BAU Conflicts Assistant

4 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Addleshaw Goddard Full time

The Business Acceptance Unit (BAU) at Addleshaw Goddard is a dynamic team responsible for conflict checking, client and matter onboarding, and compliance file audit. As a Conflicts Assistant, you will be part of this team, working closely with Assistants, Advisors, and Team Leaders to resolve complex conflict issues and queries.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Process and filter conflict search results, conducting legal and commercial analysis of potential conflict and confidentiality issues.
  • Analyse confidential records to assess relevance and support the General Counsel and Risk Lawyers (GC&R) team in referrals to the Conflicts Committee/Conflicts Partner.
  • Liaise with colleagues, partners, and GC&R in relation to potential issues and general queries.
  • Process all queries received into the team's inbox, including the creation and maintenance of information barriers, processing of extend reports, and other ad-hoc tasks.
  • Monitor in and outbound workflow to ensure internal SLAs are achieved.
  • Compile Management Information (MI) statistics for stakeholders.
  • Undertake project work in relation to BAU workflows, monitoring systems, and controls.

About You:

  • Experience in dealing with conflict check processing or strong knowledge of conflicts gained from a legal role.
  • Strong analytical and research skills with the ability to work with large volumes of data and competing deadlines.
  • Capable of using own initiative with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
  • Excellent service orientation skills, a self-starter with experience of working within service levels.
  • Good communication skills with the ability to communicate appropriately both verbally and in writing.
  • Adaptable and flexible.
  • Proficient in using Microsoft Office software, i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

About Addleshaw Goddard:

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth, and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.

We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them. As such, we are a natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

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