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Senior Associate - Commercial Contracts (Investment Administration)
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Are you a commercially savvy in-house lawyer with a background in financial services, asset management, private client services, or fund administration? We're offering a unique opportunity to join our legal team and play a critical role in supporting a rapidly growing international investment administration platform operating across global jurisdictions.
About the Role
Reporting to the Group General Counsel, you will lead legal support for business development, client onboarding, and operations. Your core focus will be the review, negotiation, and finalization of legal agreements with clients and partners, particularly complex Administration Services Agreements, SLAs, NDAs, and outsourcing documentation.
This is an ideal opportunity for a qualified lawyer who has worked in-house in the financial services industry or at an asset manager, a private client office, a credit provider, or within a regulated financial institution, who is ready to bring their deep understanding of contracts and financial services to a collaborative international platform.
Key Responsibilities
1. Legal Expertise and Commercial Support
- Partner with the business on structuring proposals and negotiating client contracts.
- Provide legal input on new product launches, operational processes, and business development initiatives.
- Navigate AML/KYC onboarding complexities with commercial pragmatism.
2. Contract Management and Negotiation
- Own and enhance our contract lifecycle from on-boarding through to amendments during the life of the relationship.
- Lead the negotiation of client, vendor, and outsourcing agreements.
- Track key commercial terms through structured tools (e.g. client control sheets).
Desirable Experience and Skills
We’re looking for a legal professional who brings:
- A minimum of 4–8 years of post-qualification experience in commercial legal practice.
- Demonstrated experience in drafting and negotiating contracts in financial services.
- In-house experience at an asset manager, administrator, credit institution, or private client office.
- A practical, business-oriented mindset with the ability to manage risk intelligently.
- Familiarity with fund structures, investment administration, or regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
- Exposure to offshore jurisdictions (Cayman Islands, BVI, Bahamas) would be a strong advantage, but not a prerequisite.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and the ability to deliver advice clearly and calmly.
Added value:
Experience with:
- Exposure to offshore jurisdictions (Cayman Islands, BVI, Bahamas)
- Regulatory communications and compliance reporting
- Managing legal input into cross-functional projects
- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Legal
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LEGAL & COMPLIANCE EXECUTIVE/LEGAL ADVISOR
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- Completed LLB (prerequisite)
- Minimum 3-4 years Post-Admission experience as an Attorney or Legal Advisor (not a firm prerequisite but desirable)
- Experience within compliance, RCMP updating, FAIS, and dealing with external compliance officers. Primarily in the Insurance and forex space.
- Experience with Commercial, Finance & Banking law preferred (Securities, litigation, commercial contracts, etc) would be disreable.
- Duties will include:
- Maintaining and implementing compliance standards and staff training.
- Drafting a variety of agreements. Mainly loans and related securities;
- Managing litigation and debtor recovery (rare);
- Mergers and acquisitions of companies;
- General legal compliance;
- Company secretarial duties;
- Reporting directly to various shareholders and business units
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Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance
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Job title : Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance
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Temp Legal & Compliance Practitioner
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Reference: SSC000564-AK-1
A well-established public entity is seeking to appoint a Temp Legal & Compliance Practitioner.
Qualifications and Experience:
- LLB degree.
- Minimum 5 years post-admission experience.
- Admission as an attorney or advocate of the High Court (admitted legal practitioner).
- Experience in drafting and vetting a variety of complex agreements.
- Advanced knowledge of SCM legislation, policies, and processes applicable in the public sector or entity.
- Positive attitude.
- Innovative thinking skills.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Knowledge of legal platforms.
- Compliance Management will be an added advantage.
Please note that if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application, your application was unsuccessful.
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Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance
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_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance
Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance
The Senior Analyst, AML/Sanctions Compliance plays a key supporting role within the EEMEA AML Compliance team, contributing to the effective coordination and execution of Mastercard's AML and Sanctions program. The role is responsible for monitoring the status of ongoing cases and reviews, ensuring timely follow-up on actions related to unusual activity, regional escalations, customer communications, and maintaining accurate statistics on trackers.
The Senior Analyst will assist in managing incoming and outgoing communications with customers, help track regulatory data requests, provide logistical and administrative support to the wider team whilst providing input and support on regional initiatives. The position requires a high level of organization, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced and regulated environment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Support daily AML operational reviews of activity on the Mastercard Network by coordinating follow-up actions, monitoring case progress, and ensuring alignment with global and regional AML standards.
- Track and monitor the status of unusual activity cases, escalations and follow-ups across the EEMEA region, maintaining visibility and driving timely completion of outstanding items.
- Liaise daily with internal teams and stakeholders to gather inputs and ensure smooth execution of AML compliance processes.
- Coordinate communications with customers related to AML/Sanctions documentation, clarifications and other required follow-ups, ensuring timely and professional responses.
- Maintain and update internal trackers, dashboards and documentation to support program oversight, reporting requirements, and audit readiness; contribute to ongoing data quality checks and documentation accuracy in support of monitoring activities and compliance reviews.
- Assist with the preparation of materials for internal governance processes, such as risk working groups, case reviews, and management reporting cycles.
- Support the tracking and coordination of regulatory data requests, ensuring proper documentation, follow-up, and alignment with Mastercard policies.
- Support in updating risk control platforms to reflect accurate statuses on cases, Customer changes and product updates
- Support in coordinating global due diligence exercises and tracking ongoing remedial actions
- Work system alerts driven by unusual activity, sanctions, PEPs, adverse media
- Support in key data initiatives across AML and Compliance function, through system tuning; trend analytics; data integrity checks; reporting and tracking
- Support in managing data requests from law enforcement and internal stakeholders
- Support in providing input to periodic AML Program Risk Assessment
- Support in establishing and maintaining AML Compliance Program tracking and metrics to identify trends and establish action items for program preservation and enhancements; provide regular reporting to Global VP and SVP AML, Sanctions, and Exports Control Officer
- Support management reporting, presentations, and metrics processes
Education and Required Skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required, JD or advanced degree.
- 5- 7 years of relevant experience in AML compliance, banking/financial operations or similar role within financial services or fintech.
- Strong understanding of core AML concepts, regulatory obligations, and sanctions compliance frameworks (e.g., FATF, OFAC, EU AML directives).
- Proven ability to manage task tracking, case coordination and follow-ups in a fast-paced and regulated environment.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills, with a strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Experience with suspicious activity monitoring program and case investigations.
- Comfortable liaising across departments and working collaboratively with diverse internal stakeholders.
- Proven ability to work independently in a fast-paced matrix environment or as a team player and function effectively in a dynamic, fast paced environment while handling multiple projects and consistently meeting deadlines
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to summarize updates and draft clear, professional responses.
- Fluency in English required; additional EEMEA region language skills (Arabic, Turkish, etc.) are highly desirable.
- High level of integrity, discretion, and professionalism when handling sensitive information.
List desirable or additional capabilities:
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills
- Knowledge of banking/financial operations, transaction processing and/or payments-related industry experience is a plus
- Experience working in or with high-risk jurisdictions, including exposure to complex cross-border compliance risks.
- ACAMs certification(s) preferred
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
Senior analyst, legal compliance
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