We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a professional, engaging individual to join us as a Compliance Officer in our London-based Compliance Department.

The Compliance Department is headed by the firm s General Counsel and comprises a team of Compliance Lawyers and the Compliance Services team, within which this role sits. The Compliance Officer will report directly to the Compliace Services Manager but will have wider interactions with all members of Compliance.

The Compliance Officer provides support, assistance and training to all users across the firm, and within the Department, in relation to the firm s business acceptance policies and procedures. The breadth and variety of the role offers opportunities to apply knowledge, learn and develop new skills and participate in projects, monitoring exercises, reviewing procedures and delivering training. Training and development opportunities are provided to support the Compliance Officer in providing an excellent, professional and expert service to the firm.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES //

The key responsibilities of this role are set out below and there may be others which are not listed. The Compliance Services team operates on a rota basis covering Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm, and provides conflict check cover from 6-8pm during the week.

Conflict searches

• Run and send conflict searches to fee earners for analysis.
• Review all new clients and matters to ensure that a conflict check has been run where one is required under the firm s procedures.

Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") and Client Due Diligence ("CDD")

• Work alongside the AML Officers to support fee earners and secretaries in ensuring that all new clients and new matters opened comply with the firm s Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") and Client Due Diligence ("CDD") policies and procedures.
• Conduct client screening, sanctions screening, enhanced due diligence monitoring and other research and searches as required.

Client and matter inception and maintenance

• Review and verify client and matter record requests in Intapp Intake.
• Deal with queries about client and matter inception, matter security and matter record maintenance.
• Manage and implement ethical walls and maintain relevant logs.
• Monitor the team s shared mailboxes and working with the rest of the team to ensure that emails, notifications and requests are distributed and dealt with in a timely manner.

Terms and Conditions of Business

• Send the firm s Terms and Conditions of Business to new clients.
• Conduct all client Terms and Conditions of Business mailshots when required.
• Record special terms agreed with clients.
• Maintain the Terms and Conditions Register and Engagement Letter Register in Intapp Terms.

Other responsibilities

• Run Supplier checks and Dealing checks.
• Compile statistics and assist with compliance monitoring reviews.
• Develop and deliver presentations and training across the firm and within the Department.
• Act as an ambassador for Compliance, and the services it provides, internally and build relationships across the firm.

CANDIDATE PROFILE //

Candidates for this position should be educated to a degree level or have relevant work experience. They will have worked within a professional or legal services environment for at least 2 years and should be able to demonstrate the following keys skills and attributes:

• Confident and articulate communicator, dealing effectively with people at all levels.
• Present own ideas and complex procedures clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles.
• Excellent online research skills.
• Absorb, analyse and consolidate large amounts of information.
• Attention to detail in own and others work.
• Good team player, contributing to the team, offering support to colleagues and sharing information and best practice.
• Interest in Compliance technology solutions. Experience using Intapp Intake, Intapp Terms and Intapp Conflicts would be beneficial.
• Experience of delivering, or willingness to deliver, presentations and training.
• Active interest in compliance and current affairs.
• Confident and proactive, prepared to take a hands-on approach to managing workload using own initiative.