Careers at Burges Salmon

We are currently recruiting for a Client Onboarding Assistant to join our Client Intake team. The role is based in our Bristol office which is located in the heart of the city, a stone's throw from Bristol Temple Meads, although at present, the team is mainly working remotely.

The Client Intake team is responsible for a range of client and matter on-boarding activities, including managing the firm's client matter inception process, conducting AML checks, running conflict checks, updating and managing client purchase orders, matter closure and routine client and matter data maintenance.

As our Client Onboarding Assistant you will be the first point of contact for our legal teams, you will be responsible for providing an efficient AML and conflict check service whilst also ensuring that all data is of good quality and accurate. You can expect to become a 'go to' person for enquiries and will always be ready to respond in an efficient and professional manner.

To be successful as our Client Onboarding Assistant, you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Experience in a similar New Business Intake or Client Onboarding role in the legal sector or in professional services.
• An understanding of anti-money laundering, client due diligence and know your client requirements.
• Have a general understanding of how to deal with conflicts of interest checks
• A customer focused approach and able to work collaboratively at all levels, building and developing relationships with Lawyers, PAs, Assistants and other key stakeholders across the Firm
• A good working knowledge of MS Office applications (Outlook, Word and Excel) is essential.

We work in a fast-paced environment so you will need to keep up; adaptability and resilience are key to success in this role. Our Client Intake team work very hard but in return we offer support and a fantastic environment to work in.

We are always keen to find people who continually look to improve themselves, our Client Intake team has a clear promotion structure, and further qualifications are not only supported but encouraged.

Why Burges Salmon

Our six core values - Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ' working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have won the 'Client Management Innovation' category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards 2021 and listed in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2021. We were also named 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at the Legal Week British Legal Awards in 2020 and our commitment to excellence has also recently been recognised by the IIP who have awarded us Platinum certification for our investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

For full details of the role please see the job description attached below, any questions regarding the role or the interview process please contact Jenna Hazel (Resourcing Business Partner) on 0117 307 6060 or email jenna.hazel@burges-salmon.com

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This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. If you are interested in applying please submit an application as soon as you can.