Conflicts & Compliance Team Leader

Clyde & Co; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Clyde & Co seeks a Conflicts & Compliance Team Leader in Manchester to oversee compliance procedures and manage the BAU team. This mid-senior role involves liaising with partners, enhancing processes, and ensuring adherence to legal standards while fostering a collaborative team environment. Candidates should have strong leadership and communication skills, familiarity with compliance regulations, and the ability to mentor team members.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement Planning

Wellbeing Initiatives

Qualifications

• Knowledge of SRA rules and case law on conflicts of interest.
• Familiarity with anti-money laundering legislation.
• Experience in managing teams and training individuals.

Responsibilities

• Leading the team in daily operations and compliance procedures.
• Coordinating conflict of interest searches and anti-money laundering processes.
• Training and mentoring team members to build expertise.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Leadership

Communication

Customer Focus

Strategic Thinking

Education

Degree or other relevant qualifications

Tools

MS Office

Elite Enterprise

Job description

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The Role

The Role

Department: Business Acceptance Unit ('BAU')

Location: Manchester

Role: Global Head of BAU

Working Pattern: Your normal working hours will be Monday - Friday, 9.00 to 17.30

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading, sector-focused global law firm with 400 partners, 2000 legal professionals and 3600 staff in over 40 offices across six continents. Its core global sectors position it at the heart of global trade and commerce: insurance, trade & commodities, energy, transport and infrastructure. With a strong emerging markets focus, the firm has achieved compound average annual revenue growth of 12% over the last five years, making it one of the fastest growing law firms in the world with ambitious plans for further growth.

Our achievements were recognized in 2016, when we were awarded the accolade of Law Firm of the Year by The Lawyer. This award is one of the most sought-after in the industry as it recognises the firm that has performed most strongly on a number of measures including; strong leadership and strategic vision, strong financial management and growth, talent management and workplace development and client innovation.

Our vision is to be our clients first choice for complex, multi-jurisdictional matters in our chosen sectors by investing in our core practice areas in chosen locations, serving an international client base and build a network of offices in key trading zones. Our key focus is also to become the "go to" firm in emerging markets, running ourselves professionally by attracting and developing the best people.

The Role

You will be responsible for assisting partners and other members of Clyde & Co, across the firm, with the new business inception process in line with legislation and regulatory requirements.

This will include conflict of interest searches for legal and commercial conflicts, anti-money laundering processes for new and existing clients, on-going client monitoring, sanctions checks and other risk management procedures.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leader

• Leading the team on a day to day basis with clear direction and supervision.
• Striving to develop and improve current processes across the department.
• Sharing existing and new knowledge amongst the team.
• Taking responsibility for identifying gaps in knowledge within the team and providing or arranging additional training when required.
• Supervising, training and mentoring the BAU team members to help them develop areas of expertise.
• Assisting with performance management, training and ongoing development of the team, improving technical and soft skills, ensuring that each individual has the correct skills and competencies to perform their role.
• Working with the Global Head of BAU to set the standards for the department.
• Continually monitoring the performance of the department in line with the set standard for AML, Conflicts and Sanctions.
• Assisting the Global Head of BAU in monitoring and auditing service levels of the BAU (e.g. speed of responses, quality of information, adherence to firm policy and procedure).
• Supervising the work flow around the BAU Team, ensuring conflicting deadlines are managed and work is prioritised effectively and efficiently.
• Assisting in promoting the department to the wider firm by building relationships with key stakeholders.
• Assisting and supporting team members on achieving positive outcomes that can promote the department and influence key stakeholders.
  
  

Conflicts

• Liaising with lawyers to identify any potential legal or commercial conflicts of interest relating to new matters and clients across all practice areas of the firm, with the objective of:
• reducing lawyer time spent on compliance issues by working to resolve issues within the BAU team and communicating effectively with case-handlers;
• ensuring, where permitted by applicable conflict and other professional rules, that the firm remains free to act in multiple roles and/ or on related matters when appropriate; and
• reducing the firm's exposure to professional misconduct or loss of reputation by enforcing policy and procedure across the BAU team and encouraging best practice by case-handlers; and
• Where appropriate, escalating complex and sensitive conflicts of interest issues to the Global Head of BAU and/or Risk Team.
• Dealing with price sensitive information and other confidential information issues. Processing and analysis of share dealing requests and escalating potential issues to the Risk Partners and/or Risk Team.
• Guiding the BAU team as to the appropriate and effective analysis of information in the firm's conflict management systems.
• Ensuring the maintenance of the conflicts database Intapp Open is current, accurate and complete.
• Ensuring complete and orderly record-keeping of conflict checks by the BAU team.
• Creating and maintaining library of know-how and other information for use by the BAU team, the Global Head of BAU and the Risk Team.
• Assisting the Global Head of BAU and Risk Team with the creation and implementation of internal processes for compliance with new legislation, regulation and best practice, particularly in the areas of conflicts of interest and confidential information.
• Assisting the Global Head of BAU with training of current team on conflicts, confidentiality and related issues and providing appropriate induction training for new joiners.
  
  

Specification

• Knowledge of the SRA rules including conflicts of interests and knowledge of case law on conflicts of interest.
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering legislation.
• Strong MS Office.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong customer focus.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Good standard of written and oral English.
• Degree or other relevant qualifications.
• Experience using Elite Enterprise or similar management systems (Desirable).
  
  

Competencies

• Strategic thinker with commercial awareness.
• Service orientated: Recognising internal and external clients and the importance of service delivery.
• Adaptable to new systems, procedures and requirements of role.
• Excellent leadership abilities with strong team ethic.
• Flexible approach, whilst maintaining levels of motivation across the team ensuring staff are capable of delivering to deadlines.
• Ability to mentor and coach individuals.
• Confident dealing with senior management and ensuring service levels are adhered to.
• Disciplined and self-motivated.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Confident and proactive approach.
• Enthusiastic and positive attitude.
• Ability to exercise discretion when necessary.
  
  

Our Values

Our Values Are The Principles That Guide The Decisions We Make, Unite Us In Our Endeavours And Strengthen Our Delivery, For Our Clients And Our Firm. We

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth
  
  

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The Competencies Are Used To Inform All Aspects Of Business Services Career Development. They Vary Across Levels And Different Business Areas And Fall Under The Following Areas

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness
  
  

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 490 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.

Please take a moment to read our privacy notice carefully. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.

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