Associate Company Secretary / Legal Officer / HR Executive at KNN Corporate Services Limited

KNN Corporate Services Limited is a dynamic group of professionals with more than three decades of combined experience in supporting businesses, providing corporate governance, HR consulting and company secretarial services. We are young, energetic, and highly proficient in our various fields, and also enjoy serving you our client.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Company Secretary / Legal Officer / HR Executive

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Brief

• We are a corporate services firm that renders company secretarial / legal advisory / human resources & governance consulting services on an outsourced basis; looking to hire a young, smart and self-motivated lawyer / HR Executive who will join the team in providing qualitative and innovative services to our esteemed clients.
• Our ideal candidate must be very confident, trustworthy, reliable, confident, very well-organized with experience in company secretarial, legal and HR services.

Job Description

• Draft and review a wide variety of legal agreements.
• Provide legal advice/ opinion on corporate legal issues and business matters.
• Prepare correspondence and legal documents such as contracts, pleadings, briefs, affidavits, motions, and settlement agreements for contract negotiations and proceedings.
• Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses.
• Provide the full spectrum of company secretarial services to external clients on an outsourced basis.
• Ensure the proper safe keeping and update of the company registers, statutory books, and corporate seal.
• Managing clients’ cases from start to finish.
• Ensure clients’ adherence to extant laws and regulations.
• Monitor the maintenance of the registers and other records required to be maintained and/or filed by the organization under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA 2020).
• Draft guidelines, policies, and procedures documents.
• Assessing the company’s/clients’ corporate governance practices and providing advice on how to improve them.
• Incorporate new businesses and develop the governance structures.
• Assist in identifying, analyzing, and evaluating legal risks and developing risk mitigation strategies to protect the company/client’s, assets, and stakeholders’ interest respectively.
• Conduct land & title searches as well as perfection of title.
• Provision of the full spectrum of human resource consulting to external clients which includes:
• Responsible for recruitment, placement and onboarding.
• Driving the process of developing and deploying effective induction programmes for new hires.
• Responsible for drafting HR policies and implementing/communicating HR policies, that promote a healthy work environment and comply with labor regulations.
• Ensuring accurate and proper record-keeping of employee information in digital or electronic format.
• Working with relevant line managers to set SMART performance objectives for staff and also track staff progress.
• Responsible for discussing employees’ career development paths with line managers.
• Responsible for payroll administration as well as the implementation of employee compensation/benefits package.

Job Requirements
Qualifications:

• A graduate Degree of Law from a reputable University (minimum of second class upper).
• Member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
• Additional certification in HR and payroll administration would be of added advantage.
• Proven 2 - 4 years post NYSC experience
• Good knowledge of HR best practices and Labour Law.

Required Skills:

• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office applications especially Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge of corporate/company & labour law.
• Commitment and enthusiasm in the delivery of the organization's objectives.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
• Advanced critical and legal reasoning skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and team working abilities.
• Excellent research and writing skills. A record of undertaking research and writing of papers, reports, and presentations would be an added advantage.
• Good organization, time management, and scheduling skills.
• People management skills
• Ability to multitask
• A strong sense of professionalism.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Excellent team working skills.
• Excellent negotiation and presentation skills.
• Proactive and positive attitude.

Application Closing Date
20th November, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@knncorporate.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.