Head, Compliance at ARM Hold Co.

Job Description

• “If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, come work at ARM HoldCo” as the Head, Compliance for the group.
• You will be responsible for leading the Compliance function in ensuring compliance with the business regulatory and statutory compliance requirements, as well as internal corporate governance guidelines and framework.
• You will also coordinate and lead the compliance functions across the group.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring compliance with all extant regulatory directives, rules, circulars, as well as legislations, applicable to business, including working with various teams where such compliance activities are to be carried out teams other than the Compliance team.
• Regulatory Scanning: Scanning the regulatory and operating environment for new regulatory developments, newly exposed rules and draft laws that will be applicable to the business, to ensure proactive dissemination to Management and incorporation into the compliance programme.
• Regulatory Liaison: Responding to correspondences and inquiries from regulatory authorities, and government agencies, as well as proactively liaising with them to resolve all Compliance-related issues, and coordinating all regulatory supervisory examinations and review.
• Rendition of Returns: Rendition of all periodic returns to SEC, NGX, NFIU and other applicable regulatory agencies.
• Compliance Monitoring: Support the implementation, continuous improvement and monitoring of AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism) programmes across the organizations, as well as compliance with all extant tax laws and statutory remittances.
• Threat Assessment: Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, as well as drive development and implementation of corrective action plans for the resolution of problematic issues.
• Regulatory Approvals and Clearances: Processing of all regulatory approvals and notifications for employees, directors, products and all other applicable initiatives, and including clearances from applicable government agencies.
• Exception Management: Provide support to the team by following up with relevant parties in resolving exceptions raised in Regulators’ audits.
• Employees’ Training: Ensuring compliance with the mandatory annual AML/CFT training for all categories of employees, and coordinate all activities to achieve full compliance.
• Compliance Coordination: Providing leadership over the compliance functions of ARM Securities Limited and ARM Trustees Limited, including coordinating all compliance activities across the two businesses.
• Stakeholder Management: Proactively seek to build mutually beneficial and trusting relationships with both internal stakeholders (subsidiaries and shared service functions), and external stakeholders (i.e., regulators), with the aim of delivering operational impact.

Key Competencies:

• Behavioural
• Analytical Thinking
• Customer Service Orientation
• Entrepreneurship
• Flexibility
• Holding People Accountable
• Intercultural Competence
• Leading and Developing Others
• Professional Confidence
• Relationship Building for Influence
• Self-Awareness
• Team Working
• Working Strategically
• Communicating Effectively
• Process Management
• Market and Regulatory Environment

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@arm.com.ng using the Job Title as the subject of the email.