Checked 2026-10-30
KYC/AML Specialist
Linklaters · Warsaw
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Job description
For Linklaters Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the KYC / AML Specialist role.
Join our global Legal & Risk team responsible for managing new business acceptance and financial crime risk. Collaborating with lawyers and business teams worldwide, our team covers client due diligence, risk assessments and sanctions compliance.
Conducting client due diligence end-to-end processes and risk assessments for new and existing clients.
Identifying and assessing reputational and financial crime risks.
Liaising with lawyers on risk, KYC and compliance requirements.
Supporting sanctions screening and related reviews.
Preparing financial crime compliance reports and audit responses.
Using and helping to develop our business acceptance systems and tools.
Have one to two years’ experience in AML / KYC, CDD and EDD, or compliance, ideally in an international environment.
Demonstrate strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
Are proficient in MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Word) and comfortable working with databases and new systems.
Communicate confidently in English – min. B2 (Polish or another firm language is an advantage).
Manage competing priorities and deadlines in a structured, calm way and build strong working relationships.
Benefits
- Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include: • Private medical care • Free in-house fitness centre • Life insurance • Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel • Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card • Wide range of training opportunities
- Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set. We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.
- Business Partner Support, Client Due Diligence, Conflict, Commercial & Reputational Analysis, Document Management, Information Security Management, Legal & Commercial Research, Legal Advisory, Records Management, Risk Analysis This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
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