Conflicts Professional

2 weeks ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom Addleshaw Goddard Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and analytical individual to join our Business Acceptance Unit (BAU) as a Conflicts Assistant. As a key member of the team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the Firm's compliance with regulatory obligations by processing and analysing conflict searches, implementing and maintaining Information Barriers and Insider Lists, and dealing with general client and matter inception queries and engagement letter maintenance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Process and filter conflict search results, conducting legal and commercial analysis of potential conflict and confidentiality issues, and reporting key issues to partners, fee earners, or the OGC team.
  • Analyse confidential records to assess relevance and support the OGC team in referrals to the Conflicts Committee or Conflicts Partner.
  • Liaise with PAs, fee earners, partners, and OGC 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 relevant reports, and other ad hoc tasks, dealing with compliance-related queries with supervision.
  • Undertake project work in relation to BAU workflows, monitoring systems, and controls.
Requirements
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to deal with high volumes of information and understand complex areas of law and apply relevant legal and commercial knowledge.
  • Knowledge of and understanding of how to apply the SRA Code of Conduct 2019 (specifically paragraph and Market Abuse Regulations (MAR)).
  • Interpersonal skills, with the confidence to liaise with partners and other stakeholders to provide advice on legal and commercial issues, regulations, and firm policy.
  • Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to work under pressure while managing competing deadlines.
  • Initiative, prioritising, and promptly responding to requests/queries, addressing concerns, anticipating additional needs.
  • Delivering results and providing proactive solutions to difficult issues.
  • Proficient use of Microsoft Office Software (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), with previous experience of using Intapp being preferable.
About Us

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, making us a natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

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.

Our approach is to imagine the best you can be, and we invest in our people to help them achieve their full potential. Here, you'll do high-calibre work with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients. Are you up for the challenge?



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