Bau Conflicts Assistant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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THE GENERAL COUNSEL AND RISK DIVISION:

The GC & Risk team focuses on strategic risk management advice and projects across the firm's UK and international offices.

This includes advising the firm on regulatory and professional practice issues, drafting and agreeing firm-wide policies and procedures, and assisting the General Counsel, Conflicts Partner, Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Anti-Bribery & Corruption Officer.

The team is also responsible for implementing, embedding and monitoring compliance and risk practices across the firm, globally.

THE TEAM:

The Business Acceptance Unit (BAU) forms part of the Firm's GC&R Directorate.

The role reports to the BAU Conflicts Manager and involves the analysis of conflict and confidential information issues in accordance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority ('SRA') Code of Conduct 2019.

The team comprises of Assistants and Advisors processing and analysing conflict searches in relation to the Firm's inbound client and matter instructions.

The team is also responsible for implementing and maintaining Information Barriers and Insider Lists in accordance to Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), and dealing with general client and matter inception queries including elements of matter management and engagement letter maintenance.

As a BAU Conflicts Assistant you will work closely with other Assistants in the team and provide support to the Advisors, the BAU Conflicts Manager and General Counsel and Risk Lawyers (GC&R) to resolve conflict and confidential information issues.

Advice is provided to partners and fee earners in relation to the Firm's procedures and conflict checking obligations.

Working in this team you can expect:

An attractive, competitive salary and benefits package.
A flexible and friendly working environment (hybrid working is encouraged to get a balance between working from home and being in the office) and a supportive team culture where we all look out for each other at all levels.
Award winning state of the art technology and innovation (ranked top 4 in the latest Financial Times Innovative Lawyer report making us one of the most innovated law firms in Europe) including document automation and AI document review systems.
Extensive business development, support, and training.

WHAT DOES THE ROLE INVOLVE?:

Processing and filtering conflict search results, conducting legal and commercial analysis of potential conflict and confidentiality issues. Reporting only key issues to partners, fee earners or the GC&R team.
Analysing confidential records to assess the relevance and supporting GC&R in referrals to the Conflicts Committee / Conflicts Partner.
Liaising with PAs, fee earners, partners and GC&R in relation to potential issues and general queries.
Processing all queries received into the team's inbox, including the creation and maintenance of information barriers, processing of extend reports and other ad hoc tasks. Dealing with compliance related queries with supervision.
Monitoring in and outbound workflow to ensure internal SLAs are achieved.
Compiling Management Information ('MI') statistics for stakeholders.
Undertaking project work in relation to BAU workflows, monitoring systems and controls.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE?:

Experience in dealing with conflict check processing or strong knowledge of conflicts gained from a legal role
Strong analytical and research skills with the ability to work with large volumes of data and competing deadlines.
Capable of using own initiative with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
Excellent service orientation skills, a selfstarter with experience of working within service levels.
Good communication skills with the ability to communicate appropriately both verbally and in writing.
Adaptable and flexible.
Proficient in using Microsoft Office software, i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?:

As a firm, we aim to provide a positive experience to everyone who works here and our focus on financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits ensures that this experience goes beyond the nine-to-five.

As part of this mission, some of the benefits employees of AG can expect are;

Life Assurance & Income Protection
Competitive employer matched pension contribution rate
Health and wellbeing subsidiary, up to £180 per year
One day per year to volunteer (as part of our CSR initiative)
Buy/Sell holidays (up to 5 days each year)
Mental health and wellbeing initiatives such as The Mindful Business Charter, Mental Health Champions and 1:1 sessions with an inhouse professional
Talent referral bonus incentives
AG Excellence awards for the recognition of exceptional effort
Opt in private medical and private dental insurance
Opt in annual health screening
Voluntary critical illness cover
Annual discretionary bonus plan