Risk & Compliance Associate - Bristol, United Kingdom - Foot Anstey LLP

Foot Anstey LLP

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an opportunity for an experienced Associate to join our Risk and Compliance team to be based from either our Southampton or Bristol office where you will be playing a key role in the day to day responsibility for all matters within compliance and audit function.

You will be reporting to the Executive Director - Risk & Compliance who heads this function, and in turn reports directly to the General Risk Counsel (GRC) Matthew Sturgeon | Foot Anstey, who leads the Business Excellence Team and Risk Management here at Foot Anstey and the wider Group.

THE TEAM

The Business Excellence team is made up of 8 professionals, 5 of whom are solicitors, focusing on risk and compliance.

The team's four main areas are:

compliance and audit; claims, complaints and quality; data protection and supply chain management; and strategic and other firmwide risk management including business continuity.

Our vision is for a market-leading risk team: commercially-aware; highly capable; bringing holistic risk management to every part of the business; and of considerable value to the firm, supporting it to do its best work for clients, safely.

What you'll do
- be primary reference point on compliance and related risk queries including on the Codes of Conduct (including client care, conflicts, confidentiality and information barriers), financial crime (particularly anti-bribery, and AML including sanctions and high-risk third country due diligence), limiting liability, supervision, audit and file review
- responsible for the maintenance of the firm's regulatory breach register and advising on responses and remedial actions following any breaches
- assist with implementing and the effective operation of business acceptance/file-opening systems including electronic PEP and sanctions searches
- draft, amend, implement and ensure consistent adherence to the firm's risk and compliance policies and procedures
- take a lead role in conducting internal file and supervisory audit, including reporting and any follow-up
- assist with responding to client questionnaires, tenders, etc as regards compliance and audit
- strive for continuous risk and compliance improvement
- when ready, be Deputy MLRO

What we need

A solicitor with 58 years PQE with strong knowledge of AML, the Codes of Conduct and the wider SRA regime
Solid analytical and drafting skills
Commercial and pragmatic with sound judgment and decisionmaking skills
Strong communicator, with measured approach which instils confidence and sense of support whilst delivering appropriate risk and compliance message
Teamcentric, relationshipbuilder
Servicefocused, qualitydriven and cando attitude
Resilient, with energy and enthusiasm for enhancing risk management

Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development.

Tailored to match the level you're working at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level.

We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years.

Employees can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most.

As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities.

Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.

By becoming our clients' most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do.

Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth.

Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth.

We now operate from seven locations:
Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton and London.

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the