Contract Lawyer - Financial Crime

TLT LLP; London; Remote; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

TLT LLP seeks a Contract Lawyer with over 2 years PQE specializing in financial crime, particularly sanctions. This remote role involves advising clients on compliance matters, drafting policies, and providing training, with potential for 4-6 months' engagement. Strong communication skills and the ability to manage a varied workload are essential.

Qualifications

• Over 2 years PQE experience as a lawyer.
• Strong technical knowledge on financial crime and sanctions.

Responsibilities

• Advise on financial crime issues related to new products and services.
• Draft financial crime policies and procedures.
• Provide training on financial crime issues.

Skills

Financial Crime

Sanctions

Communication

Strategic Advice

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Posted:

17.06.2025

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01.08.2025

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Job Description:

TLT is a leading adviser to the financial services industry. The firm acts for the largest UK banks and other leading firms. We have a role working directly for one of our key clients, this will be supported by our Financial Services Regulatory team and we are keen to hear from Contract Lawyers, with over 2 years PQE who have a specific background in Financial Crime.

We'd like you to have technical knowledge and experience in advising on sanctions.

This role will be on a day rate contract and is likely to be 4-6 months in length we a view to extend. This will be a remote role working via an Umbrella company. This role is based in London and there is likely to be some office attendance required.

The Role

You would be working directly with one of our key clients with the support of the Financial Services Regulatory team, key duties will include:

• You can expect to work for a leading financial services firm on strategically important matters. You should expect to work on these sorts of areas:
• Advising on financial crime issues in relation to new products and services.
• Advising on the application of the various sanctions regimes imposed by the UK government to the client and its customers.
• Drafting financial crime policies and procedures.
• Creating training decks and providing training on financial crime issues.
• Helping the client when things don’t go according to plan, including assessing financial crime issues and remediation strategies.

Your Skills and Experience

To be considered for this role, strong technical financial crime experience, specifically in relation to sanctions is essential. This can have been gained working in private practice, in house, or in a compliance role.

Ideally, you will have had experience of working on all aspects of financial crime, but it is not essential. You must have a desire to develop your skills across the entire financial crime spectrum.

You will have/be:

• Able to demonstrate high quality communication skills with the ability and confidence to engage with clients and colleagues at all levels
• Able to provide strategic advice to a variety of TLT clients with little or no supervision
• Must have experience in working in financial crime and specifically sanctions.
• Ability to juggle a busy and varied workload
• Enthusiastic & team approach to working

The Team

TLT is immersed in the financial services industry, which represents over 40% of our turnover.

The financial services industry is facing an unprecedented rate of regulatory change and our key relationships within our client base provide the opportunity to serve our clients further in this in this important and critical area.