Companies hiring legal, compliance & risk in Canada
As of 4 November 2026, 760 companies are hiring legal, compliance & risk in Canada, with 2,389 open roles; 1,463 opened in the last 30 days and Toronto has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Top city
- Toronto · 378 roles
- Largest role family
- lawyers and legal counsel · 33%
- Leadership roles (director+)
- 168 · 115 companies
- Remote share, last 30 days
- 33%
- Postings with a salary
- 3% · 41 companies
- Most-named tool
- Power BI · 51 companies
Most new legal, compliance & risk roles, last 30 days
Companies with the most new postings in the last 30 days; job boards and directories left out. Headquartered in Canada. Open legal, compliance & risk roles and all open roles per company.
| Company | Size | new, 30 d | open legal, compliance & risk | all open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group)Retail & commercial banks | 10,001+ employees | 60 | 81 | 1,573 |
MCAManufacturers representatives | 11-50 employees | 55 | 37 | 103 |
CIBCRetail & commercial banks | 10,001+ employees | 15 | 20 | 689 |
Canadian Nuclear LaboratoriesUniversity research labs | 1001-5000 employees | 13 | 13 | 170 |
KPMG CanadaAI adoption consulting | 10,001+ employees | 13 | 31 | 474 |
The Canada Life Assurance CompanyInsurance companies underwriters | 501-1000 employees | 10 | 10 | 125 |
PPIHealth insurance brokers | 201-500 employees | 10 | 11 | 119 |
LoblawOnline grocery webshops | 10,001+ employees | 8 | 7 | 3,457 |
ManulifeWealth management general | 10,001+ employees | 8 | 47 | 648 |
EDCReceivables factoring | 1001-5000 employees | 7 | 8 | 35 |
EQ BankRetail & commercial banks | 201-500 employees | 7 | 12 | 81 |
LernersGeneralist law firms | 201-500 employees | 7 | 10 | 10 |
MalletteSME accounting tax practice | 1001-5000 employees | 7 | 9 | 61 |
McCarthy TétraultCommercial corporate law firms | 1001-5000 employees | 7 | 23 | 99 |
VancityRetail & commercial banks | 1001-5000 employees | 7 | 8 | 55 |
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By city, seniority and role family
Postings, then companies. Cities as the posting states them.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Toronto | 378 · 135 |
| Montréal | 161 · 37 |
| Montreal | 113 · 49 |
| Vancouver | 81 · 40 |
| Calgary | 77 · 50 |
| San Francisco | 60 · 27 |
| Los Angeles | 56 · 15 |
| Mississauga | 56 · 34 |
| Canada | 48 · 9 |
| Ottawa | 24 · 17 |
| Edmonton | 23 · 17 |
| London | 21 · 7 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| partner | 1 · 1 |
| Trainee, apprentice | 25 · 20 |
| Entry | 361 · 181 |
| Mid | 322 · 190 |
| Senior | 1,015 · 433 |
| Manager | 274 · 145 |
| Director | 123 · 82 |
| VP | 33 · 22 |
| C-level | 12 · 11 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| lawyers and legal counsel | 780 · 322 |
| compliance | 405 · 209 |
| contracts management | 338 · 176 |
| paralegal and legal support | 325 · 147 |
| risk management | 323 · 131 |
| financial crime and investigations | 184 · 91 |
Tools legal, compliance & risk postings in Canada ask for
Office software left out. Click through to every company on a tool.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Hybrid | 94 · 52 |
| Remote | 70 · 34 |
| Onsite | 50 · 33 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Posted in the last 7 days | 323 · 168 |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 1,463 · 517 |
| All open | 2,389 · 760 |
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760 companies have 2,389 open legal, compliance & risk roles in Canada; 517 of them posted 1,463 in the last 30 days. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/hiring/legal_compliance_and_risk/canada)
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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →
- Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites, with portals filling the gaps. Reposts collapse into one record; a role closes when the company closes it.
- Function and familyRole tree v2: every title classified into a function and a family, in every language.
- LocationThe posting's stated location, normalised to city and country. This page counts roles located in Canada.
- ExclusionsJob boards, directories and aggregators are kept out of company lists; staffing firms stay in only for their own hiring.
Legal, compliance & risk hiring in Canada: questions
What counts as a legal, compliance & risk role?
A posting classified into the legal, compliance & risk function by our role tree (v2), whatever the title says. "Account Executive", "Vertriebsmitarbeiter" and "SDR" all land in the same function, then in a family such as lawyers and legal counsel.
Why is Canada the posting's country, not the company's?
This page counts roles located in Canada. A US company hiring in Berlin counts; a Canadian company hiring in Paris does not. Company pages show the reverse view.
How fresh is it?
Career systems are checked hourly, so a role usually shows up the same day it opens and disappears the day it closes. Reposts collapse into one record.
Can I get the hiring manager?
Yes. For each company, the person the new hires report to, with a verified e-mail. The first 15 companies are on this page; the rest, and a weekly feed of new legal, compliance & risk hiring in Canada, is in the product.
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