Compliance Officer
Location: Greenwich Registrars and Data Solutions, Yaba, Lagos.
Mode of Work: 100% Onsite
Job Objective
- Ensuring strict compliance with Regulatory requirements
- Supervising and ensuring accurate resolution and responses to legal enquiries, shareholder complaints and regulators’ queries are given.
- Creating and managing responses to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
- Resolving employee questions and queries about legal compliance
Responsibilities
- Providing support to the Chief Compliance Officer in ensuring compliance with all company policies for both internal and external operations.
- Monitoring rendition of all returns by the Finance, Internal Control and Business
- Development teams including return monies, tax returns, monthly statements to SEC and half yearly returns to client companies.
- Monitoring internal policies and recommending necessary policies and policy review in compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Ensuring all correspondences and inquiries from regulatory authorities, and law enforcement agencies, individuals, corporate bodies are attended to in compliance with regulatory standards.
- Ensuring all fillings/returns (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual) in respect of the Company are up to date
- Liaising with regulatory authorities, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Police to resolve all Compliance-related issues.
- Rendering of all weekly, quarterly and annual returns to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit and other regulatory authorities including AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and CFT (Counter-Terrorism Financing).
- Identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, and work with Internal Control to identify and drive corrective action plans for the resolution of problematic issues.
- Training employees on compliance requirements towards maintaining a compliance culture within the organisation.
- Providing support to the internal departments by following up with relevant parties in resolving exceptions raised in Regulatory audits.
- Ensuring shareholders’ complaints are adequately treated to avoid regulatory sanctions.
- Reviewing all litigation matters to ensure compliance with internal and external policies and regulatory standards.
- Drafting and/or reviewing all Agreements to ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards
As Data Protection Officer:
- Working with the Data Protection Consultant Organization (DPCO) Andersen Tax LP for the conduct of Data Privacy and Protection Audit/annual filing in line with the requirements of the NDPB.
- Working and developing internal procedures to ensure that the company records no regulatory infractions.
Creating general awareness/training on the importance of Data Privacy and Compliance
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B); Barrister at Law (B.L.) Call to the Nigerian Bar
- Post graduate degree and/or relevant professional qualification will be an added advantage.
- Minimum of 8 years work experience and legal/company secretariat experience.
- Experience in the financial services industry and a Plc. is preferable.
- Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking capabilities.
- Exceptional understanding of regulatory frameworks and guidelines.
Application
Interested and Qualified candidates should send their updated CV to careers@gtlregistrars.com
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