Senior Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Lead

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Lead

Job Opening ID: 306
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Support compliance monitoring, evidence collection, policy lifecycle management, compliance issue tracking, remediation tracking and internal compliance reporting.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lead Qore’s regulatory affairs and compliance programme during the combined-team phase.
• Manage working-level regulatory correspondence and ensure material regulatory positions are escalated to the Chief Legal Officer before communication.
• Support AML/CFT, sanctions, counterparty due diligence and compliance evidence coordination, working with relevant business owners and control teams.
• Translate regulatory developments into clear internal obligations, action points, owners and timelines.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where regulatory, compliance or generalist LRCC judgment is required.
• Maintain regulatory and compliance documentation infrastructure, including regulatory intelligence reports, obligation trackers, filing records, compliance evidence registers, policy records and supervisory engagement logs.
• Maintain the regulatory filing calendar, obligation register and regulatory engagement tracker.
• Review AI-assisted regulatory and compliance outputs before they are treated as internal guidance, formal regulatory positions, compliance evidence or external communications.
• Prepare, review and quality-control regulatory submissions, responses, position notes, supervisory correspondence, licence-related documentation and regulator-facing materials.
• 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.

Requirements

• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal, regulatory and compliance environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to coordinate business teams around regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Experience preparing regulatory submissions, regulator correspondence, policy documents, compliance reports or licensing materials.
• 6–8 years’ relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of the Nigerian financial services regulatory environment, especially CBN-facing obligations and licensing processes.
• Strong generalist regulatory and compliance range, with the ability to support legal, risk, privacy and governance-adjacent matters where required.
• 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 drafting, analytical and communication skills.
• Good understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions, NFIU reporting expectations, regulatory filings, supervisory engagement and compliance evidence requirements.
• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL, or a compliance / regulatory professional with strong legal and regulatory training. LLB and BL strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, regulatory requests, filings and evidence workstreams with discipline and precision.

Advantageous

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

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 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.
• The ideal candidate is structured, calm under pressure and precise with regulatory obligations.

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:

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