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Financial Crime Paralegal

Clyde & Co

London

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GBP 25,000 - 40,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

A leading global law firm is seeking a Financial Crime Paralegal to join its Risk Department in London. This entry-level role involves providing compliance support, researching regulatory issues, and assisting with various projects related to financial crime. Candidates should have a degree and strong organizational and communication skills, with an opportunity to grow within a dynamic team focused on best practices in compliance.

Qualifications

Educated to degree level.
Experience in a leading firm.
Ability to write clear guidance.

Responsibilities

Support financial crime projects.
Research legal and regulatory issues.
Draft financial crime regulatory updates.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree in any field

Tools

Excel

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Job Description | Financial Crime Paralegal

Description

Job Description | Financial Crime Paralegal

Department: Risk

Location: London

The Team

The Risk Department provides support to the firm's senior management and to the wider business, to ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards of professional conduct, optimally manages risk and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

The Role

The role is to provide risk and in particular financial crime compliance support to the firm's General Counsel, COLP and COFA and to the wider business, to ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards in the manner in which the professional standards of conduct are applied in client relationships, in its management of risk and its compliance with regulatory requirements. The role will also assist in promoting best practice in these areas throughout the firm's international network. The successful candidate will work with paralegals and in-house lawyers in the Financial Crime Team, which is part of the Risk Team.

Key Responsibilities

Providing support on financial crime projects
Researching legal and regulatory issues and assisting in the production of related guidance, practice notes, templates and training material
Assisting with the planning, preparation of minutes and follow-up actions from the Financial Crime Committee
Drafting financial crime regulatory updates and bulletins
Assisting with the administration of the sanctions manager inbox with the Risk paralegals.
Performing of sanctions, adverse media and PEP checks.
Maintaining and updating the financial crime-related material on the Risk Team's intranet pages.
Helping with the administration and delivery of training and awareness programmes and materials for lawyers and other staff.
Assisting with the regular review and updating of the firm's policies and procedures, maintaining the PEP, High Risk Client, Sanctions Tracker, ABC and other documentation and records.

Required

Experience and Skills Required

Educated to degree level
Experience working in a leading Central London or major regional firm.
Strong organisational, communication and project management skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills - the person will liaise with both lawyers and business services groups, in each case at all levels of seniority.
Strong analytical skills and ability to focus on detail but also on the larger picture.
Basic IT skills including using Excel
Ability to write clear, accurate and practical guidance and precedents.
Awareness
Personal Effectiveness

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

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.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Entry level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Legal
Industries
Law Practice

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