Senior Legal Counsel, Risk & Compliance at Airtel

Why Airtel Africa?

• At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like “ordinary”, then we are not for you.
• We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.
• By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.

Key Accountabilities:

• Managing/attending board meetings,
• Briefing Regional Operations Directors and other Exco members,
• Managing cross-OpCo and shareholder legal matters, including liaising with head office
• Assist, support and guide OPCO legal directors in respect of all aspects of legal department management and activity
• Ensuring optimal quality of legal service provided (standards, timeliness, accuracy…)
• Act on internal audit findings and recommendations as and when required in order to close gaps in compliance and governance
• Identifying areas of development, addressing staffing issues
• Rendering both contractual and strategic advice,
• Partnering with business owners to ensure productive and robust alliances,
• Commercial risk management and entity structuring.  
• Leading Group-level disputes, including managing outside counsel and pre-litigation and litigation management responsibilities; monitoring and managing OpCo litigation portfolio
• Responsible for orderly strategic and project management of OPCO jurisdictions

What will make you successful?

• Degrees in Common and Civil law
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience
• Substantial experience in commercial contract drafting/negotiation, M&A transactions, licenses negotiation (in a regulated environment), substantial litigation responsibility, and experience with IP
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and verbal and written communication skills, including the ability simultaneously navigate through complicated issues and communicate only the important aspects in a clear and concise manner at all levels within the organization and across linguistic/geographic lines
• Experience in developing strong business partnerships with senior executives
• Ability to evaluate issues from legal and business perspectives with a practical, business-oriented, common sense approach to complex problem solving
• Effectively balance risk and opportunity, thinking creatively to enable the business to make smart decisions
• Demonstrated ability to ensure the selection, development, motivation and retention of less senior attorneys and legal staff
• Excellent attention to detail and judgment
• Unimpeachable integrity; and 
• Flexibility, adaptability.