Company Secretary/Junior Lawyer - Bilingual French and English Speaker - International

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Our client is looking for a Paralegal/Company Secretarial to join their team
The role will be providing legal support to the company Business Units in SSA and to a growing dedicated GBS legal function across Africa (circa 11 lawyers). Assist legal counsels and corporate secretarial dept to organize and maintain corporate records. Drafting board resolutions, shareholder resolutions, powers of attorney, and updating company constitutional documents, managing capital increases, assisting in the updating of templates and form documents across SSA, assisting with legal research, aiding in the roll out of programs to ensure compliance with data protection laws across SSA.
Main Accountabilities:
Provide legal support for all lawyers/BUs and the corporate secretary for SSA. Support drafting of contracts/RFQs review, legal research, preparation of legal advice and other legal enquires from Business Partners.
Updating corporate constitutional documents to ensure compliance and harmonization with various local laws, including OHADA regulations.
Assist legal counsels to ensure all BUs comply with laws and regulations applicable to business units in country, including in particular data protection laws;
Ensuring capital increases are done when needed to prevent insolvency, etc. Drafting of shareholder and board approvals of annual accounts, appointment of new directors, managers, and the filing and approval of the audited annual accounts.
Provide general administrative support to legal team and other administrative duties as assigned by legal team.
Assist legal team in assuring organization's legal interests are best represented and protected in customer, supplier and third party contracts
Works with internal stakeholders to obtain information requested by legal team.
Finance & Projects:
Manage iShare, and keeping contract forms and templates updated
Prepares material for delivery of legal training courses on legal topics relevant to the business, including competition law, contracts training courses, etc.;
Assist with admin tasks to aid legal team, including invoice tracking, law firm onboarding, cost management, expenses
People Management
No direct report and authority over country line and functional personnel.

Key Skills
Member of team with ability to adapt to changing priorities; and works co-operatively with others to achieve targets of the team.
A team player
Ability to apply legal knowledge and expertise in business environment
Hardworking, very detail-oriented and well-organized, a team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Developing legal analytical skills
Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines