SENIOR REGULATORY AFFAIRS & COMPLIANCE LEAD AT APPZONE LIMITED | REGULATORY AFFAIRS & COMPLIANCE JOBS IN LAGOS

About Company:

Appzone Limited is Africa's leading provider of Integrated Banking and Payment software platforms and incidentally creator of BankOne; the world's leading cloud infrastructure for Banking and Payment processing targeted at Small and Medium financial Institutions.

Job Description:

The ideal candidate is structured, calm under pressure and precise with regulatory obligations. They can read a circular, understand the business impact, translate it into action, and ensure the company has evidence of compliance. They must be comfortable engaging regulators professionally, coordinating internal teams firmly, and escalating early where a matter may affect Qore’s licence, regulatory standing, compliance posture or reputation.

Requirements:

• Lead Qore’s regulatory affairs and compliance programme during the combined-team phase.
• Support active licensing processes, including the PSSP licence application and any related regulatory submissions, follow-ups, evidence requests or supervisory engagements.
• Maintain a regulatory intelligence function covering applicable financial services, payments, AML/CFT, data protection-adjacent, cybercrime-facing and market-entry regulatory requirements.
• Track developments from relevant regulators and authorities, including CBN, NFIU, NCCC and other applicable central banks, financial sector regulators, cybercrime-facing authorities, data protection authorities and market regulators across Qore’s operating or target jurisdictions.
• Translate regulatory developments into clear internal obligations, action points, owners and timelines.
• Maintain the regulatory filing calendar, obligation register and regulatory engagement tracker.
• Prepare, review and quality-control regulatory submissions, responses, position notes, supervisory correspondence, licence-related documentation and regulator-facing materials.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL, or a compliance / regulatory professional with strong legal and regulatory training. LLB and BL strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 6–8 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience in a reputable commercial, regulatory or financial services law firm practice and an in-house / industry role within a regulated financial services institution, fintech, payments company, bank, technology company or similarly regulated business.
• Strong knowledge of the Nigerian financial services regulatory environment, especially CBN-facing obligations and licensing processes.
• Good understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions, NFIU reporting expectations, regulatory filings, supervisory engagement and compliance evidence requirements.
• Experience preparing regulatory submissions, regulator correspondence, policy documents, compliance reports or licensing materials.
• Strong generalist regulatory and compliance range, with the ability to support legal, risk, privacy and governance-adjacent matters where required.
• Strong drafting, analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, regulatory requests, filings and evidence workstreams with discipline and precision.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to coordinate business teams around regulatory and compliance requirements.

Salary

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