Chief Risk and Compliance Officer (CRACO)

Job Posting

Domestic Staff Services (DSS) offers real, professional employment for household staff — not informal or casual work. When you join DSS, you become a full employee of Strategic Outsourcing Limited (SOL), a well-established Nigerian workforce solutions company. That means a proper employment contract, a fixed and transparent salary you'll see in full before you accept, and access to pension, health insurance (HMO), and other statutory benefits.

We place skilled, trustworthy household staff — chefs, nannies, caregivers, housekeepers, drivers, and governesses— with respected homes across Lagos and Abuja. Every DSS staff member also receives professional training and certification through the DSS Training Academy, at no cost to you, and ongoing support throughout your placement.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Risk and Compliance Officer (CRACO)

Location: Lekki / Chevron Area, Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Provide unified leadership and direction to the five control functions reporting into this office: Head, Recruitment Control; Head, Post Boarding Control; Head, Financial Control; Head, Enterprise Risk Management; and the Statutory Compliance Officer.
• Set Group-wide risk appetite, control standards and compliance policy, and ensure consistent application across SOL and all OOF Group entities.
• Receive and triage escalations from all five control heads; resolve matters at this level where possible, and escalate material risk, financial exposure or reputational matters to the Chairman/CEO without delay.
• Review each control head's periodic reports — recruitment control, post-boarding control, financial control vetting/audit, the ERM audit programme, and statutory compliance — before onward reporting to the Chairman/CEO.
• Track ERM's annual ISO 9001:2015-aligned audit plan to full coverage, and track closure of audit findings across all audited control functions.
• Preserve the independence of the Statutory Compliance Officer's audit of the Enterprise Risk Management function; do not direct or influence the conduct or findings of that audit.
• Coordinate cross-functional risk and compliance matters that span more than one control function.
• Maintain a consolidated Group risk and compliance register, aggregating inputs from all five control functions.
• Chair a periodic risk and compliance review with all five control heads and issue a consolidated report to the Chairman/CEO.
• Recommend to the Chairman/CEO the appointment, performance management and resourcing of the control heads.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Law, Accounting, Risk Management, Business Administration or a related discipline; a relevant postgraduate or professional qualification (e.g. ACA/ACCA, CRMA, ICSAN, CIA) is a strong advantage.
• Minimum 10 years' progressive experience in risk management, compliance, internal audit or control functions, including leadership of multi-disciplinary control teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate diverse control functions — HR/recruitment risk, financial control, enterprise risk and statutory compliance — at Group level.
• High independence of judgement, unimpeachable personal integrity and the presence to hold a firm line with senior stakeholders.
• Strong executive reporting, stakeholder management and people-leadership skills.

Application Closing Date

4th October, 2026.