BACKGROUND

EthioChicken is a leading distributor of chickens to rural farmers in Ethiopia. We are a rapidly growing Company that believes in investing in our employees and offers them opportunities for career advancement. EthioChicken is an Ethiopian based company.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to bring a chicken to every family in Ethiopia in 2021, and a chicken to every person in Ethiopia in the future, transforming the Ethiopian poultry industry, making it a model of inclusive growth.

Job Summary

The Legal and Compliance Manager, under the supervision of Finance Director, is responsible for coordinating, documenting, reviewing and reacting upon all legal, regulatory, audit and compliance issues. Assist also in getting different business and investment licenses and renewals. The scope of work will cover all Ethiochicken companies at group, operating and subsidiary levels.

 Duties and responsibilities

Legal and regulatory project administration

• Attend all external legal council meetings for coordination of all required actions
• Facilitate research and coordinate with external advisers
• Manage projects related to corporate formation, dissolution, and amendments to articles of incorporation by board resolution

Legal documentation management and archiving

• Indexing and managing digitalization process
• Create efficiently accessible archives for use in financing applications and auditor inquiries

External stakeholder, shareholder, and grantor relationship management

• Track and organize communication and follow-up to shareholders, lenders, grantors, regulatory agencies, and other stakeholders
• Curate grantor reporting documentation
• Data archive curator
• Select appropriate IT solution to safely archive critical corporate documents o  Manage vendor relationship for this IT solution
• Ensure regular archiving and backup

Customer Follow - Up

• Assist in credit customer balances & collection
• Chase default customers and take to court as the need arises
• Take necessary legal actions on post-dated customer checks

Contract Follow-up

• Ensure company contracts are legally framed in their contents which keep company benefits and rights as protected.
• Ensure all documents need document authorization are authorized by DARO& respective institutions
• Ensure also stamp duties are paid properly on the respective contracts

Labor Issues

• Work with HR unit in all labor related issues to ensure they are legally in order
• Assist HR in employee anger management, misunderstanding & incompliances
• Represent the company in all employee related legal issues at the necessary rezional and federal courts
• Other related duties as stipulated by the Finance Controller

Audit and compliance

• Supervise an audits and compliance whether internal or external
• Report audit and compliance matters to the FD and MD or user departments heads

Secretarial

• Coordinate with management companies to ensure compliance with registrations, shareholder and director resolutions
• Ensure proper filing of secretarial registers like shareholder registers, director’s register and officer’s registers
• Attend to board matters as maybe requested including matters like board minutes compilation.

Job Requirements

Competences

• Must be able to work under pressure, meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
• Highly motivated to learn about the complexities of business administration and legal compliance
• Detail oriented

Qualifications and Requirement

• Bachelor's Degree in law

 Experience

• 3-5 years as company legal representative
• Business administration experience would be considered an advantage

How to Apply

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Please title your application with subject line: - "Legal and Compliance Manager" 

Only candidates meeting the required qualifications are invited to send their applications(Cover Letter) including a detailed CV through CLICK HERE or e-mail: careers@ethiochicken.com

                     Women are highly encouraged to apply!