Financial Crime Paralegal (12 month FTC)

The Opportunity:

Key Internal Relationships:

• Head of Financial Crime, Advisory
• Senior Financial Crime Manager
• Senior Financial Crime Advisers
• Financial Crime Analysts & Junior analysts

Key Responsibilities:

• The primary focus of this role is to carry out client due diligence on the firm's existing client base as part of a key on-going firm project. This will include:
• Being trained on anti-money laundering processes & undertaking client due diligence using a variety of different research tools;
• Researching the firm's existing client base, with a particular focus on its ownership & control structure and identifying any financial crime red flags;
• Analysing each existing client to understand any potential financial crime and/or reputational risks and assigning an appropriate risk rating;
• Administrative tasks.
• Triaging queries that come into the main Financial Crime inbox
• Supporting and participating in discrete projects as needed (e.g. assisting in the response to regulatory requests).
• Any other duties as required.

Please note, the work in this role would not constitute "qualifying work experience" for the purposes of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.

Qualifications / Skills / Experience

• Degree educated or similar level
• LPC qualified desirable
• Previous paralegal experience desirable (with a preference for experience in a City practice)