Area Compliance Officer at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

Job Title: Area Compliance Officer

Responsibilities

• Carry out first level support to the Branches for all regulatory and compliance activities
• Promoting positive compliance culture in branch.
• Providing compliance advisory support to business and operations within designated branches.
• Coordinating KYC/AML/CFT & Compliance training and awareness at branch level.
• Review all transaction alerts escalated by the Monitoring tool and other designated transactions on high-Risk accounts
• Investigate all unusual transactions and ensure appropriate escalation/reporting to designated regulatory agencies
• Conducting spot checks/inspections within the Branch to assess the level of voluntary compliance maintained and providing support to branches to ensure timely closure of exceptions
• Performing regular compliance risk assessment of regulatory activities and develop remediation plans
• Monitoring the implementation of branch compliance and conduct remediation plans and escalate open activities to Branch Head and Head, Compliance Monitoring and Reporting.
• Conduct periodic review of newly opened and existing accounts for compliance with regulatory requirement.
• Coordinate and review due diligence on customers with changed risk ratings as generated by Oracle KYC for branches.
• Conduct periodic branch visitation to ascertain adherence to regulatory provisions and internal policy expectations.
• Conduct Agency Banking visitation review or any review as assigned by Head of unit
• Conduct reviews on the activities of the Money Transfer Operations (FLAs)

Requirements

• First degree (or equivalent) in Law, Banking & Finance or related discipline.
• A minimum of 6 years experience working in compliance or related areas in financial services
• Experience of implementing and advising on compliance programs.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is on 2nd October, 2024. Therefore qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:

Official Job Website: https://www.firstbanknigeria.com/home/careers/