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  • Posted: Nov 20, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects.
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    Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Services - Legal & Regulatory

    Responsibilities

    • Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work
    • All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
    • Regulatory Engagement and Advocacy
    • Lead proactive engagement with financial services and fintech regulators to influence policy and legislative frameworks in favor of business objectives.
    • Represent Safaricom in regulatory forums, consultations, and policy formulation processes, ensuring Safaricom’s positions are clearly articulated and adopted.
    • Build and maintain trusted relationships with regulatory authorities to mitigate adverse actions and secure favorable outcomes.
    • Legal Advisory, Risk Management & Dispute Resolution
    • Provide strategic legal counsel on complex commercial, financial services, and public sector digital transformation matters. 
    • Embed privacy-by-design and compliance-by-design principles into product development and lifecycle management. 
    • Identify, assess, and mitigate regulatory and legal risks across financial services operations, ensuring full compliance with applicable laws and standards.
    • Manage and resolve disputes arising from financial services operations, ensuring minimal operational and financial impact. 
    • Oversee litigation processes and provide timely updates to leadership on contentious and potentially contentious matters.
    • Contractual Management & Negotiation
    • Draft, review, and negotiate high-value partnership agreements and complex commercial contracts for financial services and public sector initiatives. 
    • Ensure all agreements safeguard organizational interests while remaining commercially viable and aligned with evolving product features and regulatory requirements. 
    • Maintain and update customer-facing templates (e.g., consumer T&Cs, agent agreements, B2C/C2B contracts) to reflect regulatory and business changes. 
    • Policy and Legislative Monitoring & Compliance
    • Conduct continuous legislative and regulatory watch to anticipate emerging trends impacting financial services and fintech. 
    • Prepare concise briefs and strategic recommendations for leadership on regulatory developments and their implications. 
    • Actively contribute to internal and external stakeholder sessions on key legislative issues such as AML, electronic financial services, and digital public infrastructure.
    • Serve as custodian of critical compliance records, including registers of licenses, regulatory fines/sanctions, and inspection calendars. 
    • Ensure timely and accurate reporting to internal stakeholders and regulators, including monthly and ad hoc compliance reports. 
    • Drive adherence to internal governance frameworks and external regulatory obligations.
    • Stakeholder & Team Management
    • Partner with cross-functional teams (Finance, Risk, Public Sector Digital Transformation, Vodafone/Vodacom counterparts) to align legal and regulatory strategies with business objectives. 
    • Support joint initiatives and maintain strong collaboration on global compliance matters, trademarks, managed service agreements, and international money transfer agreements.
    • Provide clear strategic direction to legal and regulatory support teams aligned with organizational priorities for Financial Services and Public Sector Digital Transformation. 
    • Set performance expectations and ensure accountability for delivery of high-quality legal and compliance outcomes.
    • Mentor and coach junior legal professionals to build expertise in financial services law, fintech regulation, and policy advocacy.
    • Foster a culture of collaboration within the Legal Services CoE and across business units.
    • Core competencies, knowledge and experience
    • Customer Obsession
    • Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
    • Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
    • Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
    • Simplify processes through digitalisation and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
    • Stay focused on the big priorities, know when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant execution.
    • Purpose
    • Create an inspiring vision for your team to drive strategy and performance.
    • Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
    • Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
    • Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking “what if” questions.
    • Use knowledge of the external environment (customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on opportunities for growth at pace.
    • Innovation
    • Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
    • Fuel innovative ideas from others and test them to enable growth.
    • Explore successes and failures with curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
    • Share your ongoing learning and personal purpose with others.
    • Learn fast from digital adoption, using learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.
    • Collaboration
    • Articulate your team’s role in making our strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and future needs.
    • Actively collaborate to break silos and hold your team accountable to do the same.
    • Develop others to make the most of their talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
    • Create an inclusive environment ensuring the safety and wellbeing of others.
    • Live our Purpose and demonstrate the highest standard of integrity.

