Job Title: Legal and Compliance Officer
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
Legal:
- Support to provide analysis on legal and policy issues
- Support in co-ordinating the writing and updating of processes, procedures and other guides relating to operations
- Review contracts, legal related documents, internal policies and ensure they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements
- Support to manage the Institution’s charged off loans and non- performing assets
- Provide legal counsel to recover outstanding debts from defaulting Customers.
- Conduct research into variety of legal issues.
- Examine and report newly published laws, acts and regulations and ascertaining how these affect the institution’s business
- Perfecting of legal documentation.
- Support in recommending operating policy and procedural improvements.
- Keep abreast with all government legislations and CBN policies that may affect operations and present opinion/advise on same
- Provide support for all Law Enforcement related matters when required to do so
- Support to develop comprehensive reports on matters that are to be instituted in Court.
Compliance:
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- Support to create necessary awareness on regulatory and supervisory provisions, circulars, directive and legislations affecting the bank’s operation and objectives
- Support to collaborate with HR department to provide periodic trainings for staff on Regulatory compliance.
- Follow up on approved recommendations of CBN, NDIC etc.
- Ensure full compliance of monthly reporting to regulatory bodies CBN, NDIC, EFCC, Credit bureaux.
- Prepare evaluation report on compliance to the management on monthly basis
Profile
- Education level: Degree in Law and a relevant Professional certification is an advantage.
- Specific training required:
- Training on Company products and services.
- Work experience required (domain and number of years):
- Must have a minimum of Four (4) years post call legal experience out of which minimum of twelve (12) months in a fnancial institution.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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Job Features
Job Category | Legal / Law |