Careers

About Ashurst:

Ashurst is a leading global law firm with a history spanning 200 years and a vision to be the most progressive global law firm. Our in-depth understanding of our clients and commitment to providing exceptional standards of service have seen us become a trusted adviser to local and global corporates, financial institutions and governments in all areas of commercial law. With offices across the globe, we offer the reach, insight and career opportunities of a truly integrated global network that is built on our values of being passionate about quality, delivering through collaboration and thinking differently. For us, "progressive" is a mind-set, an approach to how we do things. We instinctively take a fresh perspective on situations, exploring whether there are better ways of achieving our clients' goals as well as our own. We also aim to be at the forefront of the evolution of our industry and have led the market by establishing our New Law Division (Ashurst Advance) and our Consulting Division to provide holistic legal and operational advice to our clients. To find out more please visit www.ashurst.com

Job Overview

Main Tasks

• Regulatory and Risk Advisory: Provide strategic and commercial advice to assist clients in planning, delivering, and operationalizing programs and projects. This includes advising on Licensing and regulatory approvals, regulatory change, compliance management, control design and effectiveness, consumer remediation and regulatory investigations and enforcement.
• Client Engagement: Work closely with clients to address strategic and risk management gaps, uplift compliance capabilities, and design and implement regulatory engagement strategies and compliance programs.
• Project Management: Structure and manage end-to-end project scope, budget, and administration. Develop project plans, identify resourcing needs, delegate and review work across the project team, and ensure timely delivery.
• Client Deliverables: Lead the creation of client artefacts such as agendas, check-in packs, reports, workshop materials, and presentations. Ensure these deliverables are revised with input from Directors and Partners.
• Business Development: Develop go-to-market materials, including capability statements and potential offerings. Identify opportunities to go to market and work with other parts of Risk Advisory and the broader firm to bring our unique integrated offering to life.
• Proposal Development: Design the proposed approach for delivering client solutions, including the scope of work, cost estimates, and identifying relevant expertise and experience required to suit the client's needs.
• Relationship Building: Maintain strong internal and external networks and stay updated on infrastructure trends and issues impacting the sector. Assist in building and fostering trusted client relationships with integrity, including liaising directly with clients and leading client meetings when required.
• Team Development: Assist with coaching junior members of the team and recruitment.

Additional Tasks

• Contribute positively to the culture, growth, and development of the Risk Advisory practice and Regulatory Risk team globally.
• Work alongside Ashurst's Financial Regulatory, Disputes, Competition, Employment and Digital Economy legal teams to bring a unique and market-leading approach to advising and supporting clients.
• Embrace a fast-paced environment that is always evolving, requiring proactive, confident, and humble engagement with alternate viewpoints.
• Deliver high-quality work for clients and stakeholders in line with expectations and deadlines, with a focus on attention to detail and exceptional written and verbal communication.
• Actively seek and welcome feedback to support the development of your skills and expertise. Enthusiastically continue learning and developing your skills and knowledge daily.

About you

Essential Skills

• Self-Starter: Keen to work in a fast-paced environment that is always evolving and requires you to be proactive, confident, and humble.
• Business Development: Proven experience in business development, including developing go-to-market material and proposals.
• Project Management: Experience developing and managing project plans, ensuring project budgets are met, and structuring and managing the end-to-end project scope, budget, and administration.
• Client Relationship: Experience providing the highest quality service to clients and fostering professional and commercial relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Team Development: Proven experience coaching and guiding junior members of your team. Actively seek and welcome feedback to support the development of your skills and expertise and are enthusiastic to continue learning and developing your skills and knowledge daily.
• Proactive and Confident: A self-starter who is keen to work in a fast-paced environment that is always evolving. Proactive, confident in embracing alternate viewpoints.
• Client-Focused: Confident in autonomously finding solutions to a range of problems, especially those related to risk management, in a commercial and client-focused way.

Preferred Skills

• Additional experience in finance/financial advisory, property development/advisory, economics, strategy, risk, and/or engineering.

Qualifications

• 5-9 years of Regulatory, conduct and compliance risk, ideally within a consulting environment.
• Comfortable advising clients on complex commercial issues relating to major public infrastructure and/or property projects to ensure project success.
• Proven experience delivering high-quality work for clients and stakeholders in line with expectations and deadlines.
• Experience writing a range of business documents, including reports, letters, and proposals for government or corporate audiences.

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Accessibility

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you consider yourself to have a disability or a long-term health condition, please feel able to be open about this at any point during the recruitment process. If you are not sure what adjustments you require, we will work with you to establish the most suitable adjustments at each stage of the recruitment process. Please note that our online application form includes a section which allows you to advise us of any extenuating circumstances that are relevant for us to consider when reviewing your application form. Any information disclosed on your disability will remain strictly confidential and please contact us if you have any questions.

Background checks
To comply with regulatory and client requirements, Ashurst will undertake appropriate vetting of staff. When applicants accept a job offer, Ashurst, alongside a specialist provider, will undertake professional verification and background checks. These checks are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.