Legal Officer: Regulatory Compliance Supervisor

Worknigeria

Legal Services

Job Title: Legal Officer: Regulatory and Compliance Supervisor

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Reports to: Legal Manager

Job Summary

Our client, a leading oil gas and energy company in Africa is hiring a Legal Officer. The role of the ‘Legal Officer: Regulatory Compliance Supervisor’ is to communicate risk policies and processes, providing hands-on development of risk and compliance models involving regulatory risk, and ensuring that controls are operating effectively, in order to mitigate the occurrence of such risks.

Responsiblities:

• Ensuring that the organization complies with outside regulatory and legal requirements, as well as internal policies and bylaws.
• Working hand in hand with management and staff to identify and manage regulatory risk.
• Having appropriate disciplinary measures in place in the event of a regulatory breach to avoid a future recurrence.
• Directly responsible for procedures and controls to ensure regulatory compliance with applicable regulatory and legal requirements as well as good business practices.
• Assist in creation, adoption, and implementation of best-practice policies in Corporate Governance & Compliance.
• Establish and oversee formal risk analysis and self-assessments program for various Information Services systems and processes. Liaising with necessary persons to secure necessary permits & certifications for projects, and/or renewing those expired.
• Establish a database of the company’s Permits, and ensure they are up-to-date.
• Liaise with Internal Audit, Corporate Compliance, Office of General Counsel and Risk Management to remediate new and outstanding issues; track security-related issues in the electronic GRC system.
• Oversee company’s policies, standards, guidelines, and baselines. And ensuring these policies are reviewed and updated regularly.
• To ensure that effective and up to date business continuity plans are in place which meet expected standards.
• Maintain expertise on security trends through training, research, and development to mitigate potential security exposures.
• Maintaining open lines of communication with all relevant decision makers and stakeholders in order to keep all parties informed of regulatory changes.
Organizing regular training sessions for employees in order to efficiently communicate key regulatory changes and updates.

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Requirements :

• Experience of liasing with external parties such as auditors, government departments and service providers as well as supporting and managing corporate events
• Possess strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills with great attention to details.
• Possess deep and sound knowledge of regulatory policies & laws in the oil & gas industry, along with a good knowledge of Nigerian laws and regulations, corporate and company laws.
• Degree in Law or any other related discipline with a minimum of 3-5 years of cognate post-NYSC experience in corporate governance, law, public policy or administration with mandatory experience in upstream industry.
Relevant professional Certification would be an added advantage

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Salary: N7m- N9.5m











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