Legal Compliance Officer at Eden Solutions and Resources Limited

Consulting with Eden Solutions and Resources empowers organizations to leverage their expertise, unlocking strategic insights and customized solutions that drive sustainable growth, elevate performance, and navigate complex business challenges with confidence.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Compliance Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description 
Legal:

• Support to provide analysis on legal and policy issues
• Support in coordinating 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
• The 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 training 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 a monthly basis.

Requirements

• Education level: Degree in Law and a relevant professional certification is an advantage.
• The ideal candidate should have a Minimum of 6+ years experience,
• Knowledge of Compliance and Regulatory Compliance is mandatory

Application Closing Date
17th December, 2023.