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
- 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
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.