For a bank in Madagascar, we are recruiting a lawyer
Place of assignment: Antananarivo—Madagascar
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Head of Legal Affairs, his/her main tasks will be to perform the legal function on behalf of the bank, to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory provisions within the bank and to handle litigation files for both plaintiffs and defendants. His duties are as follows:
1/ Legal :
· Assisting, advising and consulting all the bank’s entities, in conjunction with legal counsel;
· Provide legal training;
· Update contracts, agreements and deeds relating to the bank’s activities and relations with third parties, in collaboration with the department manager;
· Study and validate the bank’s new products and the various procedures submitted to the entity, in collaboration with the department manager;
· Be responsible for the legal assistance support process within the framework of the various committees within the bank, as organizer and/or contributor;
· Establish reporting
2/ Corporate life :
· Carry out all corporate governance procedures (management of directors’ mandates, training of directors);
· Organize and hold board meetings and general assemblies, and carry out all related formalities;
· Monitor payment of membership dues to organizations of which the bank is a member;
· Be the point of entry for all requests from regulators and/or organizations, and ensure timely delivery to the entities concerned;
· Update the various platforms used by the bank for identification purposes: “KYC Registry” and “LEI”….
3/ Insurance: contributor / partner :
· Manage and monitor RCPRO, bank all-risks and corporate officer liability insurance policies;
· Manage and monitor claims declarations to insurers;
· Ensure related gorvernance.
PROFIL
· Minimum master’s degree in law;
· At least 2 years’ professional experience as a legal advisor or assistant in a company;
· Excellent writing skills;
· Excellent command of office automation tools, in particular Pack Office;
· Perfect command of written and spoken French;
· Good level of English;
· Commitment to results;
· Strong sense of responsibility and commitment to work;
· Good adaptability and organizational skills;
· Dynamic, rigorous and methodical;
· Sense of teamwork and team spirit;
· Good listening, analysis and synthesis skills.
Please send your application, including a detailed CV, a covering letter, your salary expectations and at least 3 professional references with a scan of the highest diploma, by December 04, 2024 to juriste@fthmconsulting.com.
Please note that providing references is compulsory and constitutes authorization to contact them.