Legal & Compliance Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Analyze work products related to legal, regulatory, and compliance issues.

• Evaluate whether conclusions are accurate, thorough, and sufficiently substantiated.

• Detect legal or regulatory deficiencies, unsupported assumptions, and inconsistencies in reasoning.

• Examine recommendations for feasibility, proportionality, and professional integrity.

• Review materials pertaining to regulatory obligations, policies, and internal standards.

• Determine if applicable regulations are interpreted and applied correctly.

• Assess risk evaluations, governance frameworks, and compliance controls.

• Review processes for accountability, escalation, monitoring, and documentation.

• Evaluate risk mitigation strategies and identify deficiencies in control design, ownership, or execution.

• Analyze legal memoranda, policies, procedures, compliance reports, and related documentation.

• Assess the quality of drafting, internal consistency, clarity, omissions, contradictory statements, and unsupported conclusions.

• Review documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for accuracy and completeness.

• Evaluate executive presentations for clarity, logical progression, and usefulness in decision-making.

• Identify factual, analytical, aesthetic, and formatting issues.

• Assess whether charts, tables, and supporting materials accurately reflect underlying analyses.

• Evaluate assigned outputs against domain-specific quality standards.

• Provide clear, structured written feedback detailing identified strengths and weaknesses.

• Maintain consistent application of evaluation criteria across various work products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of relevant professional experience in legal, compliance, regulatory affairs, corporate law, in-house counsel, risk management, or a closely related area.

• Strong practical knowledge of legal and compliance workflows.

• Experience in reviewing policies, regulatory standards, governance frameworks, or legal deliverables.

• Ability to identify significant legal or compliance deficiencies, unsupported conclusions, and inadequate risk assessments.

• Experience collaborating across legal, compliance, risk, regulatory, or business functions is highly regarded.

• Highly skilled in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint / Google Slides.

• Strong analytical and spreadsheet skills.

• Native or professional fluency in English.

• Exceptional written communication skills with the ability to provide precise, structured feedback.

• Strong attention to legal, regulatory, analytical, and presentation details.

• A Master's degree or higher from a recognized institution is advantageous.

• Must complete work without utilizing confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party.

• H1-B and STEM OPT support is not available for this role.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible scheduling contingent on project requirements.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Part-time independent contractor engagement.

• Project durations may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance.