Risk & Compliance Assistant at top UK Law Firm: to £30,000

A prestigious UK Law Firm is looking to hire a new Risk & Compliance Assistant to join the London office on a permanent basis to assist the legal team in every aspect of their work. Responsibilities will include becoming familiar with the firm's Risk & Compliance policies, advising when these fall due for review and updating the firm's intranet and other software, populating and maintaining the firm's Risk and Compliance software, maintaining the records of the Risk and Compliance team, including the training and induction logs of risk and compliance training, undertaking Worldcheck searches on new matters and liaising with the matter team on these when appropriate, monitoring interim open matters with a view to ensuring that they become fully opened within the timescales/criteria set by the firm, assisting the Data Protection Manager with the maintenance of our data protection records, generally assisting with administrative and other tasks and the maintenance of records on behalf of the team, the emphasis is on team working and co-operation to give partners and lawyers the fullest possible support.  Candidates ideally need to have previous risk & compliance experience or data protection experience or previous experience working as a Paralegal.  In addition candidates need to have strong written, organisational and communication skills.