Senior Conflicts & Compliance Lead — Asia & ME

Walkers Global; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Walkers Global is seeking an experienced Senior Conflicts Manager to lead a global conflicts team, ensuring compliance with conflicts of interest, information barriers and client confidentiality across jurisdictions. You will drive process improvements, policy development and staff development.

You will manage a distributed team, coordinate with the Director of Conflicts and senior stakeholders, and help scale the conflicts function to support business growth in the UAE, Asia and beyond.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in law, business, finance or another relevant field.
• Experience in a compliance or in-house legal role in an international law firm or professional services environment.
• Compliance expert with deep technical and practical knowledge of legal conflicts of interest, commercial conflicts and client confidentiality, with some knowledge of Market Abuse Regs.
• Familiarity with Intapp Intake.
• Experience of policy work.
• Experience of people management, including supervision/management of large teams and experience devising and driving people initiatives (including around recruitment and development).
• Proven track record of delivering change and process improvements.
• Experience working in an offshore environment or with offshore structures would be helpful but not required

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of conflicts advisors within the relevant time zone (including leading the recruitment of additional conflicts advisors).
• Act as a point of escalation for the team and the business on all legal and commercial conflicts issues, analysing and resolving issues in accordance with applicable regulations, professional rules and Walkers own policy and procedures.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Walkers globally, acting as a point of contact in relation to all conflicts and client confidentiality queries and leading communications across the business in this area.
• Together with other senior team members, lead on internal training as it relates to conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, share dealing and insider lists.
• Identify any weaknesses or areas for potential improvement in our existing client onboarding system (Intapp Intake) and, working with the Director of Conflicts and the Compliance Business Systems team, recommend enhancements that streamline/simplify processes for team and the business, and/or strengthen our controls.
• Working with the Director of Conflicts and key stakeholders from across the business, develop and deliver a phased programme of work that: (i) rapidly enhances our conflicts offering/service delivery to the business (including through improved time zone coverage/capacity, responsiveness, efficiency and expertise); (ii) enables us to provide a fully centralised conflict checking/analysis function within the next two years.
• Support the Director of Conflicts in driving quality, consistency, service excellence, efficiency, proactivity and adaptability across the Conflicts team.
• Assist the Director of Conflicts in developing and leading people initiatives within the Conflicts team to drive development of expertise and skills, attraction and retention, and fostering a high-performing, collaborative and open team culture.
• Input into regular reporting to senior management and/or other stakeholders as required.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives which impact or relate to conflicts of interest and client confidentiality.
• Keep abreast with developments in regulation, technology and the market which are relevant to conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, market abuse/insider trading, and information barriers.

Skills

Conflict of interest

Client confidentiality

Policy development

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in law, business, finance

Tools

Intapp Intake

Job description

Walkers Global is seeking an experienced Senior Conflicts Manager to lead a global conflicts team, ensuring compliance with conflicts of interest, information barriers and client confidentiality across jurisdictions. You will drive process improvements, policy development and staff development.

You will manage a distributed team, coordinate with the Director of Conflicts and senior stakeholders, and help scale the conflicts function to support business growth in the UAE, Asia and beyond.