Risk and Compliance Manager - Top 100 firm
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £65000 - £75000 per annum
- Closing date
- 11 Feb 2025
- Reference
- BH-48541
Job Details
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time
(Hybrid: 3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and proactive Risk and Compliance Manager to join a high-performing Risk and Compliance team in a leading London-based firm. This role is central to ensuring regulatory excellence, managing the onboarding process, and strengthening the compliance framework.
Reporting directly to the Head of Compliance (HoC), the successful candidate will also manage and develop the central onboarding team, fostering best practices and driving improvements in the firm's compliance operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage and motivate the central onboarding team, ensuring services align with strategic priorities.
- Onboarding Oversight: Oversee the client and matter onboarding process, ensuring compliance with Policies, Controls, and Procedures (PCPs).
- Quality Assurance: Perform quality checks on compliance activities, approving processes, and drafting escalation reports where required.
- Inbox Management: Supervise the compliance inbox, ensuring all queries are handled promptly and accurately.
- Registers & Reports: Maintain central registers and deliver management information reports to the HoC.
- Training & Guidance: Deliver compliance training, support the onboarding team, and provide advice to legal and business support teams on internal procedures.
- Third-Party Tools: Manage third-party accounts for compliance tools and ID&V screening.
- Compliance Calendar: Administer activities in the compliance calendar and coordinate cross-functional improvement projects.
- Policy Support: Assist the MLRO and HoC with compliance queries and ensure alignment with the firm’s risk framework.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: Minimum 5 years in a risk and compliance management role, preferably in legal or financial services.
- Education: A degree is required, with AML qualifications considered advantageous.
- Knowledge: Up-to-date understanding of AML regulations and legal sector obligations.
- Attributes: Exceptional attention to detail, resilience, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to handle confidential information professionally.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive, progressive, and entrepreneurial environment that values people and fosters a culture of collaboration. The firm is highly regarded for its high-profile work and commitment to delivering exceptional client service.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary (benchmarked for London market rates).
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Hybrid working model.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Additional employee benefits aligned with the firm’s commitment to work-life balance and well-being.
Company
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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