Citibank Nigeria Limited, the leading global financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Compliance Officer
Job ID: 15103462
Location: Nigeria
Job Function: Compliance and Control
Job Purpose
- The individual will play a key role in developing and maintaining a robust control environment in across the bank in general.
- He/she will be responsible for coordinating, monitoring and advising on compliance with business, global, regional, and local compliance policies, procedures, and requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Implementation of all applicable compliance programs across the bank;
- Ensure all compliance reviews/reports are being performed timely, adequately and appropriately documented;
- Monitoring compliance to regulatory and internal policies, processes and procedures by staff across the bank in general;
- Reporting all forms of compliance breaches to the Chief Compliance Officer;
- Bringing to the attention of the Country Compliance Officer any suspicious transaction/activity;
- Carrying out compliance advisory services across the bank;
- Liaising with local Regulators, Law Enforcement and other Governmental Bodies and ensure good relationships with same;
- Work closely with the Business and other key stakeholders such as Operations & Technology to identify and mitigate the risks associated with existing and new business with emphasis on higher risk customers and transactions;
- Contribute to a “no surprise” compliance culture;
- Raise the visibility of compliance by specifically improving the compliance risk assessment and compliance testing standards across the bank;
- Manage ad-hoc compliance related projects as required.
Qualifications
Knowledge/Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in the Banking sector
- Experience of at least 3 major areas of banking operations
- Knowledge of relevant regulations
- Experience in compliance monitoring reviews, e.g. account opening or periodic reviews
Skills:
- Strong written and personal communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to manage and facilitate multiple projects
- Ability to work individually and in teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft office applications
- Ability to embrace new technologies
- Interpersonal skills
- Strong written and personal communication skills
- Attention to details
- Ability to manage and facilitate multiple projects
- Ability to work individually and in teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft office applications
- Good presentation skills
- Ability to embrace new technologies
- Interpersonal skills
Qualifications and Competencies
- First degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law or any other discipline
- Relevant higher degree and professional qualification
- Operations, Control, risk related experience will be an added advantage Competencies:
- Highly organized and methodical with close attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to co-operative and collaborative working
- Strong team player willing to learn and share experience with other team members
- Flexibility to work with changing priorities and deadlines
- Strong team player, given cross functional role
- Enthusiastic approach to understanding key bank systems and willingness to apply these on ongoing basis
- Enthusiastic & flexible with ability to use own initiative and work independently
- Ability to multi-task
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- High accountability & ownership
- Articulate
- Self-confident, self-motivated
- Ability to learn & develop to take on exceptional tasks
- Strong time management.
- High tolerance for work pressure - perseverance and flexibility.
- Ability to handle conflict effectively.
- Commitment to learning
- Highly organized and methodical with close attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to co-operative and collaborative working
- Strong team player willing to learn and share experience with other team members
- Flexibility to work with changing priorities and deadlines
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online