Head of Legal Affairs and Compliance | Board secretary
SADAD Electronic Payment System BSC (Closed)
Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months
I. Legal risk
• Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management especially on contract management.
• Provide and interpret legal information, conduct training and disseminate appropriate legal requirements to staff.
II. Policy development
• Review and advise management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
• Review and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
III. Regulatory compliance
• Ensure a company is being run legally and ethically, complying with all regulations that apply to the industry.
• Responsible for reviewing the current and prospective risk a business enterprise faces.
• Formulate compliance check-lists to be used for the purpose of ensuring that all information required is provided accordingly.
• Continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations and advise management accordingly.
IV. AML responsibilities:
• Develop policies internally relating to AML in the company and oversee the implementation of those policies
• Implement the annual AML plan and perform the relevant quality assurance checks to ensure adherence
• Conduct due diligence reviews
• Report results of reviews of AML risk assessments and monitor remedial proceedings
• Identify, investigate, and resolve all activities that are deemed noncompliant.
• Review and approve all advertisements for publishing and broadcasting
• Plan AML training sessions
• Act as a subject matter expert for the business and point of reference to address related queries
Inform the relevant authorities of any breaches
• Compile reports for the board and internal risk committees
• Address issues relating to transaction monitoring, filtering, and sanctions
V. Contract negotiation
• Review all contracts or any other documentation where the Company has committed itself and assess legal implications that need to be brought to the executive management’s attention.
• Prepare, review and modify contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities.
• Negotiate, review and draft documentation for business transactions and prepare and advise on the necessary checklist to be adopted to ensure information is submitted on time.
VI. Board Secretary duties
• Oversee that the board follows the correct procedures and that the board complies with its obligations under the law and the company’s MOA.
• Assist the chairman of the board in organizing the board’s activities (including providing information, preparing an agenda, reporting of meetings, evaluations and training programs as well as arranging, recording and following up on the actions, decisions and meetings of the Board and of the shareholders (both at annual and extraordinary meetings).
•Reviewing and providing legal advice, and preparing opinions on legal questions arising in the course of business and ensuring adherence to legality in business activity and protect its legal interests.
• Liaising with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Providing and interpreting legal information to the Management.
• Providing legal protection and risk management advice to management especially on contracts, Agreements & MOUs.
• Reviewing and drafting contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensuring that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Representing company in mediation, arbitration, and other state and public organizations in the process of considering legal issues.
• Drafting corporate documents (Board of Directors and Shareholders resolutions, Memorandum and Articles of Associations, MOU
• Responsible for evaluation of the regulatory risks and compliance with company laws, anti-monopoly legislation;
• Managing process pertaining to the ordinary and extra ordinary shareholders’ meetings and meetings of the Board of Directors;
• Participating in the M&A transactions, including due diligence process, risk assessment, support for transactions involving the acquisition of companies;
• Preparing all necessary paperwork and executing the companies' reorganization (restructuring).
• Preparing legal correspondence and presentations;
• Participating in administrative actions, and other interactions with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russian Federation.
•Reviewing and providing legal advice, and preparing opinions on legal questions arising in the course of business and ensuring adherence to legality in business activity and protect its legal interests.
• Liaising with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Providing and interpreting legal information to the Management.
• Providing legal protection and risk management advice to management especially on contracts, Agreements & MOUs.
• Reviewing and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Representing company in mediation, arbitration, and other state and public organizations in the process of considering legal issues.
Ural State University Yekaterinburg, Russia, Postgraduate Diploma in International Business.
1991-2001 — School - gimnasium Kustanay, Kazakhstan, math, history, languages, Certificate of Secondary Education (Attestat), GPA: 5 out of 5.