Job title: Legal and Compliance Officer

Job summary:

The Legal and Compliance Officer has the responsibility of monitoring all legal affairs within the organization. He/she will be responsible for designing, evaluating, supporting, and influencing a culture of compliance throughout the organization, as well as assisting in the management and execution of an efficient compliance monitoring program.

Legal and Compliance Officer Job Duties:

• Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken. 
• Provide and interpret legal information, conduct training and circulate appropriate legal requirements to staff.
• Provide legal and risk management advice to the management.
• Review, draft and ensure that contracts, agreements and internal policies are complying with all statutory and legal requirements.
• Act as a focal point for contact with regulators and other industry authorities.
• Ensure the company is being run legally and ethically, complying with all CBB regulations that apply to the industry.
• Formulate compliance check-lists
• Continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations and advise management accordingly.
• Conduct due diligence reviews.
• Report results of reviews of AML risk assessments and monitor remedial proceedings.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve all activities that are deemed noncompliant.
• Review and ensure all marketing campaign complying with all CBB regulations
• Plan AML training sessions.
• Oversee that the board follows the correct procedures and that the board complies with its obligations under the company law and the company’s MOA.
• Assist the chairman of the board in organizing the board’s activities (including providing information, preparing an agenda, reporting of meetings, evaluations and training programs as well as arranging, recording and following up on the actions, decisions and meetings of the Board and of the shareholders (both at annual and extraordinary meetings).

Basic Areas of Knowledge and Skills

• Degree in a law or business discipline.
• ICA Diploma in GRC and/or ACAMS certification
• Experience developing and implementing compliance programs
• Team player with the ability to work unsupervised
• Exceptional analytical and investigative skills
• Strong project management skills
• Willingness to work on various compliance issues
• Must be able to adapt to working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional presentation skills
• Strong organization skills and attention to details        
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)

Experience

3-5 years of working experience in audit, legal, compliance and/or financial sector.