Risk and Compliance Administrator

**Overview**

This is a high-level support role, undertaking many of the tasks set out here and working as an integral member of the Risk & Compliance Team.

**As a Risk & Compliance Administrator, you’ll be responsible for but not limited to;**
- Ensuring compliance with inputting into and updating the firm’s policies and procedures
- Assisting with the administration of the firm’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme accreditation
- Liaising with other central teams and staff across the firm and assisting with projects
- Understanding the firm’s client file management, financial and other systems to guide others
- File opening, closing and management for the team
- First point of contact for “contract support” (contracts with suppliers) from across the firm and liaison with designated lawyers
- Responsible for the accuracy of internal data by proof reading correspondence and documents
- One of the points of contact for the team; ensuring diaries are up-to date, anticipating requirements for example, associated travel /accommodation bookings, meeting rooms, drafting itineraries, preparing agendas, preparing and circulating papers
- Monitoring compliance data and working with compliance champions to reduce outstanding compliance tasks
- Responsible for managing priorities and workloads to ensure deadlines are met

**Who would be a good fit for this role?**

As part of the Risk & Compliance Team, you would be expected to have the following skills and experience:

- An effective communicator with the ability to establish and build relationships across the firm; striving to provide exceptional service at all times
- Proven experience of managing administration services and resources, with a hands-on, practical approach
- Effective at investigating issues and seeing a problem through to conclusion
- Conscientious, taking personal responsibility for own work and accountability for its delivery and quality
- Excellent team player, sharing in team goals to provide excellent quality and efficiency of service, with a willingness to take on new responsibilities and challenges
- Positive can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to change
- Confidential and discreet but able to redirect information when appropriate to ensure areas of concern are resolved effectively
- Well organised and methodical with excellent attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in all client communications and deliverables

**Freeths LLP**

The Freeths Group is one of the UK's leading national law practices. We offer services to both the commercial and private client across the entire legal spectrum.

The firm has a wide range of clients throughout the UK with many clients having strong international connections. We have over 150 partners and more than 800 members of staff in total.

Our client base reflects our nationwide strength and our nationwide service delivery. We are committed to continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success for our clients. We work in close partnership with clients, providing positive, practical solutions and clear, comprehensive advice.

Our aim is to attract and retain the most talented people, and part of this is providing a great place to work. So, to support fairness and equality and to encourage a healthy work-life balance, we continually monitor and improve our benefits.

We are proud that what we have achieved has been recognised over the past few years, being awarded Best Companies star status on a number of occasions and featured in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. We are also a silver standard accredited Investor in People Company, which means we are recognised for our efforts to improve workplace engagement, leadership, personal growth, wellbeing, team working and our impact on society.