Risk and Ethics Conflict Check Assistant

Role Responsibilities:

• Conducting conflict checks across the firm’s databases and analysing results.
• Liaise with fee earners to identify any potential conflicts of interest relating to new matters and clients across all practice areas of the firm.
• Escalate any complex and challenging potential conflicts of interest to the Risk and Ethics Manager.
• Assisting with the recording of conflict decisions made.
• Assisting with putting controls in place to prevent potential conflicts of interests.
• Conducting Sanctions & PEP Screening as part of the client onboarding process.
• Working to strict timeframes.

Skills and Experience:

• Graduate degree in any subject (desirable but not essential).
• Able to evidence ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload.
• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent time management, organisational and administrative skills.
• Team player but self-motivated and able to work autonomously.
• Able to demonstrate experience in liaising pro-actively with third parties.
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Benefits:

• Salary is competitive
• 25 days annual leave including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• Private Health Insurance
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Income Protection Cover
• Optical Care vouchers and many more benefits and discounts

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race.

Appointment is subject to the appropriate background checks and satisfactory references.

A note to recruitment agencies: we like to recruit ourselves initially so this role is only open to direct applicants. If we do need any extra help we will reach out to you and utilise our PSL in the first instance.