Legal & Compliance Specialist (Tel Aviv)
Mesh Payments
Legal
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Apr 30, 2025
We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Legal & Compliance Specialist who’s eager to take their first steps into the world of legal and compliance. This is a great opportunity to join a unique, cross-functional team that operates at the intersection of legal, compliance, and customer experience.
Within the position’s responsibilities are playing a key role in supporting onboarding activities, handling compliance-related operational and administrative processes, collaborating with various internal teams, and helping ensure a smooth and compliant onboarding flow while also supporting the company’s overall regulatory compliance and maintaining good customer relationships.
In this position, you will:
- Serving as a point of contact for customers during the onboarding process—collecting KYB information, supporting and addressing commercial, legal, and other onboarding-related matters.
- Coordinate the review and approval of legal documents with the internal legal team and external consultants.
- Support the KYB process end-to-end—collecting customer data, performing internal compliance checks and validations, raising red flags when needed, and contributing to accounts approval.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Customer Management, and Compliance teams to ensure a smooth and compliant onboarding experience and effective handoff, while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Support various compliance-related tasks and operational processes in collaboration with the Compliance & Risk team.
Requirements
- Background in one or more of the following: legal, compliance, or regulatory frameworks is a must (e.g. law degree, legal assistant, paralegal, legal ops, AML/KYB analyst, or regulatory affairs).
- Strong prioritization and time-management skills—ability to juggle multiple tasks, adapt to shifting priorities, and make sound decisions under pressure.
- Detail-oriented, hands-on, and solutions-focused.
- Assertive, communicative, and people-oriented, with a proactive and out-of-the-box approach.
- A collaborative team player who values cross-functional cooperation and knowledge sharing.
- Excellent communication skills in English—both verbal and written.
- Advantage: 1–2 years of experience in a customer-facing role.
- Advantage: Familiarity with KYB, business underwriting, and Compliance processes.