Location
MANCHESTER
Salary
Competitive
TypePermanent
WorkplaceHybrid
Ref84640
Legal firm based in the centre of Manchester has an opportunity for a Compliance Analyst to join their risk team and be responsible supporting the firm’s risk management framework with some travel required to other offices.
Skills and experience required
- Law degree or equivalent legal training.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to work independently.
Role details
- Complete procedural file reviews for all areas of the firm.
- Monitoring and actioning alerts and reporting back to fee earners.
- Handling risk & compliance queries from staff.
- Maintain the firm’s SRA records through mySRA, as well as practising certificates for solicitors and other lawyers.
- Completing the firm’s bulking practising certificate renewal exercise.
- Managing the new starter process for the team.
- Delivering risk & compliance induction sessions for all new starters.
- Updating central registers, including the staff list and those registers relating to logging internal breaches.
- Dealing with data protection for the firm, such as data breaches and subject access requests.
- Monitoring logs through the dashboard and maintaining the watchlist; investigating any flagged alerts.
- Assisting in preparation for external assessments, such as Lexcel and CQS.
- Research regarding legal and regulatory changes affecting the firm.
- Liaising with CST and reviewing referral agreements.
- Supporting the risk & compliance team in a variety of day-to-day tasks.
On offer
- Negotiable salary depending on experience.
- A minimum of 25 days’ annual leave (increasing with length of service) plus office closure between Christmas and New Year.
- A one hour early finish, one Friday a month.
- Two days a year to do charitable work.
- The opportunity to get involved in sports teams, hobby clubs, and social events.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Annual promotions process open to all staff.
If you are currently a Compliance Analyst with a legal background and are interested in finding out more details then apply online for immediate consideration.
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