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Senior Managing Counsel - Southern and East Africa
Visa Inc.
Posted 3 months agoJohannesburg, South Africa
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Banking & Finance
Job Description
Team Summary
The Visa CEMEA Legal team manages Visa's legal affairs within Visa Central and Eastern
Europe Middle East and Africa region (CEMEA) region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business objectives are successfully met and that Visa's brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risks. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her
This is a role to manage the Legal function in fast growing, complicated and important markets of Southern and Eastern Africa (SEA) sub-region within Visa CEMEA. The position will report directly to Visa’s SVP and Chief Counsel of CEMEA Region, as well have a soft line reporting to the Group Country Manager for SEA. This job requires an experienced commercial and payments technology lawyer to deal with varied and complicated issues SEA sub-region has.
The role includes helping to support the GCM for SEA in all aspects of day-to-day Visa business, including full compliance with local laws and regulations, antitrust advice, new payment flows, the core business, and all commercial and legal aspects of Visa investments in the sub-region. It also includes taking accountability and management for the sub-region for the SVP and Chief Counsel of Visa CEMEA and being the go-to, commercial and credible adviser for the GCM and the Heads of Functions in the sub-region. Further, there will be an expanded development and integration of the local legal teams, integrating and further upskilling them to meet the new challenges as Visa pivots its business to the changes in the sub-region.
The applicant must therefore be able to manage multiple market priorities in a fast-paced and challenging, but rewarding environment.
We are looking for a strong leader who can bring a breadth of experience and knowledge to our business. As a candidate, you should have:
Transactional background with significant experience drafting and negotiating a w
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Requirements
- Key Competencies & Requirements
- Law degree and qualification which allows for in house practice in South Africa
- Minimum 15+ years PQE with an international law firm and/or a multinational organization
- Experience in banking, FinTech, information technology and payment industry
- Experience working in a US/multinational/ highly matrix organisation is preferred
- Credible team leadership skills
- Professional manner and executive presence for dealing with all levels of the business from EVP to Analyst
- Have significant experience guiding and working directly with executive management, and the leadership teams
- Strong communication skills
- Strong team building skills
- Self-motivated and very importantly, be collaborative and a strong team player
- Ability to work cross-functionally within the organization to implement projects
- Excellent organisation skills
- Have a global mindset and the ability to work well in a dynamic and deadline-oriented environment
Responsibilities
- responsibility to protect the company.
- What a Sr. Managing Counsel, Head of Legal does at Visa
- In this role, you are expected to:
- Maintain a zero-tolerance legal environment for compliance process,
- Be a strong negotiator with strong influencing skills, experienced at managing and helping clients and more junior lawyers, including with regards to best practices, terms and approaches in transactions.
- Work and provide leadership in all Legal matters for SEA Leadership Team, to understand, achieve and meet their key business objectives
- Draft, negotiate and drive to completion, complex commercial, and strategic partnership agreements that achieve GCM’s business objectives
