Paralegal — Compliance & Partner Risk

Location: Toronto or Ottawa (Remote)

Salary + Bonus + Stock Options + Health Benefits

About Veem

Veem is a global payments platform operating in 100+ countries, helping businesses send and receive international payments faster, more cost-effectively, and compliantly. Using a multi-rail approach, we move money faster than traditional banks ever could.

Beyond serving customers directly, Veem powers payments behind the scenes for fintechs, marketplaces, payroll providers, and contractor platforms through a white-label model. Partners embed our capabilities into their own products while Veem handles the hard parts: payments orchestration, compliance, banking integrations, FX, and reliability at scale.

Role Overview

This Paralegal role sits at the heart of Veem's compliance and partner risk function, operating in parallel to the Compliance Manager. While the Compliance Manager drives strategy and oversight, this role provides the legal research, documentation, and operational backbone that makes partner onboarding and ongoing compliance actually work.

You'll be embedded in the day-to-day compliance workflow — supporting KYC validation, reviewing partner documentation, tracking regulatory requirements, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks between Sales, Legal, and Compliance. If you thrive on structure, precision, and making complex processes run smoothly, this role is built for you.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Sale & Early Risk Support Support the shift of KYC and compliance checks earlier in the partner lifecycle by preparing documentation checklists, reviewing incoming partner materials, and flagging deficiencies before they reach the onboarding stage. Verify that required licenses and regulatory approvals are in place prior to vendor onboarding, and maintain records that give the compliance team a clear view of where each partner stands.

Partner Documentation & Validation Own the partner information collection process end-to-end — tracking what's been received, what's outstanding, and following up to close gaps. Standardize intake templates and documentation requirements so the process is consistent across all partner types. Conduct initial reviews of partner-submitted materials and escalate issues to the Compliance Manager for determination.

Compliance Support in the Sales Cycle Work alongside Sales to ensure compliance checkpoints are built into the pipeline, not bolted on after the deal is done. Help document escalation paths and ownership when compliance requirements create friction during active sales engagements. Maintain clear records of compliance decisions made during the sales process for audit purposes
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Merchant Risk & Exception Tracking Assist in performing compliance checks on merchants introduced through Veem's partner network. Maintain the exceptions log — documenting when exceptions are granted, the rationale behind them, and any conditions attached. Support ongoing monitoring of merchant compliance within partner environments.

Regulatory Standards & Research Research and document the regulatory and compliance standards applicable to each partner relationship, including jurisdictional requirements, licensing obligations, and AML requirements. Support effort assessments by providing structured analysis of the compliance lift associated with onboarding specific partners — helping the team evaluate whether the risk exposure justifies the investment.

Qualifications & Experience

• Paralegal certification or equivalent legal/compliance training; bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience in a compliance, legal, AML, or risk management environment — ideally within fintech, financial services, or a regulated industry.
• Familiarity with KYC/AML processes, third-party risk management, or partner onboarding frameworks.
• Strong documentation skills — you produce clear, organized, and audit-ready records.
• Highly detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously without dropping the ball.
• Comfortable working independently in a fully remote, globally distributed environment.
• Excellent written communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience interfacing with senior leadership or external partners is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 60 days, you'll have mapped the current partner documentation process, identified gaps in intake and tracking, and begun building a more consistent, reliable system. Within six months, partner information collection will be more standardized, the exceptions log will be properly maintained, and the compliance team will have better visibility into where every partner and merchant stands at any given time. You'll be a trusted operational anchor for a function that's growing in complexity and importance.

Why Veem?

Veem is a high-impact environment where compliance isn't an afterthought — it's core to how we grow. You'll work alongside experienced compliance and legal professionals, have real visibility into a global payments operation, and play a meaningful role in how Veem scales its partner ecosystem responsibly. The work is substantive, the team is collaborative, and the remote culture is built to support you wherever you are.

Veem is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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