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.
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