Senior Compliance & Regulatory Officer

Irwin Mitchell; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK law firm seeks a Legal and Regulatory Change Senior Officer to manage regulatory and compliance projects. You will lead end-to-end project management while advising on policies and procedures, mentoring colleagues, and ensuring compliance with legal obligations. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management skills, excellent communication abilities, and a firm grasp of legal processes. The firm offers generous benefits, a commitment to social responsibility, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Generous and flexible pension schemes

Two days of volunteering per year

Health membership with refunds on medical services

Qualifications

• Experience in a legal, client-facing, consulting or professional services environment.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at an executive level.
• Comfortable working agile to tight schedules while supporting junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple regulatory and compliance projects end-to-end.
• Draft, review and advise on policies and procedures.
• Coach and mentor officers/coordinators when required.

Skills

Project management experience

Exposure to compliance areas

Relationship skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical skills

Strong drafting skills

Knowledge of legal procedures

Proficient with Microsoft 365

Job description

Your Role

As a Legal and Regulatory Change Senior Officer, you’ll partner with senior leaders and stakeholders to shape and deliver the General Counsel Team’s strategy across the Irwin Mitchell Group. You will lead multiple regulatory and compliance projects end‑to‑end, applying project‑management best practice from scoping and planning through execution and closure. You’ll provide assurance updates to the Senior Manager, Senior Leadership Team and General Counsel colleagues, resolve complex queries independently, and manage RAID (risks, actions, issues, decisions / dependencies) with confidence.

and What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll draft, review and advise on policies and procedures, and lead monitoring and escalation of incidents or breaches to ensure timely remediation. You will also coach and mentor officers / coordinators when required, drive process improvements and produce clear MI and management decks for decision‑making. A strong understanding of SRA rules and relevant legislation enables you to assess whether systems, controls and documentation meet our legal and regulatory compliance obligations.

About You

• Project management experience in a legal, client‑facing, consulting or professional services environment
• Exposure to at least one compliance area (e.g. SRA Regulations, Client Care, Conflicts, Financial Crime / AML, Risk Management, Data Protection)
• Ability to influence stakeholders up to executive level
• Client‑facing relationship skills, and excellent communication, facilitation and presentation capability
• Analytical, and comfortable working agile to tight schedules—organising your workload and supporting junior team members
• Strong drafting / report‑writing skills
• Knowledge of legal procedures
• Interpersonal presence to network across the business
• Proficient with Microsoft 365

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands : Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.