Senior Compliance Officer

Ecobank is recruiting a Senior Compliance Officer

• Minimise regulatory penalties by coordinating the timely identification, escalation, and remediation of regulatory gaps across all business units.
• Improve operational efficiency by streamlining compliance processes, reducing duplication, and enhancing timely execution of regulatory tasks and controls.
• Support business functions to meet their objectives through prompt compliance advisory, assessments, and participation in product and process reviews.
• Ensure timely response to queries or inquiries from other departments or branches
• Ensure timely response to regulatory and correspondent banking queries or inquiries
• Conduct consumer protection reviews in accordance with the Financial Consumer Protection Guidelines, ensuring fairness, transparency, and responsible customer engagement.
• Review complaints reports, websites, branch communication materials, and regulatory displays to ensure they comply with consumer protection standards.
• Promote customer protection by ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with FATCA and Common Reporting Standards.
• Provide advisory support to business units to ensure products, communications, and services reflect customer fairness and regulatory expectations.
• Lead compliance training programmes for departments and branches on key regulatory areas, including AML/CFT, Consumer Protection, FATCA/CRS, and internal compliance expectations.
• Strengthen compliance culture through monthly sensitization memos and ongoing engagement with staff at all levels.
• Track mandatory declarations such as Conflict of Interest and staff attestations to internal and industry codes of conduct to reinforce ethical behaviour and accountability.
• Monitor the Bank’s compliance with laws, regulations, directives through structured compliance reviews, branch visits, and departmental assessments.
• Track, coordinate, and ensure timely submission of all regulatory returns and reports across the Bank.
• Follow up on regulatory and audit examination findings to ensure timely closure and sustainable remediation of identified gaps.
• Track and oversee implementation of regulatory directives and internal corrective actions to maintain strong regulatory compliance.
• Maintain continuous surveillance of regulatory changes, laws, regulations, guidelines, directives—and ensure effective dissemination and implementation across relevant units.
• Maintain and update the Regulatory Universe, Compliance Risk Management Plans, and the Bank’s Obligations Register to ensure accuracy and support informed decision‑making.
• Conduct regulatory gap analyses on new or amended requirements to assess impact and guide business units in implementing necessary changes efficiently.
• Support the Financial Crime Compliance program of the Bank.
• Lead compliance training programmes for departments and branches on key regulatory areas, including AML/CFT, Consumer Protection, FATCA/CRS, and internal compliance expectations.
• Strengthen compliance culture through monthly sensitization memos and ongoing engagement with staff at all levels.Track mandatory declarations such as Conflict of Interest and staff attestations to internal and industry codes of conduct to reinforce ethical behaviour and accountability.
• Monitor the Bank’s compliance with laws, regulations, directives through structured compliance reviews, branch visits, and departmental assessments.
• Track, coordinate, and ensure timely submission of all regulatory returns and reports across the Bank.
• Follow up on regulatory and audit examination findings to ensure timely closure and sustainable remediation of identified gaps.
• Track and oversee implementation of regulatory directives and internal corrective actions to maintain strong regulatory compliance.
• Maintain continuous surveillance of regulatory changes, laws, regulations, guidelines, directives—and ensure effective dissemination and implementation across relevant units.
• Maintain and update the Regulatory Universe, Compliance Risk Management Plans, and the Bank’s Obligations Register to ensure accuracy and support informed decision‑making.
• Conduct regulatory gap analyses on new or amended requirements to assess impact and guide business units in implementing necessary changes efficiently.
• Support the Financial Crime Compliance program of the Bank.
• Lead or support key compliance projects that drive the Bank’s strategic progress, such as major regulatory reforms, digital compliance transformation, enhanced consumer protection frameworks, and automation of compliance processes.
• Strengthen governance by reviewing management committee structures and Terms of Reference (TORs) to ensure alignment with regulatory standards and Group expectations.
• Enhance regulatory engagement by coordinating high‑quality reporting to regulators and governance committees and ensuring constructive and timely liaison with regulatory bodies.
• Drive initiatives that elevate the Bank’s compliance 

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Accounting, Legal or another related field.
• Compliance certification is an added advantage
• Minimum of five years’ experience in financial services or banking with familiarity with operational, financials, quality assurance, human resource and regulations.
• Background in legal, accounting or audit
• In-depth knowledge on AML/CTF requirements/local/regional/International financial regulatory requirements.
• Ability to manage changes. 
• Must be able to respond to inquiries from regulatory agencies, courts, and external consultants
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills are a must as it is necessary to relay alternative solutions regarding compliance requirements to staff members. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills.
• Capacity to add efficiency to the organization.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a competitive environment
• Ability to communicate effectively on technical and other related issues.
• Result oriented and self – starting attitude.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing environment