At a Glance
- Tasks: Advise clients on regulatory risk and compliance, delivering strategic solutions across various industries.
- Company: Join Ashurst Perkins Coie, a global leader in legal services with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work options, health benefits, and career advancement opportunities.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with a dynamic team and excellent growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by solving complex challenges for leading organisations worldwide.
- Qualifications: 5-9 years of experience in regulatory risk and compliance, with strong client advisory skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
- Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Opportunity
We are seeking an Executive to join our Regulatory Risk team within Risk Advisory. You will collaborate with clients across industries including financial services, energy, retail, corporate, and government to deliver regulatory, risk, and compliance advice and solutions.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Providing strategic and commercial advice to help clients plan, deliver, and operationalise programs and projects, including licensing and regulatory approvals, regulatory change, compliance management, control design and effectiveness, consumer remediation, and regulatory investigations and enforcement
- Partnering closely with clients to understand and address strategic and risk management gaps, uplift compliance capabilities, and design and implement regulatory engagement strategies and compliance programs
- Structuring and managing end-to-end project scope, budget, and administration, including developing project plans, identifying resourcing needs, delegating and reviewing work, and ensuring timely delivery
- Leading the creation of client artefacts such as agendas, check-in packs, reports, workshop materials, and presentations, revised with input from Directors and Partners
- Designing the proposed approach for delivering client solutions, including scope of work, cost estimates, and relevant expertise required to suit the client's needs
This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.
About you
The successful candidate will have:
- 5-9 years of experience in regulatory, conduct, and compliance risk, ideally gained within a consulting environment
- Confidence advising clients on complex risk and compliance challenges, leading client meetings, and facilitating senior stakeholder discussions
- Recognised subject matter expertise in one or more areas, while being equally comfortable applying skills across a broad range of regulatory, risk, and compliance topics
- Proven experience delivering high-quality, thoughtful work for clients and stakeholders in line with expectations and deadlines
- Experience writing business documents, including reports, letters, and proposals for government or corporate audiences
Executive, Regulatory Risk employer: Ashurst
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through tailored development programmes and opportunities to engage with industry leaders in a vibrant location, making it an ideal place for professionals seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in finance operations.
