Commercial Trust Advisor BD at ARM Hold Co.

 Job Summary
The Commercial Trust Advisor/Business Development Officer is responsible for monitoring and ensuring the compliance of Trustee duties and obligation(s) to all existing commercial trust mandates in accordance with existing regulations. He/She also ensures effective relationship management of our clients, joint professional parties, other transaction parties, regulators and Capital Market Operators.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The responsibilities and roles for this job are as follows:

• Monitors and ensures compliance of the Trustees’ duties and obligation to all existing commercial trust mandates in accordance with the provision and requirement of the ISA, SEC Rules, TIA, CAMA and other related regulation.
• Peruse and review existing and prospecting transaction documents in consonance with other parties including but not limited to Trust Deeds, Prospectus, Programme and circular in State and Corporate Bond, Project Financing, Loan Syndication, Debenture, Legal Mortgage, title documents, Trust deed and Tripartite agreements.
• Document, register, hold in safe custody and coordinate the perfection (where required) of security documents and title documents of existing transactions with the appropriate statutory authorities.
• Effective relationship management of our clients, joint professional parties, other transaction parties, regulators and Capital Market Operators.
• Liaising and coordinating services of external solicitors’ to the company’s on-going transactions to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Liaising with the relevant units to ensure investment of funds under management on existing transactions are made in accordance with permitted investment guidelines and to ensure maximum return to the company’s finance.
• Ensures company's compliance to all regulatory requirement(s) and liaises with the relevant Units to ensure that requisite returns to the appropriate regulatory Agencies are submitted as at when due.
• Market intelligence gathering, business information sourcing, industry related research, willingness to participate in Capital Market review committees.
• Ability to travel extensively and timely to all six geo-political zone in Nigeria and designated destinations outside the  Nigeria.
• Business development through meetings, proposal, verbal pitching and effective use of presentation slides to communicate concisely the services rendered by the Company
• Negotiate fees, services rendered, terms of engagement and 3rd party vendors with prospecting clients and existing clients.
• Ensures prompt and successful execution of ongoing transactions and closure of  prospective mandates
• Ensures visibility of Company through written communication, deployed social skills, deliberate networking and sustained poised appearance always.
• Research and write on trending industry issues, public financial management, corporate financial funding structure and fiscal policy
• Any other such legitimate duties as may be required from time to time

Other Requirements
The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Minimum of 3 – 8 years’ experience in Trust business or capital market legal transactions
• Experience working in a Trust company or commercial focused law firm
• Working knowledge of Microsoft applications
• Other requisite legal qualifications will be an added advantage

The successful candidate would work in ARM Trustees (a subsidiary of the ARM Group).