This candidate is a Conflicts of Interest expert with over 5+ years of experience working within a range of different law firms including International and National firms.

They are extremely well-spoken, confident, and intelligent. They would be able to really hit the ground running due to their previous experience managing more junior team members within their current role.

Experience

Conflicts Advisor | Top 30 International Law Firm | 2021 - Present

• Supervising 2 trainees and 2 conflicts assistants, this involves functional line management, as well as more technical matter management in regards to approving Intapp requests and being a general point of escalation for day to day matters.
• Conflicts Advisor reasonable for conducting and analysing matter approvals using Intapp Open, while acting as a direct point of escalation for fee earners providing guidance in relation to conflicts, confidentiality, AML/KYC/CDD and sanction related queries.
• Developing, drafting, and updating firm-wide and internal risk policies and procedures.
• Designing and delivering one to one risk training for new fee earners across the firm's international offices, while developing a stronger dialog between the risk team and wider practice groups.
• Reporting daily statics to senior stakeholders, identifying possible trends, and providing applicable solutions.
• Auditing, supervising and training junior team members within the wider risk team.
• Regularly attending meetings with senior risk lawyers to develop and implement new methods of managing risk while ensuring
efficiency.
• Recently led a joint client procedure project which resulted in the shorting of the firm's joint client matter opening times.

Conflicts Analyst | Top 30 International Law Firm | 2019 - 2021

• Conflicts Analyst responsible for maintaining internal compliance with the SRA code of conduct, conducting conflict searches using Intapp Open combined with oversight of matter level compliance in line with AML and sanctions regulations.
• Responsible for managing a caseload originating from variety of practice groups, in line with individual and team performance metrics whilst supporting fee earners throughout the matter opening process.
• Advised on the continuous improvement of departmental policy, in particular the implementation of a system for the urgent escalation of requests from offices in differing time zones.

Education

LLB Hons (Law)