Conflicts Analyst - City of London, United Kingdom - Lewis Row Ltd

Lewis Row Ltd

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City of London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Conflicts Analyst to join a large international law firm in London.

The New Business Intake Team has overall responsibility for ensuring all of the processes involved in taking on a new client/matter are adhered to and in accordance with the firms risk management procedures.

These include carrying out conflict checks for thefirms offices, client approval, matter inception, anti-money laundering checks, tracking of client terms and retainers, monitoring information barriers and recording of referrals.

The Conflicts Team provides services globally every day of the year.

Key Responsibilities:

Managing conflict checks on every new matter globally to identify and resolve legal and commercial conflicts of interest
Review every new client and matter opportunity through analysis of internal and external information sources and advise Partners globally in relation to conflict and information barrier issues.
Understand and identify wider risk and reputational, sanctions, financial crime and conflict issues through matter risk assessment.
Communicating with partners and staff regarding conflict check results, processes and policies.
Ensuring the London team have a close working relationship with the Sydney team.
Actively contributing to the building of an effective and mutually supportive conflicts team globally
Influence the design and optimisation of conflicts and information barrier management technology.
Potentially providing assistance and cover for other NBI team members as required and handling ad hoc queries.

Experience:

Law degree
Work experience in a professional services environment in this field for a year
Excellent research and analytical skills

This is an excellent opportunity for a compliance analyst who wishes to focus more on the conflicts side to progress their career in a really supportive team and firm on a hybrid basis.

Salary around £55.000.

Please contact Rowena Bubb of Lewis Row Recruitment for further information.