Legal and Compliance Analyst/ Assistant

This role would suit a paralegal with good number of years working in private practice as a paralegal focusing on conveyancing work.

Client Details

Our client is an ever evolving business focusing on providing the legal sector (and other sectors) with software and service solutions. They have a rich heritage and have an inclusive and thriving culture and excellent employee reviews on Glassdoor. They enjoy developing their people and giving the best working life possible to ensure people get enjoyment out of their work and are proud to be part of their business.

Description

Working closely with the Product Team, the Legal & Compliance Analyst will be expected to examine and translate laws, official guidelines, precedents and existing working practices ("legal changes"). The research must be thorough and meticulous in order to provide comprehensive and astute analysis which can then be turned into practical business workflow processes and legal content for their property suite of workflows (notably Sale, Purchase, New Build, Remortgage, Equity Release, Lease Extension).

Your legal domain expertise and experience will be essential in providing escalated support and assistance to customers who have legal business process queries.

The role will involve:

• Reviewing all current law and working practices and identifying necessary changes to keep our existing conveyancing workflows up to date and best in class. Interpret and document any changes required so that they can be programmed by our development or workflow configuration teams.
• Ensuring that all regulatory changes (Conveyancing Quality Scheme, SRA, Lexcel, etc.) are captured and translated into business processes which can be understood by our business analysts, developers or workflow configuration teams.
• Ensuring that their extensive legal precedent letters and document library is current and up to date at all times by drafting appropriate correspondence, legal templates, and precedents. All drafting must stand up to extensive peer review.
• Providing support to the product delivery and training teams where necessary to assist customers with their adoption and transition to using our workflows. This may involve occasional visits to customer sites to understand customer's business processes and to assess how they can be adapted to work with our products.
• Regularly reviewing existing workflows and proposing improvements in legal content, functionality and usability.
• Identifying and recommending changes to the workflow that will assist customer firms in adhering to compliance.
• Analysing and documenting (including flowcharts in diagrammatic form) the business requirements of law firms when we build product features and implement new workflow content. This analysis will often involve direct customer and third-party contact including on occasion visits to third party / customer offices.
• Keeping up to date at all times with industry changes and ensuring the business is informed in advance of anything that may affect our products and services.
• Creating user stories for our workflow configurators to customise content. Testing and ensuring that changes made meet the acceptance criteria added as part of the "user story".

Profile

We are looking for an effective communicator who is autonomous, innovative with the ability to identify, isolate and resolve complex problems. You will also have/be:

• Professional Qualification (eg Solicitor/Fellow of Legal Executives) OR Extensive experience in dealing with property matters (mainly Conveyancing)
• Proficiency in researching and translating statutes and official guidelines.
• Ability to draft letters and legal precedents to a professional standard.
• Experience of dealing with legal compliance and improving processes
• Knowledge of legal research processes
• Experience dealing with case management systems

Job Offer

• Competitive salary
• 25 day's holiday, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year
• Free parking
• Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity/development opportunity of your choice
• Cycle to Work scheme and Gym Flex scheme
• Internal coaching/mentoring system throughout your career
• Focus on training and career progression
• Family friendly policies
• Flexible working and ability to work from home up to 2 days a week, potentially 3 on occasions (the whole company is currently working remotely until further government guidance is communicated)