Job Title: Legal Consultant
Organisation: CFAO Motors Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
CFAO Motors Uganda is the exclusive manufacturer-authorised distributor of brand-new Toyota Vehicles and genuine parts in Uganda, as well as exclusively offering Toyota Manufacturer’s warranty. CFAO Motors Uganda is a subsidiary of CFAO Automotive, a division of the CFAO Group, which is part of Toyota Tsusho Corporation.
Job Summary: The Legal Consultant is responsible for leading the legal function of the organization, ensuring full compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and providing strategic legal support across all business units. This role involves managing legal risks, overseeing contract and transaction matters, supporting
corporate governance, and implementing internal audit and compliance programs.
The Legal Consultant also supervises legal staff and provides advisory services on labor, tax, procurement, real estate, and financial transactions while representing the company in legal proceedings and stakeholder engagements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contract management and corporate transaction matters: drafting, negotiating, reviewing and managing expiry and renewal of all contracts and other legal documents.
- Procurement matters: Review and advise on tenders, pre-qualifications. And other related documents including preparation of procurement award letters.
- Labor law & Human Resource support: Advise on labor & employment matters; sitting in on disciplinary hearings as required by the company.
- Board secretarial services: Handling corporate governance matters & registration of company documents.
- Compliance & regulatory services: filing & registration of documents; processing business licenses. Ensure compliance with relevant legislation.
- Legal support to the Company’s projects: Advisory on project planning; project related diligences; monitoring local compliance requirements.
- Implementation of CFAO Group Compliance Programs (Anti-fraud/Anti-bribery) & Anti-Corruption program among any other applicable laws/regulations that may affect CFAO’s business.
- Tax advisory: Legal advisory on tax issues affecting the company; advising on tax trends that affect CFAO’s business.
- Stakeholder engagement: Representing the company at meetings with stakeholders/business partners/tax authorities etc.
- Real estate transactions/advisory on business
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Graduate
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below. Please attach your curriculum vitae and academic transcripts/certificates as one document.
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience required