Legal and Compliance Officer at Princeps Credit Systems Limited

Job role

We are actively seeking a highly-skilled, motivated, and experienced Legal and Compliance Officer to join our dynamic team. This position plays a crucial role in serving as in-house legal counsel while also overseeing and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations across our business units.

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing, vetting, negotiating, and solidifying agreements, contracts, and other legal documents to ensure the company's full legal rights are protected.
• Offer legal advice and legal advisory services to the Management team. 
• Interpret legal documents and advise thereon.
• Handle court cases on behalf of the company and its subsidiaries with other lawyers
• Advise on tax laws compliance as well as compliance to state regulations.
• Advise on changes to Nigerian legislation relevant to the company and subsidiaries’ operations.
• Preparing documentation for litigation-related cases, filing and monitoring of lawsuits, attending court to assist external counsel with the presentation of cases, issuing writs and tasking summons, and other legal and administrative procedures as assigned.
• Review, markup/draft (from scratch), negotiate, and close commercial/procurement contracts, agreements, and SLAs including payment terms, general terms, and conditions.
• Formulate SOPs for various legal operations and give business information on day-to-day legal issues

Qualifications

• 5-7 years relevant experience preferably within the financial services environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in law.
• LLM (an advantage)
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law, compliance and its procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies.
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity.
• Must be a Chartered Secretary.
• Highly conversant with NAICOM, SEC, NSE, CAC, NFIU, IFRS, and other regulatory Directives and Guidelines.