New Business Risk Team Leader

Kennedys is looking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic Team Leader to manage our New Business Risk team, responsible for the conflict and risk assessment process during client and matter onboarding across the Firm. The role involves managing the team of analysts to ensure that the service delivery to the business meets expectations to provide elite performance.

Team

The Risk & Compliance team at Kennedys acts as an in-house legal department assisting with regulatory and professional conduct enquiries. It also deals with a wide range of partnership and risk and compliance issues. As part of this, the New Business Risk team specialises in supporting new business intake processes existing across the Firm globally.

Key responsibilities

• Assisting with the testing and launch of Intapp to the business ahead of go-live
• Reporting to the OGC with responsibility for oversee the day-to-day management of the firm's new business risk team based in the UK
• Managing the team in delivering an excellent new business risk process across Kennedys
• Managing conflict escalations and the opening of new matters within Intapp with regard to conflicts and AML
• Acting as an internal consultant to the business, providing advice and assistance in relation to escalated conflicts and AML issues

Required experience

• Experience of leading a team within compliance focused on service delivery
• Previous experience with Intapp in a professional services environment
• Knowledge of conflict rules across the globe, especially in the UK and USA
• Experience of CDD/KYC clearance
• Understand principles and methods of Risk Management
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Proven organisational skills with a proactive attitude
• Be comfortable taking responsibility for decisions and chasing people to ensure delivery in a busy global organisation
• Proficient in the use of Office 365
• Excellent attention to detail

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world 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 do 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, distinctive and ambitious. Our are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes 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.

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