Compliance Assistant

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Newcastle, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 950 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

**Job role**: Compliance Assistant

**Hours**: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (35 hours per week)

As the winner of two Working Families’ awards for ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Recruitment 2022’ and ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

**Team**: Finance Operations

**Location**:Liverpool

**Benefits**: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

- 25 days’ annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment

**Role overview**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Compliance Assistant to join a small, niche team in anti-money laundering. You will support our centralised Compliance team, primarily servicing our UK and international client on-boarding processes.

This is an interesting global role where you will build key relationships with internal clients, dealing with fee earners in our UK and international offices including Hong Kong and Singapore. The role is heavily regulated and you will need to follow standard operating procedures.

You will work closely with the Compliance manager, Compliance Team Leader and senior compliance assistant who will provide full Compliance training for this specialist, niche role. This is a superb career opportunity for anyone looking at a vocation within the Compliance area.

Knowledge of anti-money laundering regulations is desirable but not essential, as full training will cover this area. Importantly an appetite to learn and contribute to the compliance risk based function is the key driver.

**Key responsibilities within the first 6 months**:

- Assisting the client on-boarding processes by incepting new clients or amending existing records, performing searches and conflict checks in accordance with Compliance and Anti money laundering regulation and internal protocols
- Assisting with the creation and maintenance of client records; opening client records within service delivery time scales
- Assisting with projects as and when required
- Liaising with other departments to request information / documentation in accordance with Regulation/procedure
- Assisting with general data maintenance - amendments / deletions
- As and when required, assist with other Finance Operations functions and assist with data quality exercises

**Key responsibilities as the role develops**
- Sanctions screening
- Assisting with Anti-Money laundering compliance and due diligence checks, including international client due diligence and international client inception vetting
- Supporting the team with service reviews as and when required to aid any compliance issues or service delivery reporting
- Assisting with team reporting
- Supporting the business with enquiries and queries
- Assisting management with routine Compliance enquires whenever required
- Monthly reporting to Senior Compliance Management
- Assisting with AML risk assessments

**What are we looking for**:

- Essential_
- Proven experience of working in a busy office environment
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to follow processes and complete work within a set timeframe
- Ability to work well under pressure and to meet strict deadlines
- Demonstrable excellent communication and organisational skills
- Desirable_
- Previous experience in a law firm or professional services
- Previous compliance experience

**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability,