Risk & Compliance Monitoring Manager in London

Kilburn & Strode is a top European intellectual property firm, headquartered in London, with offices in the US and the Netherlands. For more than 100 years, we have been trusted to provide strategic IP advice and navigate the complex world of IP for an impressive roster of clients of all sizes, including leading brands and some of the world’s most impressive innovators. We have technical, legal and commercial nous second to none and we combine this with an attitude that makes working together easy.

The Risk & Compliance Manager is a newly established role, taking responsibility for creating and implementing our firm approach to client onboarding together with managing risk, GDPR, regulatory and compliance obligations. The primary focus for this role will be based in our London team and operations but there will be the need to ensure international compliance for our US and Netherlands operations.

• Managing the firm’s regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance and managing relationships with our external regulatory bodies.
• Reviewing and updating processes for client onboarding including AML, conflicts and due diligence.
• Handling our professional indemnity insurance – maintaining detailed records, ensuring compliance as well as acting as the main point of contact.
• Maintaining our risk register – ensuring mitigations are in place and being delivered on as well as assessing any new risks.
• Establishing and managing standardised templates, systems, terms of business and processes.
• Designing and delivering risk and compliance training for all employees.

As an experienced Risk & Compliance specialist, you will thrive in a role that requires both a grass roots strategic approach and operational delivery. In this standalone role, you will have confidence in analysing what best practice processes are required and deliver these across the business. You will be comfortable working with a variety of stakeholders across different business areas, and take a consultative approach to relationship building. You will have gained your experience in a professional services or law firm environment and have a strong working understanding and knowledge of risk, compliance, client onboarding and AML regulations and requirements.

Fiercely committed to diversity and social responsibility, we created the Innovation for All Foundation, which donates 1% of our annual profits to up-and-coming innovators. We were one of the first signatories of the IP Inclusive Charter, making a public commitment to supporting and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the IP professions. Kilburn & Strode is one of just a handful of leading IP firms in Europe ranked in the top tier for both trade mark and patent prosecution in each of the Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Managing IP, IAM Patent, and the World Trade Mark Review listings.