Legal & Compliance Specialist

Walter Fedy is seeking a highly organized and commercially minded Legal & Compliance Specialist to strengthen our contract governance, corporate compliance, legal operations, and enterprise risk-management practices.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will serve as a central resource for contract review and governance, corporate compliance, external legal coordination, client qualification requirements, corporate records, and AI-enabled contract review. You will help ensure potential contractual, legal, regulatory, financial, insurance, operational, cybersecurity, and reputational risks are identified early, clearly documented, and directed to the appropriate decision-makers.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced legal operations, contracts, compliance, governance, or risk professional who enjoys building practical systems, improving processes, and translating complex requirements into clear business guidance.

• Lead and continuously improve Walter Fedy's contract intake, review, approval, registration, and record-retention processes.
• Conduct substantive first-level reviews of client agreements, master service agreements, amendments, consultant and subconsultant agreements, NDAs, procurement documents, and related commercial instruments.
• Identify and document non-standard or high-risk provisions involving liability, indemnification, insurance, payment, intellectual property, privacy, cybersecurity, dispute resolution, termination, and other commercial requirements.
• Prepare clear contract risk summaries, recommended actions, decision records, and approval packages.
• Coordinate reviews with Finance, Operations, project leadership, Information Technology, Human Resources, insurance advisors, executive leadership, and other subject-matter experts.
• Maintain complete records of executed agreements, approvals, obligations, exceptions, and material correspondence.

• Serve as the primary operational liaison between Walter Fedy, the CFO, and external legal counsel.
• Triage legal requests and prepare organized referral packages, background summaries, key questions, agreements, and supporting records.
• Coordinate external legal reviews, contractual interpretations, disputes, claims, investigations, corporate matters, and regulatory inquiries.
• Maintain accurate legal matter records, including status, ownership, next steps, due dates, privilege designations, external counsel involvement, spend, and outcomes.
• Support legal budgeting, invoice review, spend monitoring, and the evaluation of external counsel services.
• Protect legal privilege and confidentiality through appropriate information-handling and access practices.

• Maintain a comprehensive calendar of corporate obligations, owners, deadlines, supporting evidence, and escalation requirements.
• Monitor registrations, licences, certifications, permits, filings, professional requirements, and other organizational obligations.
• Coordinate compliance requests across corporate functions and operating teams.
• Maintain compliance dashboards, exception logs, corrective-action records, and audit-ready documentation.
• Identify compliance gaps, emerging requirements, and control failures, and coordinate timely corrective action.
• Prepare monthly compliance reporting and exception summaries for the CFO.
• Support audits, regulatory reviews, and due diligence activities by providing accurate and traceable records.

• Lead client prequalification submissions, renewals, and recurring qualification requirements.
• Manage third-party compliance, procurement, and client qualification portals.
• Coordinate responses to supplier questionnaires, qualification requests, governance certifications, and routine client inquiries.
• Coordinate vendor and subconsultant due diligence, onboarding documentation, attestations, and applicable sanctions or conflict checks.
• Maintain organized and appropriately protected legal, contract, compliance, governance, and corporate records.

• Act as the business owner and administrator for approved AI-powered contract review tools and associated workflows.
• Validate AI-generated contract reviews, risk classifications, redline recommendations, and escalation outputs.
• Establish responsible-use controls, human-validation requirements, access permissions, audit trails,…