Conflicts Analyst

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Job Title
Conflicts Analyst - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Department
New Business Conflicts and Compliance

Office Location
London or Birmingham

Reports To
Conflicts Supervisor

Working Hours
35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

*Firm Description*
Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London. The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate / Commercial, Disputes, Finance and Real Estate, as well as our Legal Delivery Centre and Business teams.

*Department Description*
Hogan Lovells New Business Conflicts department is charged with investigating legal conflicts of interest and firm business issues. If conflicts of interest or business issues are identified, the department is charged with rectifying those issues prior to the matter being approved by a partner on the Ethics Committee and a firm matter number being opened.

*Role Overview*
This position is responsible for working closely with the New Business Conflicts Supervisor, firm's Ethics Committee, firm attorneys, and other levels of firm administration as well as other members of the New Business Conflicts department in connection with the review of new business to identify and facilitate resolution of conflicts of interest.

*Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities*

• Primarily responsible for the review of new business intake requests and collating the results of preliminary conflicts checks, including resolution and clearance of conflict of interest issues
• Assist with the research of new client matters, including the resolution and clearance of conflict of interest of such matters, as needed
• Assist in coding of engagement letters pursuant to established guidelines and documenting of such actions in the conflicts database
• Assist Attorneys in the identification and resolution of conflicts of interest, which, includes coordinating receipt and documentation of and preparation of engagement letters and client waivers and / or consents
• Assist in securing the approvals of new matters from the Ethics Committee and all other levels of Firm Administration as governed by firm policy guidelines
• Assist Supervisor in training Conflicts Analyst Assistants and Conflicts Analysts
• Exercise proficiency in understanding and utilising the Conflicts Database
• Monitor and track various special interest projects
• Assist the New Business Conflicts department with a wide range of research requests and other projects as may be assigned

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.
All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.
Person Specification
Essential
Qualifications, Experience and Training

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Excel
• Conflicts Researching
• Other Researching Experience
• Conflicts Analysis

General Attributes

Essential

• Resilient
• Ability to multi-task
• Strict attention to detail
• Works well under tight deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Works well in a team environment
• Works well independently

Desired

• Law Firm experience

Agile Working Statement
Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement
It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

All vacancies are open to direct applicants. Recruitment agencies; please be advised that we have a preferred supplier list in place for all roles.