Business Acceptance Analyst

Business Acceptance Analyst

A new and exciting Business Acceptance Analyst opportunity has just become available with a well-known Global Law Firm. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a Business Acceptance Analyst looking for a new challenge.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for day to day tasks relating to all aspects of Client and Matter Inception process

• Assisting the Business Acceptance Team in answering various ad hoc queries that come into the Team's inbox

• Determining any applicable conditions upon which mandates can be accepted or continued.

• Undertaking client due diligence checks, and determining the nature and level of due diligence required in order to comply with Anti-Money Laundering Regulations

• Using databases, external and internal and conducting research as part of this due diligence

• Assessing the risk profile of new and existing clients and matters and escalating issues appropriately

• Providing support to the practice on general compliance matters such as share dealing, confidentiality obligations, outside interests, anti-bribery and corruption

• Providing advice to fee earners and secretaries on Anti-Money Laundering, general inception, and conflicts queries.

• Carry out conflict searches and be able to identify, and escalate appropriately, any conflict issues arising out of searches undertaken or reviewed

• Responsible for ensuring appropriate information barriers are created, amended and maintained, whilst ensuring that any issues arising out of the information barrier process are flagged to supervisor and business as required.

Essential Skills

• Educated to degree level.

• Experienced in compliance, ideally gained a law firm

• Attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate records.

• Proven ability to solve problems in a methodical, practical way and provide solutions to client issues

• Experience in Anti-Money laundering and/ or Conflicts, preferably in an international law firm, would be ideal

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• A high standard of written and oral communication

• PC literate with a good working knowledge of MS Office, e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

• Ability to adapt to new processes and technology

• Knowledge of applicable anti-money laundering regulations.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Responsive to the demands of lawyers and the ability to work under pressure.

If you are career focussed and want to take the next step, this Business Acceptance Analyst role is for you.

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