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Head of Legal Practice

2 months ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Candidate Source Full time
Head of Legal Practice

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Legal Practice to join our team at Candidate Source. This role is a fantastic opportunity for a legal professional to take on a leadership position and drive the success of our estate administration and probate services.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Ensure the operation remains compliant with all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements, identifying and escalating risks, dependencies, and issues that could threaten delivery.
  2. Conduct initial reviews and periodic ongoing assessments of all cases, ensuring that risks highlighted and managed with the correct governance have been adhered to.
  3. Oversight of the business complaints-handling procedures and sign off correspondence.
  4. Develop and implement effective and appropriate policies and procedures that meet legal requirements, best practice, and organisational objectives.
  5. Manage succession planning and supervising business continuity planning to ensure in the event of an adverse situation the continuity of service provision.
  6. Act as a key client contact, providing technical expertise via monthly governance, through the provision of expert knowledge to influence operational outcomes and ensuring service levels are in place and adhered to.
  7. Participate actively in the financial performance and budget, identifying opportunities for revenue growth and cost optimisation.
  8. Provide supervision of CASS to administer weekly attestation of compliancy.
  9. Detailed knowledge of inheritance tax rules, accounting, and procedures, as well as Income and Capital Gains Tax compliance in estate administration.
  10. Client service focused.
  11. Risk management experience and data protection knowledge and focus on controls.

About Us:

Candidate Source is committed to equality of opportunity for all hires and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

We are dedicated to providing a safe and supportive work environment for all our employees and clients.