Paralegal Team Lead, Compliance

Dentons is designed to be different. Our firm leads the way in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. We challenge the status quo and deliver consistent results as well as uncompromising quality and value to our clients. Our global presence is renowned as a firm with over 21,000 individuals in more than 200 offices serving clients across 80+ countries.  

Dentons Canada is committed to its people and communities. We are consistently recognized as an employer of choice having received numerous awards including being selected as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2026); Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2026), and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers (2026).

This role is an opportunity for you to join Canada's global law firm, a firm that offers opportunities to build your career while growing your skills and deepening your expertise.

This POSITION SUMMARY

Dentons is seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Corporate Paralegal to join our Vancouver office as a Compliance Team Lead. Reporting to the Corporate Services Supervisor, the Compliance Team Lead serves as a senior compliance resource, coordinating workflow, supporting the day-to-day delivery of compliance services, and promoting operational excellence across the compliance function. Key responsibilities include:

• Provide ongoing guidance, knowledge sharing, and technical support to compliance team members on compliance procedures, best practices, and legislative requirements;
• Serve as the primary resource for compliance-related questions and procedural guidance within the compliance team.
• Monitor and triage compliance-related requests and serve as the primary contact for lawyers and clients on day-to-day compliance matters.
• Coordinate compliance workflow, prioritize monthly deadlines, and distribute workload to support the timely completion of compliance obligations.
• Prepare and provide monthly compliance status reports to the Supervisor, highlighting workload volumes, outstanding matters, and potential risks.
• Maintain compliance control lists and allocate work assignments to support efficient workflow management.
• Identify and escalate complex, sensitive, or high-risk compliance matters to the Supervisor, as appropriate.
• Facilitate regular compliance team meetings to review workflow, monitor deadlines, and identify workload priorities and resource needs.
• Conduct monthly compliance database audits, including reviewing data integrity ensuring key compliance dates and records are accurate and up to date.
• Meet regularly with the Supervisor to provide workflow updates and identify opportunities to improve compliance procedures, data quality, and operational efficiencies.
• Prepare and file compliance documents (including annual reports and resolutions) for British Columbia and Federal entities and monitor applicable deadlines.
• Prepare and coordinate extra-provincial annual reports for all Canadian jurisdictions, liaising with agents and monitor applicable deadlines.
• Prepare and/or revise any documents related to changes to annual maintenance documents, such as changes of officers, directors and principal addresses, including change of outgoing registered and records office.
• Process Transparency Register annual review confirmations.
• Process electronic minute book filing for compliance documents and various other executed documents.
• Process Notices of Commencement of Dissolution received from BC Registries.
• Post time daily to maintain accurate time dockets.

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years’ experience working within the Corporate Records practice area preparing annual compliance packages is required
• Experience providing technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and onboarding support to team members.
• Paralegal diploma an asset
• Knowledge of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) and Canada Business Corporations Act
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills; able to manage competing deadlines
• Demonstrate excellence in grammar, proofreading and meticulous attention to detail across all deliverables
• Professional and courteous communication with clients, and internal teams
• Demonstrate reliability, confidentiality, and commitment to service excellence
• Ability to work collaboratively, adapt to changing priorities, and exercise sound judgment under pressure
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; ability to format complex legal documents, manage data

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