Associate

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Advise on sanctions risks involving clients, beneficial owners, counterparties, transactions, and jurisdictions.
• Assess complex ownership and control structures, designated-person exposure, jurisdictional risk, and sanctions restrictions.
• Apply relevant international and local sanctions regimes to business scenarios; review and escalate complex alerts with evidence-based recommendations.
• Conduct OSINT research, sanctions case reviews, and regulatory horizon scanning; support onboarding, periodic-review, and trigger-event assessments.
• Prepare analysis, risk assessments, and escalation papers for senior stakeholders.
• Support sanctions policies, procedures, training, control testing, audits, and risk-management improvements.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and business teams on sanctions and financial crime matters.

Required experience and capabilities

• At least five years of relevant experience in sanctions, sanctions risk, financial crime advisory, compliance risk, trade controls, or a related discipline.
• Significant hands-on sanctions risk assessment and advisory experience; screening or alert-clearing experience alone is not sufficient.
• Strong practical knowledge of US/OFAC, UK/OFSI, EU, and UN sanctions regimes.
• Experience analysing complex ownership structures, designated-person exposure, jurisdictional risk, and sanctions restrictions.
• Ability to research regulations and provide clear, commercially practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, including confidence advising senior stakeholders.

Advantageous background

• Experience in financial services, professional services, legal services, fiduciary, or fund administration is advantageous.
• ICA, sanctions, legal, or equivalent professional qualifications are a plus.