Cadence’s Legal Department is looking for a talented paralegal to join its Government and Trade Compliance team. If you have amazing business acumen, operational systems and technology sensibilities, organizational and analytical skills, have a keen interest in global trade, love international business and compliance, and want to work for one of Fortune’s 100 Best Places to Work For, we want to hear from you!
You’ll be a key member of a team ensuring Cadence conducts business globally in accordance with the highest standards. In this role, you’ll be responsible for supporting cross-functional teams; liaising with our business and operational teams; reconciling and harmonizing trade issues; and helping shape policies and processes to help us scale and enhance our compliance program.
Job Responsibilities:
- Management of diligence reviews for end uses/end users, along with prohibited and restricted party screenings
- Liaison on screening issues to ensure continuous improvement of performance with periodic audits of screening results
- Perform research and conduct diligence on processes and parties
- Expert on screening systems – manages settings and algorithms to common standards across platforms
- Own, manage and continually enhance standard work and desk procedures for screening
- Actively and proactively manage relationships with compliance providers to ensure system optimization
- Business requirements lead for screening systems solutions to ensure change management success
- Coordinating with company screening leads to ensure harmonization of efforts
- Ensure compliance with documentation and recordkeeping requirements
- Compile, submit, and track required government filings, notifications, updates or other forms of submissions
- Produce high-quality deliverables efficiently, following Cadence’s best practices, templates and guidelines
- Apply sound judgment and comply with Cadence policies on handling sensitive and confidential data
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in compliance or controls in a cross-functional team environment to develop and drive processes that enhance compliance
- Demonstrated success independently managing workload and priorities with limited oversight
- Demonstrated ability to proactively troubleshoot issues and exercise discretion and engage management support to resolve an issue
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a high degree of attention to detail
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Familiarity with trade compliance issues
- Paralegal Certification
- Trade Compliance Certification
- Proficient in Microsoft products – an Excel guru; Power Point wiz and efficient with Teams
- Experience working with a geographically dispersed team
- Fluent in Mandarin Chinese a plus.
Traits the ideal candidate has:
- Optimistic
- Problem Solver
- Agile and flexible
- Relationship-building skills and high EQ
- Collaborative
- Great sense of humor
