Senior Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Lead at Appzone Limited

Job Description

• Lead Qore’s regulatory affairs and compliance programme during the combined-team phase.
• Support active licensing processes, including the PSSP licence application and any related regulatory submissions, follow-ups, evidence requests or supervisory engagements.
• Maintain a regulatory intelligence function covering applicable financial services, payments, AML/CFT, data protection-adjacent, cybercrime-facing and market-entry regulatory requirements.
• Track developments from relevant regulators and authorities, including CBN, NFIU, NCCC and other applicable central banks, financial sector regulators, cybercrime-facing authorities, data protection authorities and market regulators across Qore’s operating or target jurisdictions.
• Translate regulatory developments into clear internal obligations, action points, owners and timelines.
• Maintain the regulatory filing calendar, obligation register and regulatory engagement tracker.
• Prepare, review and quality-control regulatory submissions, responses, position notes, supervisory correspondence, licence-related documentation and regulator-facing materials.
• Manage working-level regulatory correspondence and ensure material regulatory positions are escalated to the Chief Legal Officer before communication.
• Support compliance monitoring, evidence collection, policy lifecycle management, compliance issue tracking, remediation tracking and internal compliance reporting.
• Coordinate with Legal on regulatory legal questions, with Risk and Privacy on regulatory exposure, and with Corporate Governance on matters requiring Board or committee awareness.
• Support AML/CFT, sanctions, counterparty due diligence and compliance evidence coordination, working with relevant business owners and control teams.
• Maintain regulatory and compliance documentation infrastructure, including regulatory intelligence reports, obligation trackers, filing records, compliance evidence registers, policy records and supervisory engagement logs.
• Review AI-assisted regulatory and compliance outputs before they are treated as internal guidance, formal regulatory positions, compliance evidence or external communications.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where regulatory, compliance or generalist LRCC judgment is required.

Requirements

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL, or a compliance / regulatory professional with strong legal and regulatory training. LLB and BL strongly preferred.
• 6–8 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in a reputable commercial, regulatory or financial services law firm practice and an in-house / industry role within a regulated financial services institution, fintech, payments company, bank, technology company or similarly regulated business.
• Strong knowledge of the Nigerian financial services regulatory environment, especially CBN-facing obligations and licensing processes.
• Good understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions, NFIU reporting expectations, regulatory filings, supervisory engagement and compliance evidence requirements.
• Experience preparing regulatory submissions, regulator correspondence, policy documents, compliance reports or licensing materials.
• Strong generalist regulatory and compliance range, with the ability to support legal, risk, privacy and governance-adjacent matters where required.
• Strong drafting, analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, regulatory requests, filings and evidence workstreams with discipline and precision.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to coordinate business teams around regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal, regulatory and compliance environment.

Advantageous

• Experience with payments, switching, banking infrastructure, fintech infrastructure, core banking technology, lending automation or financial technology operations.
• Experience dealing with CBN, NFIU, NDPC, NCCC or equivalent regulators / authorities.
• Compliance certification such as CAMS, ICA, ACAMS, risk, AML/CFT or financial crime qualification.
• Multi-jurisdictional African regulatory experience.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• The ideal candidate is structured, calm under pressure and precise with regulatory obligations.
• They can read a circular, understand the business impact, translate it into action, and ensure the company has evidence of compliance.
• They must be comfortable engaging regulators professionally, coordinating internal teams firmly, and escalating early where a matter may affect Qore’s licence, regulatory standing, compliance posture or reputation.