One of the UK's largest and foremost law firms is currently recruiting for a Legal Regulatory & Change Officer within the General Counsel team.
Offering a salary of up to £35,000 plus excellent benefits including pension scheme, health insurance, critical illness cover, childcare vouchers, plus discounted gym membership. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your experience and build your career within compliance as part of one of the most respected law firms in the UK, recently ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations.
Please note: This is a permanent full-time role. You would work from home or the office, or a combination of the two, as part of the company's flexible working policy. Applications from across the UK will be considered.
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The Role
This is a hands-on role as part of a General Counsel team tasked with providing compliance advice and resolution to the business and its senior employees, ensuring that it is able to meet its regulatory and legal obligations. You would deal with queries with guidance and supervision, escalating to the General Counsel Manager when necessary.
As Legal & Regulatory Change Officer you'll be responsible for delivering legal and regulatory change projects, supporting the team to identify and prioritise legal and regulatory change, and opportunities for business improvement. A key part of your role will be to build strong stakeholder relationships to drive and embed a culture of compliance and effective change across the business, designing engaging regulatory and compliance learning solutions as well as researching and adopting new learning and training methodologies focussing on regulatory requirements.
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The Candidate
- Experience as part of a regulatory and compliance learning environment with client facing experience in areas such as SRA Regulations, Client Care, Conflicts, Financial Crime, Risk Management or Data Protection
- Awareness of SRA rules and/or legislation to assess whether policies and procedures, systems and controls address legal and regulatory compliance
- Experience and familiarity with digital learning solutions and e-Learning design methodologies would be ideal
- Excellent academic background and a thorough understanding of the regulatory environment
- Knowledge of legal procedures and understanding of case management systems
- Able to work on your own initiative, working to resolve straightforward matters as well as collaborating with more senior colleagues to handle more complex queries
- Able to network and proactively build relationships across a range of departments with key stakeholders
- Practical skills in presenting and reporting to senior managers, both in writing and face to face
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The Company
The business you'll be working for is the 11th largest law firm in the UK, founded in 1912 and operating out of 14 UK offices with over 2,500 members of staff. They offer a huge number of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace.
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