures and geographies. And, importantly, they help us to earn the
trust and respect of our key stakeholders. Our shared values are: Lead the way,
serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and
collaborate for measurable impact.
Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to
multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises
and the public sector, across three (3) countries in the region: Kenya, Uganda
and Tanzania.
A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with
and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an
opportunity to start and grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding
environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance
your career in Kenya and within the East Africa market.
About the Department
The Quality, Independence, Risk & Reputation and Office of the
General Counsel function deals with any issues that potentially expose Deloitte
to risk. The risk issues impacting the firm are varied and may include
reputational, operational, litigation and regulatory risk.
Risk Management is about identifying and managing risks to the
firm. This includes checks necessary to ensure that the individual
professionals act and make decisions that achieve the objectives of the firm,
comply with professional and legal requirements and that are ethical.
The Legal Counsel team provides internal legal assistance to the
Firm in contracting, legal advisory, company secretarial, disputes management,
litigation and compliance.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic person to
join our Internal Client Services Department – Quality, Independence, Risk
& Reputation & Office of the General Counsel as a Legal Officer.
What impact will you make?
At Deloitte we have a clear purpose, to make an impact that
matters to our clients, our colleagues and our communities while you thrive in
a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. From
professional development to leadership opportunities and career advancement, we
empower our people to be their very best – because that’s how you make an
impact.
Main Purpose of Job
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing legal
support and advisory in execution of goals and strategy of the legal team.
What you will do
- Monitor and
review changes in laws, regulations and related policies in Deloitte East
Africa;
- Manage the
regulatory framework and ensure legislative compliance in Deloitte East
Africa including legal risks identification and mitigation;
- Management of
litigation and regulatory investigations;
- Draft and review
legal agreements including attending contract negotiation meetings, ensure
all contracts accurately reflect negotiated terms and are maintained in
the contracting system from start to end;
- Undertake
quality legal research, draft legal opinions and respond to legal
enquiries from different member firms within the Deloitte network;
- Assist in all
Company Secretarial related services to Deloitte Member Firms in East
Africa (DEA Member Firms) which includes maintaining the DEA Member firms
legal structure, filings notifications at the Registrar of Companies,
maintaining statutory books of the DEA Member Firms, drafting resolutions
as may be required from time to time and updating the governance documents
of the DEA Member Firms;
- Attend to
correspondence and management of relationships with external legal
counsels and any applicable regulatory bodies;
- Implement global
and regional policies of confidentiality and financial crimes;
- Champion
anti-corruption and anti-money laundering initiatives; and
- Any other tasks
as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s
degree in Law from a reputable university.
- Advocate of the
High Court of Kenya.
- At least six
years’ post admission experience in the provision of legal services in a
reputable law firm or the legal department of an international or leading
organization.
- Strong technical
legal and commercial skills including experience in contracting,
commercial law and financial crimes law.
- Strong
organizational skills and ability to work with others and manage multiple
time sensitive matters in a demanding organization.
- Ability to take
initiative and analyze issues and generate potential solutions.
- Experience in
the provision of company secretarial services.
- Goal oriented –
seek to understand the mission of Deloitte and contribute towards its
attainment.
Behavioural competencies
- Excellent
communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Good
interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Mentorship and
coaching ability with desire to develop self and others.
- Strong client
delivery focus.
- Adaptable,
managing change and ambiguity with ease.
- Focus on quality
and risk.
- Problem solving
ability.
- Good business
acumen.
- High
professional and ethical standards for handling confidential information.
Technical Competencies
- Demonstrably
planning and organizational skills and ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Expert in field
with sound industry and business knowledge.
- Demonstrated
leadership skills.
- Experienced in
communication and implementation of strategy.
- Proven ability
to manage and execute projects.
- Experienced in
development and delivery of professional presentations.
- Good
presentation and report writing skills.
- Proficiency in
Microsoft applications including Microsoft Office Outlook, Word,
PowerPoint, and Excel.
Your role as a leader
At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all
levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging
themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our
people, and for society and make an impact that matters.
Leadership / Behavioural
Capabilities
- Living our Purpose
– Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores
opportunities for impact.
- Influence –
Actively focuses on developing effective communication and
relationship-building skills.
- Performance
drive – Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability
for keeping performance on track.
- Strategic
direction – Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities
of the team and the business.
- Talent
development – Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and
development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent.
Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping
people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do
their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we
believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build
world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global,
fast-changing business world.
Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders
virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain
experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and
embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and thinking
styles.
