The Department

Risk and Compliance work in collaboration with the business to ensure best practice across the Firm, effectively managing all aspects of the regulation surrounding the efficient running of the Firm. We are looking for someone with high attention to detail who prides themselves on providing an excellent service.

The role will involve working with key internal stakeholders in a fast-paced environment, so managing your time and the expectations of others is paramount. You will be joining a hardworking and fun team, who work together to provide a high level of service to the Firm and its clients.

This role will predominately support the Conflicts team as well as the General Counsel, Partner & COLP and the Senior Risk & Compliance Managers more generally.

Duties and Responsibilities

The role will involve acting as the first point of call for conflicts of interest and anti-money laundering enquiries for new clients and matters. This will involve undertaking research and analysis, clearing where appropriate and escalating where complex. There will also be the opportunity to guide junior members of the team with their work and act as a role model in supporting them in their development.

Conflicts

• Researching, analysing and conducting conflict checks for all new and existing clients and client matters across the Firm.
• Escalate complex conflicts issues to the Risk and Compliance Manager for resolution.
• Ensure that all conflicts are managed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Act as a point of escalation for junior members of the team offering training support and guidance.
• Assess/review conflict related queries in respect of previous clearances from a quality and control perspective.
• Provide proactive feedback to managers and senior managers in respect of process improvements and development of team.
• Point of contact for other teams and departments for conflict related queries.

Administration

• Ensure that all records, both paper and electronic, are filed and maintained to a high standard.
• Assisting in opening and maintaining client/matter files.
• Provide general administrative support to the team.
• Assist the management team with the delegation of tasks and responsibilities.
• Assist the management team in providing feedback on performance against team targets and KPI's
• Liaising with fee earners and staff in a timely, professional and courteous manner.
• Regularly, frequently and accurately maintaining and update correspondence and other filing.
• Maintaining confidentiality in respect of those matters which are commercially sensitive or secret and only share them with colleagues and others on a need to know basis who are themselves bound by an obligation of confidentiality.
• Liaising with other departments where required.

General

• To work to tight deadlines with a flexible attitude to working overtime on the few occasions when an urgent matter may require it.
• To maintain strict confidentiality in respect of those matters which are commercially sensitive or secret and only share them with colleagues and others on a need to know basis (who are themselves bound by an obligation of confidentiality).
• To be a positive role model to the R&C junior team members and help support them through induction and business change.

Skills/Experience

• At least 3 years' experience of handling and completing conflict searches and ideally AML enquiries too, in a legal environment.
• Educated to at least degree level, preferably with either the GDL and/or LPC.
• A genuine desire in developing a career in risk and compliance.
• Ability to identify the client due diligent requirements of corporate and individual clients.
• A good understanding of the SRA Standards and Regulations, in particular Rule 6 (Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality).
• Willingness and appetite to learn and develop their knowledge of other areas of risk and compliance.
• A sound, robust knowledge in researching, analysing and providing tailored solutions to conflicts of interest.
• Dynamic and driven with an ability to work independently with initiative, discretion and confidentiality.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload working independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/ key stakeholders.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Pro-active and takes initiative.
• Ability to work with and manage confidential information.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy, our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business, also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose, a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management, MDR Cyber, MDR Discover, MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx. Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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