Paralegal - Trade Compliance

Position

Paralegal – Trade Compliance

Location

London

About the role

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies. This is an excellent opportunity for a forward‑thinking, innovative paralegal to work with a like‑minded team and organisation. The role will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to work on a variety of in‑house legal matters to support AVEVA’s growing business.

Responsibilities

• Administering incoming Know Your Customer flag clearance requests and overall responsibility for administering the central inbox/service desk.
• Managing the business’ expectations with regards to timelines for review and response.
• Supporting reviews of potential compliance concerns in relation to customers and seeking to resolve those where possible in line with AVEVA’s risk appetite.
• Being well‑versed in AVEVA’s screening system and managing settings and administration aspects of the system, including adding new users and managing escalation routes.
• Ensuring high standards of record‑keeping to document legal decision‑making.
• Carrying out ad‑hoc legal research to support live issues.
• Supporting updates to AVEVA’s policies and protocols as needed.
• Attending regular calls/meetings with other members of the legal team to discuss live trade compliance matters and supporting with pragmatic solutions to compliance issues.
• Reviewing extracts from customer contracts to advise on trade compliance protections and permissibility of any requested deviations in line with AVEVA’s risk appetite, policies and procedures.
• Collaborating with commercial legal, operations and sales to collect transaction‑specific detail and supporting risk assessments and due diligence reports.
• Conducting reviews of internal policies and providing legal commentary.

Qualifications

• Qualifying Law Degree or equivalent, or Paralegal Studies qualification.
• A proven track record of managing a varied workload and meeting deadlines.
• Experience in maintaining high ethical and compliance standards within an organisation.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Excellent legal research skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Willingness to learn, be flexible to changing priorities and demonstrate excellence every day in your work.
• Solid computer skills: proficient in MS Office Suite.
• Fluent in English language (written and spoken).
• Prior paralegal experience (nice to have).
• Legal Practice Course (nice to have).

Benefits

UK Benefits include: flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance programme.

Hybrid Working

We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on‑site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office‑based, while certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.

Background Check

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, and credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third‑party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

Equal Opportunity Employer

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to an inclusive culture, treating all employees with dignity and respect. We provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate.