Legal & Compliance Officer at Davenport Microfinance Bank Limited

Davenport Microfinance Bank offers a complete range of financial services and means of payment for its customers, including savings accounts, current accounts and other financial services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal & Compliance Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

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:

• 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 financial institution.

Application Closing Date
18th January, 2023.