MDM Administrator

Kennedys is seeking a skilled MDM Administrator to contribute to the effectiveness of our Financial Operations team based in Chelmsford. The successful candidate will ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance within the Firm's financial system.

Team

Our Finance team delivers precise financial and management information, reporting solutions, and operational assistance to maintain exceptional service standards for internal and external clients. Part of the Business Intelligence unit, our team includes key roles such as the Global MDM Lead, MDM Team Managers, Local MDM Supervisors, and localised MDM SME's and Data Administrators Teams in the UK, India, and the USA.

Key Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for new business intake activities for all national and international offices serviced from the UK
• Undertake conflict searches via the Firm's financial system and via other manual or automated procedures as required by the Professional Practice department
• Regular monitoring of matters with incomplete billing details and take remedial actions as required by the Revenues teams
• Identify potential non-compliance with the Firm's MDM policies and procedures for new clients/matters, and reporting back to the initiator and/or the Risk and Compliance department as appropriate
• Process matter transfers and update matter details (work types, billing details, etc.) as required by fee earners, secretaries and the Financial Operations team.

Required Experience

• Good level of IT skills, including Word and Excel
• Excellent communication/interpersonal skills with a confident telephone manner and strong writing skills.
• Experience in finance systems.

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,500 people worldwide across 45 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What We Have to Offer

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.