Policy Associate - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Solicitors Regulation Authority

Solicitors Regulation Authority
Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description
Contract Type
Permanent

  • Working Pattern
Full time - flexible working may be considered

  • Working Hours
35 hours per week

  • Salary
£44,480 - £52,325; £50,262 - £59,127 for London

  • Location Options
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham, Hybrid - home based and London, Old Broad Street, Hybrid - home based and Cardiff

  • Function Type
Regulation

We are currently looking for a Policy Associate to join our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) team.

This is a hybrid role working from either of Birmingham, London or Cardiff office 1-2 days per week and from home rest of the week.

The role will require weekly travel, one day a week, to our office in Birmingham.


What's in it for you:


  • Develop and deliver AML policy to prevent money laundering in the legal sector
  • Be part of a friendly, dedicated and growing team, where you can take the lead on areas of economic crime policy and contribute to the wider work of the organisation
  • Lead on the development and roll out of AML training across the organisation
  • Develop knowledge of AML and financial sanctions legislation, best practice and risks

The role
At the SRA, keeping money launderers and financial crime out of legal services has long been a priority.

Anti-money laundering (AML) in the legal sector is seeing rapid change, with the adoption of legal technology and more recently the evolving financial sanctions requirements on law firms following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.


As a Policy Associate you will work with the Head of AML Policy and contribute to the development and implementation of AML policy which guides our AML supervisory work, and regulation of the legal services market.


As a confident and credible communicator, you will be able to engage effectively with both internal and external stakeholders, and present complex information in an understandable way.

You will also make your contributions to reports, consultation papers, policy documents, committee and board papers on the topic of AML.

You will contribute to external events, for example by participating in conferences or roundtables.

This role has responsibility to deliver a rolling programme of AML training to staff of existing and upcoming requirements.

This will require engagement with people from all levels of the organisation, to coordinate, and where necessary deliver AML training to all teams.


A Role Profile with further information on the role can be found at the bottom of the advert on our website.


What we are looking for:


  • Experience of policy development and delivery
  • Excellent drafting skills to produce a wide range of highquality written reports
  • Confident communicator, with ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders
  • Some understanding of antimoney laundering/or experience of regulation
  • Ability to develop and deliver training

Useful and additional information
There is a Role Profile attached at the bottom of the advert on our website.


To apply

  • The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.

We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation.

We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation


Vacancy closing date:

28/08/2023, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.
**We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
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