Senior Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Lead

Job title : Senior Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Lead

• 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.
• Manage working-level regulatory correspondence and ensure material regulatory positions are escalated to the Chief Legal Officer before communication.
• Support compliance monitoring, evidence collection, policy lifecycle management, compliance issue tracking, remediation tracking and internal compliance reporting.
• Coordinate with Legal on regulatory legal questions, with Risk and Privacy on regulatory exposure, and with Corporate Governance on matters requiring Board or committee awareness.
• Support AML/CFT, sanctions, counterparty due diligence and compliance evidence coordination, working with relevant business owners and control teams.
• Maintain regulatory and compliance documentation infrastructure, including regulatory intelligence reports, obligation trackers, filing records, compliance evidence registers, policy records and supervisory engagement logs.
• Review AI-assisted regulatory and compliance outputs before they are treated as internal guidance, formal regulatory positions, compliance evidence or external communications.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where regulatory, compliance or generalist LRCC judgment is required.

Requirements

• 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.
• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal, regulatory and compliance environment.

Advantageous

• Experience with payments, switching, banking infrastructure, fintech infrastructure, core banking technology, lending automation or financial technology operations.
• Experience dealing with CBN, NFIU, NDPC, NCCC or equivalent regulators / authorities.
• Compliance certification such as CAMS, ICA, ACAMS, risk, AML/CFT or financial crime qualification.
• Multi-jurisdictional African regulatory experience.

Ideal Candidate Profile

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.