Senior Legal Officer at Advans La Fayette Microfinance Bank

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Legal Officer

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

Job Description
Legal:

• 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

Requirements

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

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.