# Paralegal, Compliance

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: Hamilton, NJ; Seattle,WA; Sandy,UT
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $53,635 - $67,065 in Hamilton, NJ; $59,945 - $74,955 in Seattle, WA
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## The Role

You'll join Carta's Compliance – Transactional Sub Division, working at the intersection of private equity deal-making and regulatory compliance. Your mission will be to conduct KYC due diligence on complex asset management entities to ensure every transaction Carta supports is clean, compliant, and defensible.

## Responsibilities

- Dig into transaction structures, working with private equity deal teams to understand deal anatomy, identify counterparties, and conduct risk analysis with a focus on AML, bribery, financial crime, and reputational exposure.

- Unpack complex entity ownership, reviewing ownership and control structures , fund vehicles, SPVs, partnerships, trusts , to build a complete and accurate picture of who sits behind every transaction.

- Drive the materials-gathering process, liaising with deal teams, legal, compliance, and counterparties to obtain the documentation needed to complete KYC reviews on time and to a high standard.

- Keep deals compliant, collaborating with clients' legal and compliance teams to ensure their transactions meet AML/CTF regulations, internal policies, and jurisdiction-specific requirements , flagging issues early so deals don't stall at closing.

## Requirements

- Early-career with strong legal or compliance foundations, having 1-2+ years of working or internship experience in a legal sector role, internship, or graduate position.

- Analytically minded and meticulous, working through complex structures carefully and methodically.

- A clear communicator in writing and in conversation, with precise and professional written work and verbal communication that gives counterparties and colleagues confidence.

- Deadline-oriented and adaptable, managing multiple priorities under pressure without losing accuracy.

- Curious about private markets, with familiarity with fund structures, offshore jurisdictions, or KYC screening tools being a meaningful advantage.

## Benefits

- Market-competitive salary

- Equity for all full-time roles

- Exceptional benefits

- Commissions plans for applicable roles

## Salary Range

The expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

- $53,635 - $67,065 in Hamilton, NJ

- $59,945 - $74,955 in Seattle, WA

## Skills

### Required
- KYC due diligence
- AML
- financial crime
- reputational exposure
- entity ownership
- regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- private markets
- fund structures
- offshore jurisdictions
- KYC screening tools

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