Conflicts Advisor

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Conflicts Advisor to join the Can I Act team, supporting the firm on client and matter take-on. The Can I Act team supports the business on client and matter inception, as well as a range of other business protection processes, including lateral hire onboarding, screening and advising on a range of conflict of interest queries.

Your primary responsibility will be to investigate and make decisions on whether new mandates to be undertaken by the Firm can be accepted in the context of current conflicts and other compliance issues, taking into account legal/regulatory requirements, internal policies as well as reputational and commercial conflict implications. You will be an escalation point and point of contact within the wider team, supporting on more complex conflicts queries. In addition, this role will involve:

• Be the first port of call for any conflict queries from the legal teams.
• Provide valuable and reliable conflict advice and support to legal teams, assisting in reviewing conflict search results and responding to queries in connection with conflict searching and analysis of conflicts risk.
• Review and analyse conflict reports, determining any actual or potential, legal or commercial conflicts of interest or confidentiality issues.
• Checking new instructions to establish if they can be accepted in the context of conflicts and other conduct rules and the firm’s own risk appetite and policies.
• Investigating changes to existing instructions to determine if they present any conflict issues for the firm.
• Liaising with both partners and fee earners to resolve any conflicts of interest issues arising on matters whose scope has changed since original conflicts clearance.
• Support more junior team members in relation to any mentoring or support regarding conflicts queries.
• Dealing with complex conflicts queries in line with the firm’s escalations procedures.
• Identifying any applicable conditions upon which mandates can be accepted or continued.
• Investigating information contained in the Firm's conflict management systems.
• Establishing information barriers and dealing with ad hoc questions/queries from Partners and lawyers relating to conflicts of interest and other engagement risk issues.
• Provide practical support to the business when obtaining informed consent where applicable and managing information barriers.
• Managing and advising on insider lists.
• Supporting and liaising with the wider risk team in relation to managing engagement risks, and assisting with engagement letter queries.
• Liaising with Bids and Marketing with regard to bids and tenders the firm is responding to.
• This includes supporting in drafting conflicts submissions and advising on commercial conflicts issues.
• Maintenance of blackbook within intapp.
• Support CIA manager with ad hoc projects.
• Assist with the preparation of training materials and deliver training for team members and legal teams.
• Assist with drafting, updating and maintaining conflicts-related documentation, including policies, procedures and templates, as well as other internal communications.

Your Skills and Experience

• Graduate with a minimum of 4 years’ experience in a risk and compliance function with a focus on conflicts of interest.
• Extensive knowledge of professional conflicts rules in England and Wales required, additional knowledge Scotland and Northern Ireland conflict rules preferred.
• Experience using Intapp or a similar onboarding tool is preferred.
• Practical knowledge and experience of preventing, identifying and managing conflicts of interest.
• Good attention to detail.
• Ability to work as part of a team, mentoring and supporting junior colleagues as need be.
• Ability to manage workload, including prioritising tasks and requests, and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and an ability to build and maintain relationships with all members of the Firm.
• Commercially minded with strong analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills.

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role. TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible.