Anti-Money Laundering Officer

The Legal, Risk and Compliance Department is headed by the firm’s General Counsel. It is a team of 27 and includes Compliance Lawyers and the Compliance Services team, within which this role sits. The AML Officer will report directly to the AML Manager and be supervised by the Senior AML Officer but will have wider interactions with all members of Compliance. The AML Officer provides support, assistance and training to all users across the firm, and within the Department, in relation to business acceptance, ensuring that all new clients and new matters opened comply with the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) and Client Due Diligence (“CDD”) policies and procedures. The role offers the opportunity to apply CDD knowledge and to learn new skills and increase knowledge. This would be an ideal role for a candidate with CDD experience looking to develop a career in this field. Training and development opportunities are provided to support the AML Officer in providing an excellent, professional and expert service to the firm.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support fee earners and Executive Assistants in ensuring that all new clients and new matters opened comply with the firm’s AML and CDD policies and procedures.
• Reviewing and documenting CDD evidence.
• Screening of new clients and writing risk assessments.
• Conducting ongoing enhanced, Politically Exposed Person (“PEP”), high risk third country and sanctions monitoring.
• Assisting with matter risk scoring and writing matter risk assessments when required.
• Providing the Compliance Officers with support and guidance in relation to their AML and CDD related duties.
• Monitoring the AML Officer’s shared mailbox and working with the other AML Officers to ensure that queries are distributed and dealt with in a timely manner.
• Monitoring CDD clearance times.
• Maintaining client and matter record information and assisting with data remediation where required.
• Compile statistics and assist with compliance monitoring reviews.
• Act as an ambassador for Compliance, and the services it provides, internally and to build relationships across the firm.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Candidates for this position must have:

• Educated to a degree level.
• Worked within a professional services environment for at least 2 years.
• At least 2 years’ experience in CDD/AML, to include identifying a range of entity types.
• Confident and articulate communicator, dealing effectively with people at all levels.
• Present complex procedures clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles.
• Excellent online research skills.
• Proven experience using Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Experience using Intapp Intake (Open) would be beneficial.
• Ability to absorb, analyse and consolidate large amounts of information.
• Attention to detail in own and others’ work.
• Good team player, contributing to the team, offering support to colleagues and sharing information and best practice.
• Experience of delivering, or willingness to deliver, presentations and training.
• Active interest in compliance and current affairs.
• Confident and proactive, prepared to take a hands-on approach to managing workload using own initiative.

We welcome applications irrespective of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, belief or marital status.