Company Secretary/Legal Officer in a Professional Services Firm

Our firm is a professional services firm, operating as a member based organisation and a non-profit. It seeks to recruit a COMPANY SECRETARY/LEGAL OFFICER of a Manager Grade, to administer the firm’s Legal and Secretarial duties. The position reports to the CEO on the firms legal matters and to the Board and its respective committees, on board secretarial duties

Job Title: Company Secretary/Legal Officer

Location: Lagos

Job Responsibilities

• Legal Affairs Functions
• Provide legal advice/administration on company related matters
• Interpret the implication of all regulatory and internal policy issues for the appropriate departments to ensure compliance
• Serve as the company’s named representative on legal documents, in addition to the CEO
• Advise directors and board members about their legal responsibilities to the firm
• Oversee the conduct of legal research and provides legal update on modern trends on arbitration, conciliation and mediation
• Assist with review of new contracts as well as service level agreements or changes to existing contracts with several providers
• Serve as a legal resource person on professional services projects from time to time. 

Board Secretary Functions

• Circulate calling notices, agenda and minutes of the annual general meeting or any special or extraordinary general meetings
• Act as Company Secretary and carry out all duties needed for that rote according to company law and corporate governance assignments
• Send company information to institutional investors
• Plan, administer and review corporate governance activities and effective practice concerning company board meetings and shareholdings, keeping track of all business matters and transactions are managed and implemented as directed by the Board
• Review legislative, regulatory and governance developments that may impact on the firm
• Contribute to the organizations annual director’s report
• Prepare and circulate agenda as wet as supporting papers in consultation with the Managing Director in good time and of high quality
• Prepare minutes of meetings and circulates to the Board and Board Committee members
• Ensure that meeting minutes are signed by the
• Board and Board Committee Chairmen once they have been approved
• Skills and knowledge

The candidate should have:

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Good presentation and negotiation skits
• Good organisational and time management skills
• A high degree of attention to detail
• High emotional intelligent and stakeholders management skills
• High appreciation of and knowledge of Corporate Governance
• A good understanding of business law and finance
• Sound judgement
• Problem solving ability
• The ability to priorities and manage a busy workload
• A demonstrated positive attitude to life earning

Qualification/Experience

• An LLB Degree and BL in Law
• Masters in Law, Finance or Management is desirable
• Applicable professional qualification including ICSAN
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, experience in legal practice and administration with a reputable organization, preferably in the service industry or other industries of the financial sector
• Optimal Age Bracket: 30-40years old
• Experience in the implementation of Corporate Governance Principles at the Board and organisational levels. 
• Personality
• A sad-motivated individual, with demonstrable capacity for discretion, effective interpersonal relationships, project management, stakeholders engagement and high performance team building skills.
• Maturity to work alone and on a team, as may be needed, is a key personality requirement.

Application Closing Date
27th November, 2013

Method of Application
Interested candidates should send in an application letter and an updated CV to:

The Manager, 
P.O. Box 52637, Falomo, 
Lagos