Risk and Compliance Officer

Job title : Risk and Compliance Officer jobs in Lagos Job Location : Lagos Deadline : July 03, 2024 Quick Recommended Links

​​​​​​​ Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all the essential and important guidelines are put in proper place accurately adhering to industry rules and regulations
• Conduct internal audits and reviews at regular intervals to ensure that compliance procedures are regularly followed.
• Conduct environmental audits adhering to environmental standards
• Assist in ensuring that all the employees are thoroughly updated about the organization’s policies, regulations, and processes and ensure all tasks are done with higher accuracy.
• Assist in the organization of workshops and training sessions to educate and update employees
• on the organization’s compliance policies, regulations, and processes
• Resolve employee issues about the legal risk compliances
• Revise rules, reports, and procedures at regular intervals to recognize the risks and develop risk management strategies.
• Maintain records of compliance practices
• Establish relationships with important external bodies and stay up-to-date on the changes in industry requirements and all relevant regulations
• Prepare risk management reports for top-level management based on internal reviews
• Follow up on compliance issues that require investigation
• Evaluate compliance systems and ensuring adequate software is in place and give reports on compliance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, economics or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in risk management or compliance, including exposure to technology industry, financial services, and/or project management
• Must have taken and passed ICAN Exam.
• Prior experience in a financial service industry
• Industry experience with governance and compliance risk management
• Audit or consulting experience in identifying risk and controls across business processes
• Risk assessment capabilities: Knowledge of major steps involved in risk management and ability to implement them
• Comprehensive knowledge about security policies such as ISO standards, control, and abuse policies, regulations, monitoring, evaluation, review, and report associated with auditing
• Strong knowledge of industry processes and regulations
• Knowledge of business and IT
• Compliance certifications will be considered a plus [CCEP, CISSP, CRCM]

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Risk and Compliance Officer in Lagos