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Legal.

• Assist in providing of legal advice, legal briefs and opinion to senior management

• Liaising with external lawyers to facilitate collection of evidence and preparation of information related to court matters.

• Work with the Legal Manager to ensure that the company`s commercial, contractual and other legal interests are adequately protected.

• Prepare reports and analysis of internal cases, results and timings including monthly updates for litigation matters.

• Support in the administration of licenses and permits including maintenance of company registers.

Compliance

• Ensure that the company is in compliance with regulations by providing necessary information to national, regional, and local officials.

• Assist in reviewing, implementation and enforcement of compliance tools, company procedures and policies.

• Advise on legislative requirements for compliance with international and governing law

• Maintain registers; compliance, risk, contracts and licenses/ permits etc for compliance purposes.

• Assist in carrying out internal investigations and case management as and when called upon

• Support in legal trainings to all staff

Tax Matters

• Verify that all tax rules, regulations, and practices are followed.

• Prepare and review legal documents related to various tax matters

• Support internal and external teams to represent the company in matters before URA, Courts of Law and Tax Appeals Tribunal.

• Stay updated with new tax regulations, rulings, and legislations and train internal staff.

Data Protection

• Act as point of contact for the Data Protection related matters.

• Training and enforcement of the Data protection laws and company policies.

• Manage input, retrieve, update and destruction of documents in archives

Cost Control

• Assist in preparation and monitoring of department budget

• Manage payment approval process and follow up on departmental payments

Secretarial

• Undertake responsibilities of the secretary to internal meetings as required.

• Assist in the preparation of board meetings.

• Undertake administrative duties and other duties as may be assigned.

Working conditions

• Working environment requires that the holder to wear PPEs for safety reasons.

• Office bound / on-site / travel/ May be required to travel

• The company may choose to relocate to holder to branches or other sister offices as and when needed

• Willing to work extended hours to accomplish job roles