Legal Officer: Regulatory Compliance Supervisor

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.

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

Salary: N7m- N9.5m