Position Overview & Specifications
LONDON - EXCHANGE HOUSE/SQUARE
THE OPPORTUNITY
Key Internal Relationships:- Head of Financial Crime
- Financial Crime Manager
- Senior Financial Crime Advisers
- Financial Crime Analysts & Junior analysts
Key Responsibilities:
- The primary focus of this role is to carry out client due diligence on the firm's existing client base as part of a key on-going firm project. This will include:
- Being trained on anti-money laundering processes & undertaking client due diligence using a variety of different research tools;
- Researching the firm's existing client base, with a particular focus on its ownership & control structure and identifying any financial crime red flags;
- analysing each new client to understand any potential financial crime and/or reputational risks and assigning an appropriate risk rating;
- Ensuring that the firm's Practice Management system is maintained with accurate and timely data for client and matter transactions
- Creating and maintaining on-line resources
- Assisting in the preparation of team reports
- Administrative tasks.
- Supporting and participating in discrete projects as needed (e.g. assisting in the response to regulatory requests).
- Any other duties as required.
Please note, the work in this role would not constitute "qualifying work experience" for the purposes of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Degree educated or similar level
- LPC qualified desirable
- Previous paralegal experience desirable (with a preference for experience in a City practice)
Competencies:
Personal Leadership
- Takes pride in their work and positively impacts those around them
- Inspires confidence by consistently delivering quality work
- Maintains composure under pressure by finding ways to manage their reactions to challenging situations
- Behaves consistently with the firm’s values and brand and inspires this in others
Connects and Collaborates with People
- Takes an active interest in others and gets to know the people they interact with
- Treats people with respect and in a fair and consistent way
- Adopts a positive communication style, even when challenged by others
- Enthusiastic and positive team player who is able to cope with conflicting demands and meet challenging deadlines
Contributes to the Success of Others
- Maintains an awareness of the firm’s purpose, objectives and structure
- Recognises how their work contributes to and affects the work of others, and prioritises and communicates accordingly
- Identifies opportunities to assist others and readily volunteers their help
Enhances the Client Experience
- Finds ways to enhance the experience of the firm’s clients through their daily tasks.
- Shows a willingness to go the extra mile to deliver great service.
Achieves Results
- Goes above and beyond to contribute to the success of the firm
- Consistently ensures a high level of quality and accuracy in their work
- Suggests new ideas or ways of doing things in a confident, constructive and sensitive way
GROUP / TEAM
General Counsel & Risk
GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION
General counsel and risk is a multi-disciplinary legal and analytical team. It consists of an internal legal services team, risk and compliance lawyers, internal audit, information security, enterprise risk and new business intake. These disciplines work together globally to ensure that we fulfil all our governance, contractual regulatory and compliance obligations. The general counsel and risk team also advises on the firm's risk profile and risk-based decisions.
The team also supports the executive and governance boards, manages the firm’s insurance matters and has responsibility for implementing the firm's client and matter selection strategy.
It advises our partners and lawyers to ensure that Herbert Smith Freehills remains a highly trusted advisor in a constantly changing world, and works with our Business Services professionals in managing risk on behalf of the firm and enabling high quality strategic and risk-based decisions to be made.
ROLE TYPE
Business Services
CONTRACT TYPE
Fixed Term Contract
WORKING PATTERN
Full Time
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.
Herbert Smith Freehills