Internal Lawyer

APlus Career is a fast-paced and expanding Recruitment Firm whose goal is to match qualified people with great job chances. We’re proud to have a small but active team that encourages everyone to work together and help each other. We are experts in Management and Senior Management roles and offer our clients the best recruitment services possible.

Our client is an international company in Building Facility Services business is looking for a dynamic and passionate Lawyer to strengthen their  team.

Key Responsibilities

• Being a corporate internal lawyer, you will be providing an in-depth and business-focused legal advice to the business and takes lead in implementing initiatives and processes paramount for the legal department. Serves as a function/business legal compliance risk & will be responsible for assisting with internal strategies, policies, procedures, processes, and programs to prevent violations of law, rule, or regulation and design and deliver a risk management framework that maintains risk levels within the firm’s risk appetite and protect the franchise. Collaborates with all other departments in identifying and managing potential legal risk.
• Serves as in house legal counsel for the company on all legal matters and contracts and manages legal risk for the organization by taking responsibility for providing legal advice to the leadership on all legal matters affecting their departmental transactions.
• Renders effective legal assistance in the preparation of legal opinions, studies, reports and correspondence, as required from time to time by the organization.
• Assists the departments in preparing of reply to legal notices received.
• Assigns court cases to different panel lawyers keeping in view the nature and importance of the cases.
• Supervises and monitors the contesting of the cases in various courts of law and frequently interacts with Panel Lawyers, Courts and other Law Officers of Govt. for their assistance.
• Supervises legal research and analysis, identifying important issues and apprising the various departments of emerging legal trends from court decision and tendering advice to avoid unnecessary litigation, etc.
• Develops and manages a corporate risk management strategy in line with corporate goals and objectives.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm’s reputation and safeguarding its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Serve as primary organizational contact during contract negotiations and negotiates contracts with suppliers, partners and clients to ensure that all the contract terms are viable and any legal risk to the company is mitigated
• Provide inputs to the sales team on terms and conditions for acceptance of business and identify risks.
• Scrutinizes all the contracts / orders received from sales for viability and legal risk and analyses them as per the company standards and policies.
• Supervises and oversees the review, negotiation and drafting of major contracts, tender documents and other legal documents, as required by the various departments.
• Ensure that contracts and proposals are properly entered into organizational databases and securely maintained.
• Drives training of Organizational policies and compliance training to employees .
• Responsible for ISO functions (adherence & implementation)
• Be an ethics ambassador in the country and proactively influence the company culture within the organization and act as a point of contact/reference for the local organization in relation to questions or concerns related to BE.
• Advise country leadership and management on local business ethics compliance matters.
• Drive actions/efforts in the country to implement the Securitas BE compliance program and ensure that other relevant functions, such as HR, Sales, Finance, Commercial, Procurement and Communications, embed the required activities and controls into their ways of working.
• Work closely with the Divisional BE Compliance Officer and ensure that local efforts align with Securitas Group requirements.
• Report to the Divisional BE Compliance Officer on a quarterly basis on the progress of such actions/efforts.
• Report compliance issues, irregularities, and violations of Securitas Values & Ethics Code or corporate policies to the BE Divisional Compliance Officer. and on a case-by-case basis conduct or oversee internal investigations

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified lawyer from an accredited law school with corporate legal experience within a fast-paced, fast-evolving and dynamic environment with 3-5 years of experience.
• Candidate must have exceptionally good communication skills which will be especially necessary in client and leadership interactions.
• Must have an ability to identify and remedy complex legal issues without inviting the services of external legal advice.
• Knowledge of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies
• Candidate must have exceptionally good skills in the legal negotiation space.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and with people at all levels of the organization