For Linklaters Service Delivery Centre Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the KYC/AML Specialist role.

Your role

This is a dynamic and varied role in a supportive and friendly global team. 

You will be part of the firm’s Legal & Risk function which has around 100 team members across our global network. The role focusses on managing the firm’s risk in relation to new business acceptance including conducting client due diligence (“CDD”) processes, risk assessments of clients and advising and collaborating with the firm’s lawyers on Financial Crime processes and controls.

Key responsibilities and challenges

• Carrying out systematic Client Due Diligence checks and Risk Assessment on new and existing clients of the firm including an appropriate assessment of reputational risks;
• liaising with the firm’s lawyers on Client Due Diligence and Risk Assessment procedures;
• responding to local regulatory audits on the firm’s Financial Crime compliance, including rectification of any quality issues;
• generating Financial Crime compliance reports;
• supporting the firm’s sanctions compliance by screening parties against various sanctions lists;
• becoming proficient in the use and development of the firm's Financial Crime record keeping systems and specifically the firm's Business Risk Assessment Tool;
• participation in ad-hoc projects in relation to the firm’s Financial Crime compliance as assigned by the Team Leader or the Manager.

Your experience and skills

• Fluent English;
• Min. 1-2 years of professional experience in AML environment, preferably in an international law firm;
• Understanding of all aspects of KYC and Compliance;
• Good command of MS Office (Excel is a must), familiar with searching databases and searching conventions;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Hard-working and flexible with a "can do" attitude;
• Team-oriented and able to promote good team spirit;
• Systematic, well-organised and attentive to detail;
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritise efficiently;
• Good at developing relationships with lawyers and staff at all levels;
• Strong written and oral communications skills and ability to communicate effectively;
• Good problem solver; able to offer knowledgeable, practical, and creative solutions.

Location

• Warsaw - hybrid working model with 2 days per week at the office

Working hours

• Shifts: 8:00 – 16:15 and 11:00 – 19:15

Key Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical care
• Free in-house fitness centre
• Life insurance
• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel
• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised transportation card
• Wide range of training opportunities

About Linklaters

Linklaters are a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people  who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.

We recognize that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.
 

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment and governance responsibility commitments
• We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work
• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect and appreciation
• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

 

Technical Skills:

Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Know Your Client (KYC)

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.