Manager, Regulatory Compliance

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manager, Regulatory Compliance

Requisition ID: 1696384
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

The opportunity

• You will be part of a team who identifies planning opportunities to help clients fulfill compliance responsibilities, avoid penalties as well as minimize tax burdens.
• This position offers excellent opportunities for teaming, leadership, and career advancement to the right candidate.
• As a Regulatory Manager, you will be a part of our Tax Practice.

Your key responsibilities

• As a manager, you will advise on multiple and challenging Regulatory and tax advisory engagements and to contribute to the delivery of innovative tax and regulatory planning ideas for our diverse clients.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's Degree in Law (at least a second-class upper division)
• Excellent managerial, organizational and written communication skills.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant regulatory compliance experience or equivalent experience in business or industry

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Mature, proactive, committed, highly motivated and driven team player
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, professional services environment

Skills and attributes for success:

• Undertake legal and regulatory research and assess and evaluate the impact of changes in applicable legislation and best international practices
• Suggesting practical and innovative solutions to clients and reaching relevant conclusions.
• Manage clients’ compliance obligations.
• Participating and assisting in reaching Client Service Teams' goals.
• Collaborating on business development initiatives in specific industries targeting practice growth
• Leading development of recommendations and solution implementation plans and using professional judgment in making informed decisions on complex issues.
• Effectively applying indirect tax knowledge to situations affecting clients.
• Coordinate a program of training and capacity-building activities for the team covering all key areas of compliance and regulatory developments
• Maintaining effective client relationships.
• Drafting tax alerts about changes to legislation and regulations or following policy statements or judgements
• Support clients to obtain necessary licenses, liaise with regulators, and ensure policy updates.
• Support the business to identify and reach out to potential clients
• Identifying opportunities to sell refund and recovery services.
• Support clients in regulatory compliance, including the timely preparation and submission of regulatory filings such as annual returns, or a timely response to regulatory circulars
• Identify, understand, and escalate clients’ compliance risk events/issues in a timely manner and focus on fixing the root causes of the issues. Monitor the implementation status of agreed-upon action points aimed at driving compliance.

What we look for:

• We're interested in strong team players who support their colleagues in reaching their goals while also considering their own workload and development. We're looking for people with a genuine passion for regulatory compliance skills and are inspired to help the world's leading multinational organizations meet complex tax and regulatory obligations around the world. If you have the confidence to speak up and influence a team that affects big businesses worldwide, this role is for you.