Legal Manager

About the role

Old Mutual is hiring a Legal Manager in Windhoek. The role covers specialist legal advice, contract review, legal sign-off on business processes and products, and oversight of legal risk management within the group.

Key responsibilities

• Accumulate facts, identify issues, research legal principles and apply them to provide legal advice, opinions and comments on legislation
• Review and sign off contracts (policy contracts, application forms and quotes)
• Write financial planning circulars, work on projects, review client communications and conduct training sessions
• Provide legal sign-off on business processes and products, and resolve customer complaints
• Oversee legal risk management through other managers and their teams, and network with industry bodies
• Advise business units on the impact of new legislation and help prepare them to implement it
• Assist with corporate secretarial tasks as required by the Group Legal and Corporate Secretarial Manager
• Guide and direct staff, assign work, define performance parameters and coaching plans, and select staff to sustain customer service delivery

Required profile

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree
• Admitted as a legal practitioner
• Namibian citizenship
• Knowledge of financial services legislation, working knowledge of tax and company law