Description
Location: London 3 days per week
Duration: 12 month Fixed Term Contract (potential to extend)
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 plus benefits (dependent on experience)
Start: ASAP
At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are problem solvers who draw on collective experience, knowledge and skills to help clients realise value early.
We are reimagining consulting delivery through a human-centred approach, with a focus on meaningful, measurable outcomes across complex environments - particularly within the Legal sector.
Role:
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with Legal Services experience to lead a critical transformation programme within a leading law firm.
This role will focus on the modernisation of Business Acceptance processes, including onboarding new matters and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as conflict checks, AML, sanctions screening, and client due diligence.
This project will involve migration to a cloud-based legal application (e.g. Intapp or similar), alongside process re-engineering to improve control, efficiency, and compliance.
This is a highly sensitive programme, requiring strong stakeholder engagement across legal, risk, compliance, and IT functions
What you’ll do:
The successful Project Manager will be able to demonstrate:
Essential:
What's in it for you?
Company benefits include:
Your Pace team:
Pace is one of Europe’s fastest-growing UK-based management consultancies, transforming the industry with a focus on delivering measurable customer value.
Pace tackles complex challenges across the Legal, Central Government, and National Infrastructure sectors.
By optimising people and systems, we help organisations enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and achieve significant savings in time, cost, and resources.
At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to find out about the great things we’re achieving together and the fun we have as a team.
Location: London 3 days per week
Duration: 12 month Fixed Term Contract (potential to extend)
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 plus benefits (dependent on experience)
Start: ASAP
At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are problem solvers who draw on collective experience, knowledge and skills to help clients realise value early.
We are reimagining consulting delivery through a human-centred approach, with a focus on meaningful, measurable outcomes across complex environments - particularly within the Legal sector.
Role:
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with Legal Services experience to lead a critical transformation programme within a leading law firm.
This role will focus on the modernisation of Business Acceptance processes, including onboarding new matters and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as conflict checks, AML, sanctions screening, and client due diligence.
This project will involve migration to a cloud-based legal application (e.g. Intapp or similar), alongside process re-engineering to improve control, efficiency, and compliance.
This is a highly sensitive programme, requiring strong stakeholder engagement across legal, risk, compliance, and IT functions
What you’ll do:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of a Business Acceptance transformation project within a legal environment
- Manage the migration of legal applications from on-premise to Cloud-based platforms (e.g. Intapp or similar)
- Analyse and redesign processes relating to:
- Conflict of interest checks
- Sanctions screening
- AML and KYC verification
- Client onboarding and matter opening
- Identify and mitigate compliance and audit risks, improving governance and control frameworks
- Work closely with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and IT teams to capture requirements and ensure successful adoption
- Oversee system implementation, testing, data migration, and go-live activities
- Ensure robust project governance, including RAID logs, reporting, and stakeholder communications
- Manage third-party vendors and technology partners where relevant
- Facilitate workshops and drive alignment across senior stakeholders in a complex environment
- Support change management and user adoption for new systems and processes
The successful Project Manager will be able to demonstrate:
Essential:
- Proven experience as a Project Manager within the Legal Services sector
- Strong experience delivering legal technology or application projects (e.g. Intapp, Elite, iManage, or similar)
- Demonstrable experience in cloud migration programmes (ideally from legacy/on-prem systems)
- Knowledge of Business Acceptance, Risk & Compliance processes within law firms:
- Conflicts
- AML / KYC
- Client onboarding
- Experience re-engineering operational processes to reduce risk and improve efficiency
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior legal and business stakeholders
- Experience working in highly regulated, audit-sensitive environments
- Solid understanding of project delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid)
- A proactive, delivery-focused mindset with the ability to navigate complexity
- Experience delivering Intapp implementations or similar legal risk platforms
- Background in Legal Operations, Risk, or Compliance transformation
- Familiarity with data privacy and regulatory considerations in legal environments
What's in it for you?
- An opportunity to work on a high-impact transformation programme within a leading law firm
- Join a high-growth, scale-up consulting firm; we see an opportunity to make a material difference to how clients are served, and are on a mission to create environments that thrive for our clients.
- A dedicated focus on your individual personal development: managed through annual performance appraisals, individual personal development plans, and our bi-weekly ‘continuous conversations’ programme.
- Access to Corporate APM membership benefits and additional professional development through a personal training budget (subject to approval of a relevant business case)
Company benefits include:
- Pace pension scheme
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Private Healthcare*
- Life Assurance*
- Critical Illness*
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme*
- Cycle To Work Scheme*
- Birthday Day off, Paid Volunteer Day off
- Reservist Leave
- Enhanced Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave
- Work from Abroad policy
- Regular company and team events
- Discounted shopping with ADS Rewards
Your Pace team:
Pace is one of Europe’s fastest-growing UK-based management consultancies, transforming the industry with a focus on delivering measurable customer value.
Pace tackles complex challenges across the Legal, Central Government, and National Infrastructure sectors.
By optimising people and systems, we help organisations enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and achieve significant savings in time, cost, and resources.
At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to find out about the great things we’re achieving together and the fun we have as a team.
