Junior Solicitor/ Chartered Legal Executive/ Senior Compliance Officer (AML and Financial Crime)

Job Introduction

DACB’s Practice Governance & Risk (‘PG&R’) team is currently recruiting for a junior Solicitor, Chartered Legal Executive or Senior Compliance Officer.  The role is to provide support, assistance and advice to colleagues across our business (both UK and supporting our International offices) in respect of a range of work relating to regulatory, compliance and risk, with particular focus on anti-money laundering, sanctions, modern slavery, tax evasion and anti-bribery compliance. 

Supervision and guidance will be provided by colleagues within PG&R.

Working hours: 35 hours a week.

Although the role sits within the Leeds office, DACB now operates its Flex-Forward way of working, which means the successful candidate will agree with their line manager an appropriate split of time between office and home based working.

Role Responsibility

Duties will include (but not limited to) assisting with the following:

• Raising anti-money laundering, sanctions, modern slavery, tax evasion and anti-bribery awareness across the business;
• Ensuring that anti-money laundering, sanctions, modern slavery and anti-bribery compliance is implemented into all new systems, policies and procedures;
• Horizon scanning for legislative and regulatory changes that may affect our business;
• Taking an active part in the implementation and monitoring of compliance with training requirements;
• Monitoring & auditing of internal business groups, processes and controls to ensure they remain appropriate and robust;
• Advising on internal queries i.e. matters affecting DACB;
• Responding to client and supplier due diligence questionnaires;
• Assisting with the preparation of management information to report on compliance; and assisting the MLRO/deputy MLROs as required.  

The Ideal Candidate

• Legally qualified (if a Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive).
• The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar role or an interest to develop their risk and compliance expertise in the above.
• Previous experience of working in a regulated industry, such as Legal or Financial Services is desirable.
• The role requires discussions with colleagues at all levels within our business. The ideal candidate must therefore have strong communication (verbal and written) skills.
• Ability to analyse information and provide potential solutions in a concise way. 
• Good attention to detail and strong administration is essential.
• The ability to work under pressure and efficient time management to meet business priorities. 
• The ability to work on own initiative and manage own workload.
• A good team player who is supportive of other colleagues.
• Responds positively to change and adapts easily to new processes.
• Good IT skills with a knowledge of Microsoft Office packages although further training can be given if required.
• Flexibility to occasionally travel is required. This could involve staying away from home.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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