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Contracts and Legal Specialist (CBS0306)

Overview

Reference
CBS0306

Salary
ZAR/hour

Job Location
South Africa -Johannesburg Metro -Johannesburg

Job Type
Contract

Posted
03 June 2026

Closing date
12 Jun 2026 21:59


Deloitte seeks to employ a Contracting & Legal Support professional to assist with Contracting and Legal support for the advisory business. 

Role summary:

  • Provide pragmatic contracting and legal transactional support to Deloitte’s Advisory practice: drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, assessing legal risk, ensuring policy compliance and advising internal clients to enable timely, compliant deal closures.

 

Key responsibilities: 

  • Draft, review and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, DPAs, sub‑contracts, amendments and related commercial documents using Deloitte templates.
  • Produce clear redlines, negotiation plans and 1‑page executive risk summaries for business owners.
  • Assess and quantify contractual risks (liability, indemnities, IP, data protection, regulatory) and recommend mitigation or escalation.
  • Ensure contracts comply with Deloitte policies and approval workflows; run basic sanctions/AML/export control checks where required.
  • Maintain contract register and update CLM metadata; coordinate signature, countersignature and archiving.
  • Advise deal teams in plain English, attend negotiation calls, and prepare scripted fallback positions.
  • Contribute to process improvement: template updates, clause bank maintenance, repository clean‑ups and playbook creation.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Laws Degree
  • Minimum of 6 years experience 

 


Contact information

Rashida Summersgill