Senior Legal Counsel
$80,000–$90,000 year
Remote
RemoteFull Time$80,000–$90,000 yearSenior Level
Full TimeSenior Level
Job Summary
Identify, assess, and mitigate legal risks to ensure group compliance with laws and regulations. Lead the review, drafting, and negotiation of commercial contracts, including supplier agreements, customer frameworks, SaaS contracts, and NDAs. Provide timely legal advice for UK and South Africa markets while developing corporate governance structures and policies. Assist with litigation strategy, manage company secretarial duties for UK entities, and coordinate external counsel engagements. Monitor Financial Conduct Authority developments and build internal legal literacy through training.
Required Qualifications
- Significant post-qualification experience
- Strong foundation in commercial law
- Excellent drafting skills
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to build trusted relationships at all levels
- Initiative
- Determination
- Commitment
- Practical, confident, and business-minded lawyer with a commercial background
- Experience working in fast-paced environments
- Ability to manage a broad range of legal matters with autonomy and confidence
- Entrepreneurial drive
- Must be able to work on drafting of a basic contract
- Must be able to advise on a complex financing or cross-border transaction
- Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate legal risks
- Ability to lead and manage the review, drafting, and negotiation of a wide range of commercial contracts
- Ability to provide timely, pragmatic, and trustworthy legal advice within specific markets (primarily United Kingdom and South Africa)
- Ability to develop, implement, and maintain fit-for-purpose corporate governance structures and policies
- Ability to assist with litigation strategy and the management of dispute resolution
- Ability to manage company secretarial duties for UK entities
- Ability to assist with board governance, fiduciary duties, filings, and regulatory requirements for all Group companies
- Ability to coordinate external counsel engagement
- Ability to assist with compliance and internal policy development, including data protection, cybersecurity, and regulatory issues
- Ability to monitor and interpret Financial Conduct Authority regulatory developments, policy statements, consultation papers, and guidance, including the FCA Handbook
- Ability to build internal awareness of legal matters, delivering training and tools to improve legal literacy and reduce risk
- Must be available for weekend shifts
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Previous in-house experience, preferably across a broad range of matters
- Exposure to international work or multi-jurisdictional teams
- Experience in the renewable energy, distribution, or manufacturing sectors
- A growth mindset and enthusiasm for working in a high-change environment
- A long term view
- Master's degree preferred
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