Legal Officer


  2026-07-01
  Remote, Nigeria
  3–5
  Information Technology

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Officer

Job Opening ID: 146
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

  • Conduct legal research and prepare clear research notes, summaries, draft positions and advisory support materials for Senior Legal Lead review.
  • Support regulatory-adjacent legal matters, Board-facing legal preparation, governance-adjacent legal work and transaction documentation as directed by the Senior Legal Lead.
  • Coordinate execution logistics for agreements moving to signature, including signature block checks, document collation, filing and tracker updates.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Review counterparty mark-ups, flag deviations from standard positions and prepare comparison notes for Senior Legal Lead review.
  • 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.
  • Prepare first drafts of routine legal documents, correspondence, notices, amendments, consents, contract summaries and internal legal notes.
  • Support contract lifecycle management for assigned matters, including intake, review, execution coordination, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and obligation monitoring.
  • Maintain documentation standards, template currency, precedent library records, clause libraries and legal repository hygiene.

Requirements

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

Advantageous:

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

Ideal Candidate Profile:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The ideal candidate is a disciplined mid-level lawyer who wants to grow into a strong commercial legal adviser.

Benefits
Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes:

  • Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
  • Paid Lunch (i.e., if working onsite)
  • Lifelong Learnings
  • Flexible work option (i.e., Remote)

Application Deadline: 31st August, 2026.


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