    Qualifications

    • At least ten (10) years’ knowledge and progressive experience in commercial law within Financial Services, Telecommunications sectors of which three (3) should have been in a senior leadership role. 
    • Proven track record in regulatory engagement and advocacy with financial services regulators, drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements & managing litigation and dispute resolution for financial services matters. 
    • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from a reputable Commonwealth University.
    • Completion of the Kenya School of Law Diploma and admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
    • Member in good standing of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and compliant with all professional requirements.
    • Relevant professional certification (e.g., Arbitration/Mediation & Negotiation Skills; Fintech and Financial Services Regulation; Anti-Money Laundering (AML); Intellectual Property (IP); Legislative Processes/Drafting)
    • Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M) from a recognized institution is an added advantage. 
    • Possess high professional and ethical standards. 
    • Be a strategic thinker with an analytical mind.

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    Senior Legal Counsel, Technology and Corporate Functions

    Responsibilities

    • Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work
    • All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
    • Legal Advisory, Risk Management & Dispute Resolution
    • Provide strategic legal counsel on technology procurement, cybersecurity, data privacy, and corporate governance matters.
    • Embed compliance-by-design principles into technology projects and corporate initiatives.
    • Identify and mitigate legal risks across technology operations and governance frameworks.
    • Manage disputes related to technology & corporate functions’ contracts ensuring minimal impact.
    • Contractual Management & Negotiation
    • Draft, review, and negotiate high-value technology procurement agreements, cloud service contracts, and corporate functions-related agreements.
    • Ensure agreements safeguard organizational interests while enabling innovation and compliance.
    • Maintain and update templates for technology and corporate agreements to reflect evolving regulatory and business needs.
    • Policy and Legislative Monitoring & Compliance
    • Monitor ICT and corporate functions’ legislation to anticipate emerging trends.
    • Prepare briefs and recommendations for leadership on regulatory developments.
    • Maintain compliance registers for technology licenses, audits, and governance certifications.
    • Ensure timely reporting to internal stakeholders and regulators.
    • Stakeholder & Team Management
    • Partner with Technology, Corporate Functions, Risk, and global counterparts to align legal strategies with business priorities.
    • Foster collaboration within Legal Services CoE and across business units.
    • Provide clear strategic direction to legal and regulatory support teams aligned with organizational priorities for Technology and Corporate Functions.
    • Set performance expectations and ensure accountability for delivery of high-quality legal and compliance outcomes.
    • Mentor and coach junior legal professionals to build expertise in technology, corporate governance and policy advocacy.
    • Foster a culture of collaboration within the Legal Services CoE and across business units

    Core competencies, knowledge and experience

    • Customer Obsession
    • Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
    • Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
    • Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
    • Simplify processes through digitalisation and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
    • Stay focused on the big priorities, know when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant execution.
    • Purpose
    • Create an inspiring vision for your team to drive strategy and performance.
    • Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
    • Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
    • Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking “what if” questions.
    • Use knowledge of the external environment (customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on opportunities for growth at pace.
    • Innovation
    • Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
    • Fuel innovative ideas from others and test them to enable growth.
    • Explore successes and failures with curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
    • Share your ongoing learning and personal purpose with others.
    • Learn fast from digital adoption, using learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.
    • Collaboration
    • Articulate your team’s role in making our strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and future needs.
    • Actively collaborate to break silos and hold your team accountable to do the same.
    • Develop others to make the most of their talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
    • Create an inclusive environment ensuring the safety and wellbeing of others.
    • Live our Purpose and demonstrate the highest standard of integrity.

    Qualifications

    • At least ten (10) years’ knowledge and progressive experience in commercial and technology legislation within Telecommunications, Technology, or corporate sectors of which three (3) should have been in a senior leadership role.
    • Proven track record in negotiating complex technology and corporate functions’ agreements and managing related disputes.
    • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from a reputable Commonwealth University.
    • Completion of the Kenya School of Law Diploma and admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
    • Member in good standing of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and compliant with all professional requirements.
    • Relevant professional certification (e.g., Arbitration/Mediation & Negotiation Skills; ICT Law, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, Corporate Governance, or Intellectual Property)
    • Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M) from a recognized institution is an added advantage.
    • Possess high professional and ethical standards.
    • Be a strategic thinker with an analytical mind.

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