ABOUT CELLULANT
Cellulant is a leading Pan African payments technology company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional, and local merchants.
We provide a single API payments platform - Tingg - that enables businesses to collect payments online and offline while allowing anyone to pay from their mobile money, local and international cards or directly from their bank.
Our Story
Founded in 2003, Cellulant has more than 18 years of experience in providing locally relevant payment solutions for businesses and their consumers.
Our evolution from a digital content business to mobile banking and now to payments has allowed us to build strong relationships and partnerships. We’ve taken our years of experience and assets acquired over the years to provide a payments platform in the continent that focuses on driving merchant business and digital payments for local, regional, and global merchants in the continent, and digitising both online and offline payments.
Through the years, the Cellulant team has learned, adapted, and leveraged their experiences to pivot the business to become the leading payments provider in the continent. We have over 400 staff members, are physically present in 18 countries and we provide our services in 35 countries across Africa. .
Read more about us, our group leadership team and our country champions.
Our Mission: | Our Vision: |
To create opportunities that accelerate economic growth for all of Africa. | To enable seamless payments across Africa for businesses, banks, and consumers. |
At Cellulant, we are not all that hung up on titles, but we know that it is important to one’s career and personal growth. The title for this role is: | Senior Manager: Legal |
The role is located in: Cellulant supports hybrid and remote working options. | Location agnostic with a strong preference for Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Dubai - UAE or Egypt |
This particular area at Cellulant is led by: | Reports to: Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer |
Your key relationship and stakeholders across the business are: | Key Relationships and Stakeholders: Business, Product, Technology, Regulators, External Legal Counsel, Company Secretaries, and other counterparties |
Here is a short description of the role and some high-level requirements: | As the Head of Legal at Cellulant, you will play a pivotal role in our senior management team. This position is instrumental in bolstering a culture of strict compliance, by continuously updating our Risk Compliance Officer (GCRCO), executive board, and other management tiers on all relevant existing and emerging legislation and regulations, ensuring their relevance and applicability to Cellulant. A significant facet of this role encompasses supervising legal operations within Cellulant. This will involve delegating duties to a proficient team of legal experts and other personnel to assure adherence to laws and regulations in daily operations. As the Head of Legal, you will serve as the key advisor to our board of directors, CEO, and Cellulant's executive team on all legal concerns. Your expert advice will shape a comprehensive and efficient legal framework, thereby enabling Cellulant to conduct business seamlessly and lawfully in all markets in which we operate. |
Your core responsibilities in this role will include the following: We strive to keep things simple yet connected, so expect to be stretched and challenged to work outside of your comfort zone and core tasks from time to time. | As the Head of Legal, your responsibilities will be as follows:
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To be successful in this role, it will be to your advantage to have some of the following knowledge and experience: | Must have experience:
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1§We are intent on creating opportunities for all of Africa and we do so with passion, focus and intellect; therefore, the following qualifications, skills and personal attributes will be highly advantageous: | Qualification:
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