Overview

Advans La Fayette Microfinance Bank, as an international registered microfinance bank, offers a complete range of financial services and means of payment for its customers including savings accounts, current accounts and fixed deposit accounts.

Job Position: Senior Legal Officer

Job Location: Lagos Island, Lagos

Job Description

  1. Support to provide analysis on legal and policy issues
  2. Support in co-ordinating the writing and updating of processes, procedures and other guides relating to operations
  3. Review contracts, legal related documents, internal policies and ensure they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements
  4. Support to manage the Institution’s charged off loans and non- performing assets
  5. Provide legal counsel to recover outstanding debts from defaulting Customers.
  6. Conduct research into variety of legal issues.
  7. Examine and report newly published laws, acts and regulations and ascertaining how these affect the institution’s business
  8. Perfecting of legal documentation.
  9. Support in recommending operating policy and procedural improvements.
  10. Keep abreast with all government legislations and CBN policies that may affect operations and present opinion/advise on same
  11. Provide support for all Law Enforcement related matters when required to do so
  12. Support to develop comprehensive reports on matters that are to be instituted in Court

Compliance:

  1. Support to create necessary awareness on regulatory and supervisory provisions, circulars, directive and legislations affecting the bank’s operation and objectives
  2. Support to collaborate with HR department to provide periodic trainings for staff on Regulatory compliance.
  3. Follow up on approved recommendations of CBN, NDIC etc.
  4. Ensure full compliance of monthly reporting to regulatory bodies CBN, NDIC, EFCC, Credit bureaux.
  5. Prepare evaluation report on compliance to the management on monthly basis

Job Requirements

  • Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 7+ years post-call experience in a standard organization preferably a financial institution.

Application Deadline
25th September, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: recruitment@advansnigeria.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

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