Legal and Compliance Officer at HR-EX Consulting

HR-EX Consulting partners with small businesses looking for affordable HR professional advisory and services. In practice, we operate as an outsourced HR department and provide professional HR services for small businesses for a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal and Compliance Officer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Responsibilities
Contract Management and Administration:

• Develop, negotiate and evaluate contracts on behalf of the Company.
• Advise and enforce the company rights and ensure the company meets its obligations in each project by communicating expectations to relevant departments.
• Monitor key contract dates to ensure all contract terms are applied timely and correctly.
• Manage legal, project and contracting risk of the company and ensure that any contractual or legal matter affecting the Project execution is properly addressed.
• Liaise with other departments and third-party representative regularly to address issues that may arise from each contract renewal, contract award, contract resolutions and contract follow-up action items.
• Provide contract status reports to management for review.
• Carry out evaluations and provide close out reports for each project and identify gaps and areas of improvement.
• Assist the other team in preparing requests and responses for contractual interpretations and providing responses to requests for contract clarification, deviations or changes.

Compliance:

• Ensure that business operations are in line with all applicable laws, regulations, best practices, internal policies and procedures.
• Prepare compliance documentation for statutory, legal, and regulatory purposes.
• Ensure all regulatory licences, certificates, permits are up to date.
• Be abreast of regulatory developments and industry initiatives and advise management accordingly.
• Develop and ensure that the company meets its compliance obligations under relevant laws and the requirements of regulatory authorities.
• Develop compliance checklists and prepare compliance reports, as and when due.

Legal:

• Negotiate, draft and review all documents that has legal implications for the company prior to execution and implementation with third parties.
• Advise the management and other departments on legal issues and matters relating to or resulting from the company’s operations.
• Litigation and case management activities.
• Provision of legal, regulatory and compliance support to related entities.
• Maintain legal and statutory records of the company.
• Liaise with professional advisers and consultants such as auditors, external lawyers, tax advisers, bankers and shareholders.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law
• At least 5 years post qualification experience inclusive of 2 years admiralty litigation experience.
• Prior knowledge of BIMCO contracts and other maritime contracts
• Special knowledge of regulatory compliance with NUPRC, NIMASA, NCDMB, NPA etc.
• Ability to work without supervision.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.