Senior Legal Counsel at Moove

About the job

Moove is looking for an experienced, highly skilled and competent lawyer to be its Senior Legal Counsel to:

• Ensure that we have an in-country legal resource with the primary responsibility of identifying, mitigating and managing legal risk in the Kenya and Uganda business & operations;
• Provide legal advisory services and transactional support to the business and operations in Kenya and Uganda; and
• Grow and deepen the capacity of the in-house Legal function.

What You’ll be Doing

• Draft, review and/or negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements and contracts.
• Provide legal and regulatory advice to other departments and business units within the organisation.
• Be the first port of call for all regulatory and licensing issues relating to the business and operations in Kenya and Uganda.
• Advise on the impact of specific Kenya and Uganda laws and regulations on Moove’s business and operations in Kenya and Uganda.
• Monitor trends and developments in the legal and regulatory framework in Kenya and Uganda and work closely with Compliance and other business teams and senior stakeholders to ensure compliance.
• Support local and global Product, Strategy, Operations and Management teams on launch of new products or business initiatives.
• Draft and maintain internal policies to ensure compliance with Kenya and Uganda laws and regulations.
• Liaise with and manage relationships with external counsel.
• Provide training to other departments on legal and regulatory compliance.
• Supervise and have line management responsibility for mid to junior level legal counsel as may be hired in Kenya and Uganda.
• Keep Line Manager informed of key legal and regulatory risk issues affecting the business and operations in Kenya and Uganda.
• Perform such other responsibilities as may be assigned by Line Manager.

What You will need for this position

• LLB (Bachelor of Laws) degree.
• Qualified to practice law in Kenya and/or Uganda
• Minimum of 8 years post qualification experience
• Strong corporate & commercial law experience in in-house legal team in the finance, fintech, consumer products or technology sectors.
• Experience in a senior role leading and managing others.
• Experience working in a rapid growth, scale-up business is desirable but not essential
• Good judgement.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and to take initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure, effectively manage competing priorities and manage tasks proactively.
• Ability to innovate and think creatively.
• Strong interpersonal and team working skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders effectively.
• High professionalism, self-driven and results-oriented.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. (English).
• Comfortable working in an unstructured ever changing environment
• Adaptable and flexible