Compliance Officer at Greenwich Registrars & Data Solutions

Job Objective

• Ensuring strict compliance with Regulatory requirements
• Supervising and ensuring accurate resolution and responses to legal enquiries, shareholder complaints and regulators’ queries are given.
• Creating and managing responses to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
• Resolving employee questions and queries about legal compliance

Responsibilities

• Providing support to the Chief Compliance Officer in ensuring compliance with all company policies for both internal and external operations.
• Monitoring rendition of all returns by the Finance, Internal Control and Business
• Development teams including return monies, tax returns, monthly statements to SEC and half yearly returns to client companies.
• Monitoring internal policies and recommending necessary policies and policy review in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring all correspondences and inquiries from regulatory authorities, and law enforcement agencies, individuals, corporate bodies are attended to in compliance with regulatory standards.
• Ensuring all fillings/returns (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual) in respect of the Company are up to date
• Liaising with regulatory authorities, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Police to resolve all Compliance-related issues.
• Rendering of all weekly, quarterly and annual returns to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit and other regulatory authorities including AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and CFT (Counter-Terrorism Financing).
• Identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, and work with Internal Control to identify and drive corrective action plans for the resolution of problematic issues.
• Training employees on compliance requirements towards maintaining a compliance culture within the organisation.
• Providing support to the internal departments by following up with relevant parties in resolving exceptions raised in Regulatory audits.
• Ensuring shareholders’ complaints are adequately treated to avoid regulatory sanctions.
• Reviewing all litigation matters to ensure compliance with internal and external policies and regulatory standards.
• Drafting and/or reviewing all Agreements to ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards

As Data Protection Officer:

• Working with the Data Protection Consultant Organization (DPCO) Andersen Tax LP for the conduct of Data Privacy and Protection Audit/annual filing in line with the requirements of the NDPB.
• Working and developing internal procedures to ensure that the company records no regulatory infractions.
• Creating general awareness/training on the importance of Data Privacy and Compliance

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B); Barrister at Law (B.L.) Call to the Nigerian Bar
• Post graduate degree and/or relevant professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 8 years work experience and legal/company secretariat experience.
• Experience in the financial services industry and a Plc. is preferable.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Exceptional understanding of regulatory frameworks and guidelines.