At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team in managing financial crime and regulatory risk for a law firm.
- Company: Reputable law firm focused on client risk and compliance.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and leadership opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities to work closely with senior stakeholders.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact by advising on complex risk matters and leading a specialist team.
- Qualifications: Experience in financial crime, AML, sanctions, and regulatory compliance.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Our law firm client are looking to appoint an experienced risk and compliance professional to lead a key area of its client risk function.
This is a senior role focused on financial crime, client acceptance and regulatory risk.
It would suit someone who enjoys leading a team, advising senior stakeholders and providing practical guidance on complex or sensitive risk matters.
The role The successful candidate will oversee a specialist client risk and compliance team, with responsibility for ensuring the business has clear, robust and commercially workable processes in place.
The role will involve advising on higher-risk client and matter issues, overseeing financial crime and sanctions-related queries, improving internal processes and supporting wider risk and compliance projects.
Key responsibilities will include: Managing and supporting a specialist risk and compliance team.
Advising on complex client acceptance and regulatory risk matters.
Overseeing financial crime, AML, sanctions and enhanced risk review processes.
Supporting internal reporting, governance, training and assurance activity.
Improving workflows, consistency and use of systems across the function.
Working closely with senior stakeholders across the business.
Candidate profile The ideal candidate will have strong experience in financial crime, AML, sanctions, client risk or regulatory compliance, ideally gained within a law firm, professional services business, financial institution or similarly regulated environment.
You will need to be technically strong, commercially aware and confident making judgement calls on sensitive issues.
