Legal Associate at Wakanow

Wakanow is Africa's leading, full-service online travel company. At Wakanow, we understand that everyone likes easy and affordable travel services, so we provide our customers with a one-stop booking portal for Flights, Hotels, Visa Assistance, Holiday Packages, Airport Transfers, an international Travel SIM, a Prepaid Travel Card, a Loyalty program, and much more.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Associate

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Reports To: Head, Legal and Compliance

Job Objective/ Purpose of Job

• The Legal Associate shall be responsible for monitoring and/or advising on all legal matters, commercial contracts, and agreements.
• The Legal Associate shall also ensure the company complies with the statutory and corporate governance practices and guidelines as observed in the insurance industry.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide advice on corporate legal issues and business matters.
• Provide commercial legal support to all departmental projects and job functions.
• Ensure the development of service level agreements for service support and delivery.
• Monitor the maintenance of the registers and other records required to be maintained by the Company under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).
• Assist in the development of guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Ensure (internal & external) compliance with laid down guidelines, regulations, policies and procedures; investigate issues of non-compliance as may be required.
• Review and advice management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
• Review and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.

Requirements
Key Skills & Competencies Requirements:

• A graduate Degree in Law (minimum of Second Class Lower).
• Member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
• A minimum 5 - 7 years post NYSC experience.
• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office applications especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Functional/ Technical:

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of corporate law; commitment and enthusiasm in the delivery of the organizations objectives.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
• Good understanding of general and specific Company and commercial law.

Behavioural:

• Good research skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.