Legal Associate

Key responsibilities

• Design, draft, and update client AML and CTF policies, procedures, and internal controls
  

• Lead client KYC and KYB reviews for onboarding and periodic refresh. Perform enhanced due diligence for higher risk clients, politically exposed persons, and sanctions exposure
  

• Build and maintain client risk assessments including enterprise -wide and customer risk models. Prepare heat maps, scoring logic, and risk registers
  

• Review client screening alerts and investigations. Prepare well -evidenced case files and recommend dispositions with clear rationales
  

• Support transaction monitoring setup and tuning. Document scenarios, thresholds, and change -control notes for audit trails
  

• Prepare suspicious transaction or activity reports for clients. File on goAML or equivalent portals and maintain evidence packs
  

• Track legal and regulatory changes across relevant jurisdictions. Issue client impact assessments and implementation plans
  

• Prepare Board and senior management reports for clients with meaningful metrics and commentary
  

• Support client internal and external audits. Close findings to agreed timelines and provide remediation plans
  

• Draft and review AML clauses in client and vendor contracts with attention to data protection and confidentiality
  

• Deliver client training for frontline, operations, and senior management
  

• Liaise with regulators and law enforcement on client matters under the guidance of the Engagement Lead
  

• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, and project plans. Manage day -to -day delivery, timelines, and stakeholder communication
  

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