Client Protection Senior Associate

About Dialectica

Dialectica is a B2B information services firm that serves the world's top business professionals, by enabling them to gather real-time information and insights from industry experts across various markets, industries, and regions.

Driven by our mission to achieve unparalleled customer recognition, we are developing the most trusted and innovative knowledge-sharing platform in the world.

Dialectica has been recognized as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times for 4 years in a row, a Top Employer for Recent Graduates by The Career Directory in Canada and a Best Workplace.

We believe in supporting our people to do their best work and grow, and building a dynamic, empowering, and respectful workplace is core to our purpose: Accelerate the shift to a prosperous society by empowering better decision-making.

With a global presence spanning 5 offices across 3 continents and a highly-trained team of over 1,000 employees, we are always looking for individuals who share our belief that our work transcends individual and organizational benefits, contributing significantly to the collective advancement of society. Our values serve as a mirror reflecting our culture and beliefs, defining not only who we are but also shaping how we work and what we stand for.

These values include:

Respect

Teamwork

Ownership

Growth Mindset

Role Overview

This is an opportunity for a motivated individual with a background in Law, Business, Compliance and/or Risk Management looking to thrive in a rapidly growing company active in the high growth information services sector.

Client Protection is the critical compliance function of Dialectica; aiming to ensure that our clients can securely, compliantly and safely access our unique knowledge sources.

The Client Protection Team manages a variety of challenging tasks, such as monitoring ongoing projects, policy drafting, training, product development and risk assessment. As a Client Protection Senior Associate (Legal & Compliance), you will facilitate client requests, update, and draft new policies, oversee their implementation, and ensure that Dialectica’s employees across all offices work on building a safe and compliant environment for our clients.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Coordinate the monitoring of active projects to flag and mitigate potential risks.
• Advise the company and implement appropriate plans for all areas of responsibilities.
• Partner with the heads of assigned accounts and corporate functions to define compliance objectives and requirements and provide compliance analysis & advice.
• Interact with clients, including in-house counsel and compliance officers and lead compliance calls.
• Identify training needs & organize the development and implementation of training programs for CST and CP team members
• Escalate compliance-related issues to Senior Management; Gather feedback from senior stakeholders and provide input taking into account business needs
• Design compliance &/or legal strategies & initiatives, creating the culture and operational model of compliance and legal (e.g. cost-cutting initiatives, reducing time for project review/response rate, reinforcing service agreements, increasing network);
• Ensure the team is operating effectively to meet compliance &/or Legal organizational objectives. Coach, inspire, and set the communication chain between management and the team.
• Drive compliance &/or Legal best practices within the team.

Requirements

• Undergraduate Degree and Master’s Degree in Business, Law, Risk Management or other related field
• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in related fields such as risk management, law or compliance an asset
• Excellent verbal and written communication and listening skills
• Proactive, combining attention to detail with a strategic thinking
• Exceptional organizational and problem solving skills
• Professional ethics and integrity with attention to detail
• Committed to improving internal quality standards
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written (additional language an asset)
• Proficient use of MS Office and Google suite

Benefits

• The opportunity to gain transferable skills including research, sales, negotiation, commercial awareness, professional communication, time and project management
• Be part of a creative, entrepreneurial a,nd fast-paced, workplace
• Learning and development programs (onboarding bootcamp, Mini-MBA program, step up programs, foreign language courses)
• Competitive compensation schemes including a monthly performance bonus
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical and dental)
• Sponsored health & well-being, team bonding activities

Not sure if you have it all? Apply anyways because at Dialectica, we don’t believe in a “one size fits all” approach to hiring. We welcome candidates with different experiences and backgrounds.