Legal Specialist at PalmPay

Job Purpose

• As a Legal Specialist, your primary responsibility will be to oversee and facilitate the legal and compliance aspects of our operations, with a focus on Fintech-related matters. You will play a crucial role in drafting, reviewing, and managing various contracts, including NDA and Service Agreements, to ensure legal accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Working Scope

• Draft and review various contracts, including but not limited to NDA, Service Agreement, etc.
• Manage contracts in contract system.
• Provide legal and compliance advice on Fintech-related matters, coordinate with legal team, compliance team and business team on various comments arising from the reviews.
• Maintain and optimize legal and compliance review process and provide trainings to associates as necessary.
• Follow up with changes in law and issue recommendations to ensure compliance.
• Provide direct support to business team as needed for daily work.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good language skill of English
• Understand of legal language and principles, research methods.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work under high pace working environment independently and take ownership
• Excellent interpersonal and client relationship skills.
• Attention to detail and excellent proofreading skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High level of ethics and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to exercise discretion and good judgment based on legal knowledge and business understanding
• Demonstrate learning agility and quick adaption to changing environment

Qualifications

• At least 1-2 years working experience as paralegal/legal assistant/legal specialist.
• Tanzania bar license is required.
• Graduates from a reputable law school is preferred.