Legal and Compliance Officer at Sophie Michaels Consulting

Description

• Our client is actively seeking a highly-skilled, motivated, and experienced Business Assurance Manager to join the dynamic team.
• The Business Assurance Manager will ensure that all the business processes in PCSL are risk-management compliant. To review all Internal processes, systems, policies and make recommendations, and ensure the risk to the business is minimized to deliver improvement.

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 issue.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years relevant experience (post-law school) preferably within the financial services environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in law.
• LLM (an advantage)
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of labour law, 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.

Skills:

• Regulatory Compliance
• Negotiation
• Attention to detail
• Communication
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Analytical
• Proofreading
• Writing