Sahil Ali

I am a Compliance Analyst with strong analytical and creative skills, which I have developed in the course of my compliance roles, as well as my academic studies, work experience and personal / community pursuits. My outgoing character further means that I am able to work cohesively with others and thrive in team-based environments. Compliance resonates with the work I did towards my History studies at university, through its focus on critically approaching people, institutions and issues in order to provide a balanced analysis. I am now working towards becoming a qualified compliance professional and expanding my knowledge of this fascinating field.

Compliance Analyst

Walkers (06/01/25 - Present) - London

• Part of the firm's Europe Business Acceptance team. Responsible for onboarding clients for legal matters being run out of the firm's Guernsey, Jersey, London and Dublin offices.

My duties include:

1. Advising fee-earners, legal secretaries and clients of the due diligence requirements for onboarding or refreshing due diligence, using tools such as Accuity and Orbis to inform this.

2. Advising our Jersey-based International Stock Exchange (TISE) team of the due diligence requirements for issuers seeking to list securities on TISE.

3. Monitoring the onboarding process and flagging any outstanding requirements or issues fee-earners and legal secretaries.

4. Consulting our policies and relevant regulations to answer compliance questions from fee-earners, legal secretaries and clients.

5. Reviewing third party payment requests.

6. Writing detailed client and matter risk assessments that identify and mitigate relevant risks.

7. Managing a large workload of allocated matters and prioritising these based on importance, urgency and expected timeframe for submission.

8. Managing the Europe team's email inbox on one day each week.

9. Providing guidance and training to new team members.

10. Ad hoc responsibilities, such as delivering presentations, researching regulations and liaising with the conflicts and financial crime teams where necessary.

Compliance Assistant

Forbes Hare (06/11/23 - 03/01/25) - London

• Responsible for onboarding clients for legal matters involving BVI or Cayman Islands law.
• Responsible for onboarding clients for whom the BVI office or Cayman Islands office will act as Registered Office and Registered Agent.

My duties included:

1. Running conflict checks and World Checks on prospective clients, their key stakeholders and any adverse parties.
2. Advising clients, partners and other firm employees of the due diligence documents and information required for onboarding.
3. Monitoring the onboarding process and flagging any outstanding requirements or issues to clients or the firm's partners.
4. Maintaining compliance checklists and assessing client risk based on several risk factors.
5. Managing the ongoing monitoring of long-term clients through periodic compliance reviews.
6. Consulting policies and relevant regulations to answer compliance questions from the firm's partners, employees and clients.
7. Writing up memorandums on high-risk clients and setting out the ways in which risk has been mitigated.
8. Producing monthly compliance reports for the BVI office and monthly beneficial ownership reports for the Cayman Islands office.

9. Training a new Compliance Assistant in the firm's compliance policies and procedures.
10. Ad hoc responsibilities, such as assisting with AML reporting, proofreading legal documents, corporate administration and invoicing clients.

Online Tutor Through MyTutor (26/06/20 - 30/05/23)

• I tutored in History, Politics and English for school students undertaking GCSEs and A-Levels.
• The work included teaching course content and assisting students with essay & exam technique.
• I was responsible for procuring my own clients from the body of students registered with the company.

• Weekly volunteer at Penniwells Centre in 2013-2015, a horse riding school for disabled children. My role was to stay alongside children as they rode and to clean the stables.
• Elected as the Member of Youth Parliament for Hertsmere in 2015-2016. I presented research on the issue of young people's rights to members of Hertfordshire County Council and represented my borough at the Parliament's Annual Sitting.
• Elected as my University’s History President for one year in 2018. My responsibilities encompassed issues ranging from diversity & inclusion to teaching delivery. I was also in charge of teams that planned careers fayres, networking socials and a ball.
• Member of my University's Clay Pigeon Shooting Club from 2017-2021. As a shotgun licence-holder, I often led new members around the shooting grounds and instructed them.
• Vice-President of my University’s Rural Land Management Society from 2019-2021, which promoted pastoral conservation. My responsibilities encompassed planning events and liaising with local businesses on the Society's behalf. I also liaised with a charity called the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS), which the Society fundraised for.
• Writer for a world affairs journal called the St Andrews Liberty Club from 2020-2021, of which I was also the Treasurer.
• Student Advisor with BPP University's Enterprise Clinic from 2021-2023, a pro bono organisation offering small businesses free advice relating to IP, real estate and corporate law. My responsibilities included liaising with a fellow student to interview a client and research their legal problem, before sending them a letter of advice.
• Current elected member of Aldenham Parish Council, which involves communicating with residents of the ward and participating in the Council's policy decisions for the local area. As part of my role, I am the appointed liaison to the local Youth Council and I often help them to organise events and to correspond with decision-makers. I also sit on the council's Devolution Working Party and the board of trustees for the King George's Field, Radlett Trust.