Willers Solutions Limited - Our client, a reputable firm, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Contract Management and Administration Officer
Location: Lagos
Job Description
Contract Management and Administration:
- Develop, negotiate and evaluate contracts on behalf of the Company.
- Advise and enforce the company's rights and ensure the company meets its obligations in each project by communicating expectations to relevant departments.
- Monitor key contract dates to ensure all contract terms are applied timely and correctly.
- Manage legal, project, and contracting risks of the company and ensure that any contractual or legal matter affecting the Project execution is properly addressed.
- Liaise with other departments and third-party representatives regularly to address issues that may arise from each contract renewal, contract award, contract resolution, and contract follow-up action items.
- Provide contract status reports to management for review.
- Carry out evaluations and provide close-out reports for each project and identify gaps and areas of improvement.
- Assist the other team in preparing requests and responses for contractual interpretations and providing responses to requests for contract clarification, deviations, or changes.
Compliance:
- Ensure that business operations are in line with all applicable laws, regulations, best practices, internal policies, and procedures.
- Prepare compliance documentation for statutory, legal, and regulatory purposes.
- Ensure all regulatory licenses, certificates, and permits are up to date.
- Be abreast of regulatory developments and industry initiatives and advise management accordingly.
- Develop and ensure that the company meets its compliance obligations under relevant laws and the requirements of regulatory authorities.
- Develop compliance checklists and prepare compliance reports, as and when due.
Legal:
- Negotiate, draft, and review all documents that have legal implications for the company prior to execution and implementation with third parties.
- Advise the management and other departments on legal issues and matters relating to or resulting from the company’s operations.
- Litigation and case management activities.
- Provision of legal, regulatory, and compliance support to related entities.
- Maintain legal and statutory records of the company.
- Liaise with professional advisers and consultants such as auditors, external lawyers, tax advisers, bankers, and shareholders.
Corporate Secretariat:
- Statutory compliance
- Reviewing Annual Report and accounts and reviewing or completing Companies House filings:
- Confirmation Statement filings/directors appointments and resignations/maintaining statutory registers.
- Board Support for the Companies
- Drafting board meeting agendas
- Overseeing more junior members of the team in preparing and publishing the board packs and managing preparations for board meetings
- Minute taking at the Management and Board meetings
- Writing up post-Board meeting follow-up actions
- Advising the boards on corporate governance matters
- Updating Terms of reference, carrying out Board effectiveness reviews
- Liaising with the compliance team and/ or the FCA directly, where needed
- Transaction work
- Keeping procedures and precedents up to date and in line with current regulatory
- Assisting with ad hoc group restructures, strike-offs, and projects if the team requires additional assistance
- Team tasks
- Keeping procedures and precedents up to date and in line with current regulatory requirements
- Train and support junior members of the team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Law.
- A minimum of 7 years of working experience with at least 3 years of litigation experience and relevant experience preferably within the Oil and Gas/maritime industry.
- Being conversant with NCDMB, CAC, NPA, NIMASA, NMDPRA, NNPC and other regulators is an added advantage.
- Ability to work without supervision.
- Drafted a BIMCO contract agreement from the start to the finish stage.
Application Closing Date
7th December, 2022.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
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