Business Acceptance Manager – Risk and Compliance, UK national law firm, Hybrid
We are working with a national law firm to appoint a Business Acceptance Manager into its central compliance team.
The central compliance team works across all of the firm’s offices and is central to how the business operates. It is responsible for ensuring the firm meets its regulatory and legal obligations on conflicts of interest and the prevention of financial crime. The Business Acceptance Manager will embed the firm’s onboarding processes across the business while keeping its commercial needs in view.
As well as acting as an escalation point for complex queries, the Business Acceptance Manager will take day-to-day responsibility for managing and developing the team, which includes trainees, analysts, specialists and senior specialists. The focus will be on running the function efficiently, so that the firm’s lawyers can concentrate on client work, while maintaining a high standard of compliance across the business.
Why this role?
- A leadership role with scope to lead and develop a team
- Visibility with senior leadership, you would work alongside the Head of Risk and report into senior regulatory compliance leadership
- Scope to shape how the function runs, not just keep it running
- Competitive salary with a flexible benefits package
- Hybrid working across a national office network
What the role involves
You would take day-to-day ownership of the central compliance team, which spans trainees, analysts, specialists and senior specialists.
That means workload allocation, performance, succession planning and genuine development of the people in it not just supervision. Reporting line is to the Senior Manager, Regulatory Compliance, working closely with the firm’s Head of Risk.
Alongside running the team, you would be the escalation point when things get difficult. Complex legal and commercial conflicts. Confidentiality and information barrier issues. Higher-risk financial crime matters such as politically exposed persons, sanctions exposure and high-risk jurisdictions.
You would support the firm’s MLRO and MLCO on complex anti-financial crime escalations covering AML, anti-bribery and corruption and sanctions, and on reputational questions affecting the firm. You would be the gatekeeper on new clients and new matters, weighing them against the firm’s risk appetite, its sector focus and its ethics position.
This role also involves building the function and the short and medium term development plans for the team. This will include embedding processes across the firm, owning the training and development framework, onboarding, technical & regulatory training, contributing to firmwide policies and procedures, risk registers and compliance plans and to wider risk projects across the business.
What they are looking for
Required:
- Proven experience of working at a mid level within a risk and compliance environment in a commercial law firm
- Previous people management experience, including leading, coaching and developing high-performance teams
- Detailed knowledge of AML legislation and the Money Laundering Regulations and being able to apply the knowledge in a commercial context
- Detailed knowledge of SRA rules and legislation affecting solicitors including resolving conflicts of interest
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence and deliver excellent results in conjunction with senior management
Personal attributes:
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, develop and inspire teams
- A collaborative leadership style, fostering an inclusive and supportive team culture
- Ability to identify talent, support career development and build succession capability within the team
- Demonstrates resilience and sound judgement when managing competing priorities and team pressures
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, able to communicate at all levels
- Proven ability to think independently and engage with and influence colleagues at all levels
- Able to work in a fast-paced and demanding environment
- Able to assimilate large amounts of information, extracting key information for high level reports
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills
- Demonstrates commercial acumen and a pragmatic attitude
- Good organisational skills
- Able to adapt and cope well under pressure
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