Legal Officer

Job title : Legal Officer

Job Description

• Review, draft and support negotiation of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including platform agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, data processing agreements, service agreements, standard terms and other commercial documents.
• Conduct legal research and prepare clear research notes, summaries, draft positions and advisory support materials for Senior Legal Lead review.
• Support contract lifecycle management for assigned matters, including intake, review, execution coordination, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and obligation monitoring.
• Review counterparty mark-ups, flag deviations from standard positions and prepare comparison notes for Senior Legal Lead review.
• Prepare first drafts of routine legal documents, correspondence, notices, amendments, consents, contract summaries and internal legal notes.
• Support regulatory-adjacent legal matters, Board-facing legal preparation, governance-adjacent legal work and transaction documentation as directed by the Senior Legal Lead.
• Maintain documentation standards, template currency, precedent library records, clause libraries and legal repository hygiene.
• Coordinate execution logistics for agreements moving to signature, including signature block checks, document collation, filing and tracker updates.
• Work with LRCC Operations & Controls to ensure assigned legal matters are properly logged, tracked and updated in the task management system.
• Review AI-assisted legal outputs before escalating them to the Senior Legal Lead or relying on them for research, drafting or contract review support.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where legal execution support or generalist LRCC exposure is required.

Requirements

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL.
• 3–5 years’ post-call experience.
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role, preferably within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Nigerian commercial law, contract fundamentals, corporate law basics and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
• Good contract drafting, review and issue-spotting skills.
• Strong legal research ability and clear legal writing.
• Good generalist legal exposure across contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance support, compliance-adjacent matters, data protection clauses and legal operations.
• Strong organisation, matter tracking and deadline management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assigned matters at once and escalate early where senior legal judgment is required.
• Attention to detail, sound judgment and willingness to work within defined templates, playbooks, trackers and approval gates.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tools responsibly as part of legal research, drafting, document review and matter tracking.

Advantageous:

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, SaaS, lending, financial services or technology contracting.
• Experience supporting contract repositories, legal operations, task management systems or document automation.
• Exposure to data protection, AML/KYC, regulatory filings or Board-facing documentation.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• The ideal candidate is a disciplined mid-level lawyer who wants to grow into a strong commercial legal adviser.
• They are careful with drafting, reliable with deadlines, honest about escalation, and comfortable working in a structured legal team where quality, documentation and speed all matter.
• They should be able to support the Senior Legal Lead without needing every instruction broken down, while still knowing when a matter is above their authority and must be escalated.