Senior Advisor overseeing legal and regulatory compliance at Desjardins. Leading development projects and advising on business strategies to ensure adherence to compliance standards.
About the role
- Legal Operations Associate supporting high-profile clients across sectors in Belfast. Aiming to build strong foundations in legal and professional services for early-career talent.
Responsibilities
- Supporting a range of legal and regulatory projects across commercial, risk, and compliance-related work
- Reviewing contracts and associated documentation as part of due diligence and wider legal exercises
- Drafting, reviewing, and helping negotiate a range of commercial and banking contracts
- Checking legal documents for quality, consistency, completeness, and accuracy
- Reviewing legal and related documentation to identify key information, risks, anomalies, and points for categorisation
- Completing forms, pro forma documents, company searches, and document indexing
- Preparing and sending documentation to clients and document management systems
- Supporting post-completion activity across legal projects
- Conducting legal and commercial research to support wider client delivery
- Helping with client service and outreach activity across different regulations, document types, and workstreams
Requirements
- A strong academic background, with a minimum 2:1 in a legal subject
- A logical and analytical approach to work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisation and attention to detail
- A proactive mindset and motivation to learn
- Confidence using, or learning, new systems and IT applications
- The ability to manage tasks carefully in a fast-paced professional environment
- Previous experience in a legal services, paralegal, or corporate office environment (useful but not essential)
- Exposure to professional services or documentation-heavy work (useful but not essential)
Benefits
- Performance review every 6 months and potential salary uplift at 12 months
- Ongoing training and development support through one-to-one coaching and access to award-winning trainers
- Health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity for conversion into a permanent role at 12-24 months
- Potential for longer-term progression into legal operations, paralegal, regulatory support, risk, compliance, and other specialist pathways
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