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Compliance and control officer
Checking that a transaction follows the rule, documenting that check and being able to prove it later: the compliance officer protects the organisation that employs them. A fast-growing function in banking, insurance and large companies.
Check, document, get it corrected
Work starts from a map: which obligations bear on the activity, which transactions engage them, which controls cover them. Then comes running the control plan — sampling, testing, recording gaps — conducted with the same method each quarter so results compare. Every anomaly leads to a dated, owned recommendation, then to verification that it was implemented. The final report is read by management and sometimes by the regulator.
- Map the obligations applicable to an activity
- Build a control plan and run it by sampling
- Document a gap and issue an actionable recommendation
- Follow remediation through to closure
Organisations subject to supervision
- Banks, microfinance institutions and payment providers
- Insurance companies and licensed intermediaries
- Mining companies bound by contractual and environmental commitments
- Subsidiaries of international groups applying head-office policy
- Organisations receiving funding subject to external audit
What the official catalogue states
These values are not estimates: they are the very definition of the programme in the filed document. Any change goes through a catalogue update, hence through a formal decision. That is what allows a figure announced today to be found unchanged on enrolment day, then on award day.
- qualification level
- 5
- months of programme
- 10
- taught hours
- 700 h
- credits
- 70
- competency blocks
- 5
Senior technician and supervisor
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Compliance and Control Officer » qualification, code TP51.
The learning the qualification attests
The qualification attests these blocks, and it names them. A recruiter reading an application can therefore know precisely what the holder demonstrated, rather than infer it from a title. The hours shown for each block complete the picture: they state how long the skill was practised with an instructor present.
- 01
The applicable regulatory framework
Sector obligations, authorities, penalties, regulatory watch — 180 taught hours.
- 02
Know your customer and vigilance
Identification, documents, beneficial owner, thresholds, alerts — 200 taught hours.
- 03
First-line control
Control plan, sampling, findings, anomaly records, follow-up — 180 taught hours.
- 04
Records and reporting
Files, archiving, indicators, escalation — 100 taught hours.
- 05
Professional conduct
Reporting without arbitrating, confidentiality, resisting commercial pressure — 40 taught hours.
Entering the control professions
Entry into this occupation runs through one or more of these programmes. They combine: a short certificate opens the door, a longer programme consolidates the position a few years later. The fees shown match the real billing unit — per year for a long programme, one-off for a short format.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Law and OHADA Compliance · Bachelor's degree | 3 years | 180 | 1800 h | 5 200 000 GNF per year |
| Certificate in OHADA Finance and Compliance · Professional certification | 6 months | 18 | 180 h | 4 200 000 GNF in total |
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