Legal and Compliance Senior Professional

Why Join Us

At Alix Partners, you will:

• Do work that truly matters—impacting companies, clients, and communities during pivotal moments.
• Be part of a high-performing team of experts who value collaboration, integrity, and excellence.
• Grow your career in an environment that prioritizes challenging, high-value and impactful work, inclusion, and authenticity.
• Enjoy a hybrid work model designed to support flexibility, well-being, and teamwork.

At Alix Partners, we solve the most complex and critical challenges by moving quickly from analysis to action when it really matters; creating value that has a lasting impact on companies, their people, and the communities they serve. We prize the intellectually curious, the inventive, and the forward-thinking. We invite you to influence the way we work and define the way we embrace tomorrow.

Southfield, MI or London, England;
Hybrid (3 days in the office)

The Legal and Compliance Senior Professional will play an important role in maintaining the firm’s compliance framework by supporting a range of work streams associated with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and established industry best practices. The successful candidate will join a well‑established, diverse, and multijurisdictional compliance team, contributing to the continued enhancement of the firm’s governance structure and its ongoing commitment to rigorous regulatory compliance.

The Legal & Compliance Professional position is in Southfield, Michigan, or London, England, reporting to the Global Compliance Managing Counsel. Paid relocation is not available.

• Owns and maintains key compliance policies, procedures, and governance frameworks, ensuring they remain current, effective, and aligned with applicable regulatory requirements.
• Oversees compliance monitoring activities within assigned regulatory domains (e.g., AML, CTF, sanctions), identifying risks, trends, and areas requiring remediation.
• Partners cross‑functionally to reinforce a culture of integrity and accountability, ensuring that compliance expectations are clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied.
• Assist with translating complex regulatory and compliance requirements into clear, practical guidance that is easily understood by non‑specialist teams.
• Conduct due‑diligence to identify potential fraud, sanctions risks, or other compliance concerns and assist in investigating potential irregularities, non‑compliant behaviors, or process deviations, contributing to fact‑finding and remediation activities.
• Manages regulatory registers and controls, including insider lists, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and ongoing compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Maintain accurate and complete documentation of compliance activities to support audit readiness and regulatory inquiries.
• Provide concise, well‑structured summaries of compliance risks, trends, and emerging issues to senior management to support informed decision‑making.
• Support the rollout and implementation of updated compliance requirements by collaborating with relevant teams to ensure consistent understanding and application across the organization.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of training programs, awareness campaigns, and learning materials.
• Monitors legal, regulatory, and industry developments, assessing impact and integrating changes into policies, controls, and operating practices.
• Additional responsibilities as identified. This description is not designed to encompass a comprehensive listing of required activities, duties, or responsibilities.

• Bachelor’s degree highly preferred. Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Minimum three (3) years of hands‑on experience in a compliance, regulatory, or risk‑management function, with a solid track record of supporting or executing core compliance activities.
• Professional certifications (i.e. ICA, ACAMS, SCCE, or equivalent) are desirable.
• Robust understanding of regulatory frameworks, including anti‑fraud measures, anti‑market‑abuse controls, AML/CTF obligations, sanctions requirements, and related compliance standards.
• Exceptional analytical,…