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Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

About Deloitte Tax & Legal 

We have a team of approximately 280 professional staff members across South Africa comprised of qualified charted accountants and lawyers who offer specialist insight across many industries.   Deloitte Tax professionals keep current on the latest changes that impact clients' business tax strategy, enabling clients to focus on business objectives while we address the tax requirements.   Deloitte Legal, amongst the largest legal and regulatory service providers in Africa, assists clients operating in increasingly complex legal, regulatory and digital environments through a multidisciplinary approach, combining integrated legal and commercial expertise. 

Purpose of the role: To lead the Service / Business Area through driving and implementation of strategy, revenue generation and business growth, as well as establishing strong leadership brand and inspire follower-ship through passion, integrity and appreciation of others.

• Admitted and enrolled Attorney
• 7 years’ post articles consulting experience with deep skills in employment law and related workforce management services

Experience required: 

• Admitted and enrolled Attorney
• 7 years’ post articles consulting experience with deep skills in employment law and related workforce management services
• 7 to 9 years post articles experience in Employment Law
• 10 years in a client service role, with 7 of these in a senior management role

Specialized Capabilities

•    The position would suit someone who is able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and wants to deliver all-encompassing solutions to clients (working with immigration, tax, legal and consulting colleagues) in relation to workforce issues
•    Ability to work across jurisdictions with our other Deloitte Legal offices and our alliance partners
•    Advising on, amongst other things, employment law issues arising in sales of business, group reorganisations, large scale retrenchments
•    Drafting of employment contracts (including for senior employees) and related documents and policies
•    Drafting of legal opinions
•    Resolving disputes in the workplace
•    Advising employers on their rights and obligations

Core Professional Technical Capabilities 
•    Strategic Impact - Implements the strategy within area of business through a detailed plan including client targets to achieve revenue
•    Budgets / Profitability - Identifies innovative solutions to enhance / renew service offerings to market
•    Delivery Excellence - Able to lead projects and provide strategic direction across the account to deliver a superior client experience
•    Executive Presence - Able to project confidence, establish credibility with, and influence clients at all levels
•    Global Mindset - Able to adopt a global approach to networking, building eminence, and assembling teams to best serve clients and maximize engagement economics
•    Risk Strategy - Able to leverage a keen understanding of the client’s strategy to influence and advise client’s senior leadership on key risk decisions
•    Sales & Business Development - Able to sell potential and current clients on Deloitte’s services and negotiate profitable transactions for the Firm
•    Counsels and Develops Boards of Directors - Able to enable boards of directors to make strategic decisions and effectively perform their oversight duties
•    Sets Corporate Governance Vision - Able to help clients transform their corporate governance infrastructure by defining a clear, insight-based strategy
•    Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Facilitates innovative solutions to client problems and drives changes to processes or ways of working based on new trends/recent developments
•    Technology Tools and Solutions - Demonstrates advanced knowledge of service line or market specific technology solutions
•    Good understanding of business principles
•    Good knowledge of accounting principles and practices
•    Inventory, WIP and Client Management Experience 
•    Previous working experience in the international market would be advantageous
•    Computer literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities
•    Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model and inspires others to embrace and live our purpose and values
•    Competitive Edge - Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement
•    Influence - Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
•    Performance drive - Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
•    Strategic direction - Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives
•    Talent development - Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams
•    Inspirational Leadership - Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires follower-ship through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.