Associate Company Secretary / Legal Officer Job at KNN Corporate Services Limited

KNN Corporate Services Limited is a dynamic group of professionals with more than three decades of combined experience in supporting businesses, providing corporate governance, HR consulting and company secretarial services. We are young, energetic, and highly proficient in our various fields, and also enjoy serving you - our client.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Associate Company Secretary / Legal Officer

Job Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Brief

• We are a corporate services firm that renders company secretarial / legal advisory / human resources & governance consulting services on an outsourced basis; looking to hire a young, smart and self-motivated lawyer who will join the team in providing qualitative and innovative services to our esteemed clients.
• Our ideal candidate must be very confident, trustworthy, reliable, confident, very well-organized with experience in company secretarial and legal advisory services.

Job Description

• Draft and review a wide variety of legal agreements.
• Provide legal advice/ opinion on corporate legal issues and business matters.
• Prepare correspondence and legal documents such as contracts, pleadings, briefs, affidavits, motions, and settlement agreements for contract negotiations and proceedings.
• Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses.
• Provide the full spectrum of company secretarial services to external clients on an outsourced basis.
• Ensure the proper safe keeping and update of the company registers, statutory books, and corporate seal.
• Managing clients’ cases from start to finish.
• Ensure clients’ adherence to extant laws and regulations.
• Monitor the maintenance of the registers and other records required to be maintained and/or filed by the organization under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA 2020).
• Draft guidelines, policies, and procedures documents.
• Assessing the company’s/clients’ corporate governance practices and providing advice on how to improve them.
• Incorporate new businesses and develop the governance structures.
• Assist in identifying, analyzing, and evaluating legal risks and developing risk mitigation strategies to protect the company/client’s, assets, and stakeholders’ interest respectively.
• Conduct land & title searches as well as perfection of title.

Qualifications

• A graduate Degree of Law from a reputable university (minimum of second class upper).
• Member of the Nigerian Bar Association.
• Proven 3 - 6 years post NYSC experience.

Required Skills:

• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office applications especially Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge of corporate/company & labour law.
• Commitment and enthusiasm in the delivery of the organization's objectives.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
• Advanced critical and legal reasoning skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and team working abilities.
• Excellent research and writing skills. A record of undertaking research and writing of papers, reports, and presentations would be an added advantage.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@knncorporate.com using the Job position as the subject of the mail.