Deadline of this Job: 12 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Legal & Compliance Associate
Job Purpose
This role holder will be responsible for the provision of legal advisory services, organizational compliance with the Industry Regulator Guidelines, and ensuring effective management of legal and contractual risks for Britam Rwanda. The role holder will have dual reporting to the CEO Britam Rwanda and Group Legal and Compliance roles.
Legal
Key Responsibilities
• Managing all Claims related legal matters in liaison with the Claims Department and engaging with Regulators and the external lawyers and liaising with Claims Department to manage third party recoveries.
• Reviewing progress of outstanding litigation and liaising with and managing external lawyers in line with the SLAs.
• Regularly review the company’s legal panel and advice management of any changes required in line with the SLAs.
• Monitor court attendance by the company’s appointed advocates on the company’s legal matters.
• Prepare half yearly Legal reserves reports for all legal claims matters.
• Manage the entire litigation process with diligence, professionally and ensure timely closure of matters.
• Liaising with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Advise the business on all matters requiring legal interpretation to enable effective management of legal risks.
• Review newly instituted matters/ regulations and advise management.
• Research and interpret regulatory requirements of new Insurance products and/or services.
• Providing Legal Advisory and necessary assistance in respect to Product Development and Review in liaison with the Legal Department.
Compliance Management
• Responsible for the timely identification, assessment, mitigation and reporting, and escalation of all identified operational and compliance risk exposures.
• Keep up to date with, and understand, relevant laws and regulations governing the business entity.
• Monitor compliance with laws, regulations and internal policies and procedures.
• Advise management and the board on the company’s compliance with laws and regulations and other compliance risks through detailed reports.
• Participate in the development and review of organizational policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with other departments to create a culture of compliance.
• Ensure AML and KYC policies are in place are adhered to.
• Ensure timely, efficient reporting of suspicious transactions.
• Monitor and provide advice to management to minimize risk resulting from poor internal controls.
Governance
• Ensure there are appropriate structures, processes and documentation in place in relation to Britam Group’s Governance practices.
• Ensure compliance with Group corporate governance requirements and co-ordinate the annual legal, compliance and governance audits.
• Keep abreast with the relevant changes in governance best practice.
• Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.
Key Performance Measures
• As described in your Personal Score Card
Deadline of this Job: 13 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Labour Inspector
Level:4.III
Job description
- Key Responsibilities: Labour inspector is responsible of ensuring decent and productive jobs through ensuring labour governance, compliance inspections, labour disputes prevention and mediation, occupational safety and health and prevention of child labour.
- Functions:
1. Ensuring decent and productivity-based compliance inspections
Tasks/Responsibilities
• Ensuring the development of informed annual compliance plans
• Conducting compliance-based instead of traditional inspection inspections
• Building competent labour inspection personnel
• Enhancing digitalization of labour inspection systems
• Influencing the review National procurement Laws and Regulations to make Decent Work a bidding requirement
• Ensuring the establishment of partnership agreements with various Stakeholders
• Ensuring mainstreaming Decent Work into annual action plans by various Stakeholders
• Ensuring the development of reporting templates for Decent Work mainstreaming
• Conducting trainings on Decent Work mainstreaming among Stakeholders
• Establishing Decent Work mainstreaming steering committee
• Monitoring the implementation of Decent Work requirement among successful bidders
• Enhancing the role of labour inspections with priority to Decent Work indicators such as: Notification and payment of employees’ contributions to RSSB, payment of employees’ salaries through banks and other financial institutions, issuance of employment contracts to employees, etc.
• Conducting awareness campaigns among employers through media, meetings and forums on formalization of informal workers
• Enhancing the involvement and partnership with various Government Institutions, Employers and Trade Unions in the journey to formalization
• Incentivizing formalization with various opportunities