Description
This role has the following primary purposes:
- Assisting Sales team in debt recovery and prevention of OVDs
- Documentation of sales transactions for recovery
- Assist the Legal manager in advisory and company secretarial responsibilities
Principal Accountabilities:
- Working closely with our Sales team in recovery of debts and documentation of business transactions
- Follow up of court cases with electronic case management system ( IECMS)
- Manage Court Schedules with the External Law Firm
- Report the outcome of each litigation
- Encourage Settlement agreements with debtors and payment without litigations
- Follow up contracts execution with Sales team
- Ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations and policies
- Assisting in Maintaining all corporate records and documenting all corporate decisions
- Ensure documentation of corporate assets titles
- Reviewing and preparing contracts and documentation used by the Company
- Providing training to staff on various areas related to legal aspects of the Company’s compliance responsibilities
- Coordinating the company’s courts representation and receivership
- Under supervision and guidance of the Legal Manager, Coordinate and oversee the pursuit of claims by the Company as applicable, and protect the Company against claims by third parties
- Keep up to date the debt register and the payment plan (done jointly with the Treasury and Sales departments).
- Keep the Legal Datasite (documents repository) and Blueprint updated
- Assisting Legal Manager in management of legal correspondences (initiation of notices, response to notices, etc)
- Replace the Legal Manager during his absence
- Other duties may be assigned
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Law (Post graduate diploma in Legal Practice or Master’s Degree in Law (LLM) is an added advantage but not a requirement)
- Knowledge of the Rwanda Legal System and mastering the IECMS (Integrated Case Management System)
- Experience with a Corporate Law Firm (as Legal Officer)
- Have proficient knowledge on the use of Microsoft Office packages.
- Good communication and drafting skills
- Analytical and Problem Solving
- Experience of 1-2 years’ experience in similar positions
- · The incumbent should have adequate knowledge of Knowledge of legal system, procedures and the case management platform. · Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proficiency in French and English language
Benefits
The job offers the following among other benefits:
- A competitive basic salary based on qualification and experience
- Medical insurance for the employee and family (spouse+ up to 4 legitimate/adopted children)
- A supplementary pension scheme paid with a private insurance company
- Other allowances: meal allowance, canteen allowance, airtime allowance, etc.
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