Bloomberg

Project Specialist - Legal, Compliance, and Risk

Bloomberg • $75K — $95K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required;
  • Minimum of 3 years in project coordination or management;
  • Strong project management and analytical skills;
  • Familiarity with AI tools and technologies;
  • Proficient in MS Office and project management tools.

Responsibilities

  • Provide project management support across Legal, Compliance, and Risk departments;
  • Identify and implement AI tools to enhance workflows;
  • Coordinate projects from planning to execution;
  • Anticipate issues and maintain project momentum;
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely deliverables;
  • Enhance operations and workflows efficiently;
  • Support legal, compliance, and risk documentation tasks.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and generous benefits plan;
  • Includes paid holidays and time off;
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance;
  • Short and long term disability benefits;
  • 401(k) with company match;
  • Life insurance and wellness programs;
  • Incentive compensation for eligible roles.
Full Job Description
Provide a wide range of project management, administrative and operational support for the Legal, Compliance, and Risk departments; Identify opportunities to integrate AI tools and technologies into departmental workflows, sharing best practices and helping stakeholders adopt practical use cases to enhance team efficiency and productivity. Coordinate projects from planning through execution, including tracking milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and follow-up actions; Anticipate blockers, identify interdependencies, and escalate or help resolve issues as appropriate to maintain cross-functional project momentum; Partner with stakeholders across the business to coordinate work, action deliverables, and support timely execution; Identify and implement improvements to current operations and workflows through Legal, Compliance, and Risk to enhance efficiency; Support a variety of workflows, for example: providing support in litigation and enforcement matters; gathering, organizing and analyzing data to address legal, compliance or risk matters (e.g., regulatory filings and submissions); conducting due diligence; creating, maintaining, and storing legal, compliance and risk documentation (e.g., database management, recordkeeping). You'll need to have: A Bachelor's degree; A minimum of 3 years of professional experience, including hands-on experience coordinating or managing projects with multiple stakeholders, deliverables, and deadlines; Demonstrated project management and analytical skills, including experience tracking milestones, action items, risks, and deliverables; A working knowledge of AI tools and technologies, with an eagerness to share best practices and help teams leverage them in day-to-day workflows; Excellent judgment, discretion, communication skills, and attention to detail, with the ability to handle sensitive matters confidentially. Proficiency in MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word); familiarity with project tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet); Ability to work independently and collaboratively, exercise sound judgment, and effectively manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to take on new responsibilities and develop new skills. We'd love to see: Experience supporting Legal, Compliance, or Risk functions in a project management, project coordination, or operational role; Experience supporting cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders; Experience using AI or other technology to improve processes or workflows. Does this sound like you? Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know that the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/ Salary Range = 75,000 - 95,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service (Bloomberg News), a global television network (Bloomberg Television), digital websites, a radio station (WBBR), subscription-only newsletters, and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, and Bloomberg Pursuits.
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