Senior Specialist - Legal Compliance

Job Summary:

The role is to support the Legal function team in all compliance and operational matters related Mindsprints Ethical Business programme. work closely with multiple international senior stakeholders throughout the business, promoting an environment of responsible risk management that is always looking to improve. A role based in Chennai, which will be part of a small team and report to the Manager - Legal Compliance and Operations.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities will involve working on the implementation of the organisation's

A) Sanction screening program

perform sanctions screening and escalation where Risk Alerts occur

contact recommended BU contacts to understand their current new counterparty systems, who is updating, staff who deal with new counterparties and advise Legal.

identify all new entities set up in SAP each week and upload to the Ethixbase system for screening

handle all the invoices from Ethixbase and organise payment

develop a process to perform a monthly check on whether any transactions have been done with un-approved entities

train the MDM team to screen all new SAP requests for entities/persons based in Sanctioned countries (Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Myanmar and Venzuela)

to assist with the development of any systemic solution to simplify the screening process.

B) Legal e-billing system

Assist legal function setting up new legal firms in the Brightflag system

Develop reports required by Legal

Other admin as needed.

C) Other Compliance Support activities as requested, such are Legal and Compliance metrics productions

Handling bill payment

Website design and maintenance