Legal & Compliance Department Officer in 2024

Since 2003, our multi-national Clients (click link) engage us to set up their global subsidiaries.

We are looking for a quality candidate to join our in-house Legal & Compliance Department in our Dubai office. Your daily tasks will include, but not be limited to:

• Ensuring Healy Consultants complies with UAE and global, compliance and corporate regulations including but not limited to Anti Money Laudering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism;
• Assisting our global staff to timely and accurately complete our detailed Know your Customer procedures and Know your Suppliers procedures;
• Maintaining a database of filing deadlines for our Clients’ companies and weekly update Management to confirm all filings are timely completed;
• If a filing has been missed, informing management of the same along with recommended risk mitigation strategies;
• Assisting to prepare and file suspicious transaction reports to the authorities;
• Assisting our global staff to timely and efficiently complete multiple country engagements and the A to Z of business set up!
• Convening calls and physical meetings with our multi-national Clients, suppliers, banks and Governments;

Our ideal candidate has:

• Has a strong background in UAE and international compliance and Company Law;
• Familiar with KYC and AML databases (World Check, Dow Jones etc);
• Is solution orientated problem solver, requiring minimal supervision;
• Is able to supply quality deliverables to our management team and multi-national Clients;
• Has professional experience of 3 to 10 years, preferably with a single employer;
• Has excellent English written and oral communication skills;
• Ability to speak, read and write other languages is a plus;
• Detail-orientated and good research and planning skills;
• Has a business, compliance, economics or law degree from a quality university;
• Is disciplined with high professional standards;

What we can offer you:

• Salary range AED6,000 to AED15,000 depending on experience;
• Within 6 months to 1 year, possibility for promotion as Manager of the Department, supervising up to 4 staff;
• Learning the business set up cycle in every country on the planet, including accounting and tax and economics and legal considerations;
• A fast paced, challenging, young growing e-commerce firm with high professional standards;
• Opportunities to work with our other global offices, in Dubai, India, Malaysia, Slovakia and South Africa;

When applying:

• All applications are kept strictly confidential.
• Shortlisted candidates will be requested to undergo our recruitment process including i) submission of questionnaires ii) up to 3 employment interviews iii) collection of positive professional references
• Application outcome is usually known within 2 weeks from application submission
• Please email your CV to healy@hawksford.com

Only suitable candidates will receive a reply.