CANDIDATE OVERVIEW:

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Educated to bachelor’s degree level (preferably law) or equivalent experience.
• Relevant professional qualification (desirable, not required).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Conflicts Analysis experience or other relevant experience ideally in a law firm or other professional organisations, is preferable.
• Knowledge of Intapp Open or similar systems.
• Able to analyse conflict results and having an understanding of low/medium/high-risk issues.
• Knowledge and/or high-level understanding and ability to apply the SRA Standards and Regulation when dealing with conflicts of interest.

THE ROLE:

The purpose of this role is for Pinsent Masons to remain compliant with relevant legislative requirements while effectively managing commercial conflicts in alignment of the firm’s global strategy and policies.
The role involves ensuring the firm complies with its legal and regulatory obligations in respect to conflict checks and other necessary regulatory checks on all new/existing clients and matters for all offices. The role will involve having an understanding of legal conflict and commercial conflicts, which will aid in making sure all relevant compliance controls and procedures are in place, ensuring that we prevent conflicts of interest and maintain client confidentiality.
Alongside running conflict checks, you will also be supporting on internal projects, wider training, and day-to-day administrative tasks (such as responding to queries on our internal mailbox).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reviewing new matters which are submitted by the business and running conflict checks on new clients and all relevant parties involved in a matter.
• Taking ownership of conflict checks throughout the entirety of the conflict checking process from the initial review through to matter record creation.
• Ability to clear low-medium risk conflict issues, as appropriate.
• Liaising with the relevant lawyers/partners and PAs in connection with queries arising from the conflicts request.
• Accurately analysing information returned via the systems (conflict searches, ownership searches etc) and identifying any potential conflict issues.
• Proactive autonomy on the focus of your capacity dependent on the current requirements of the workflow. Primary duties will include focusing on any urgent conflict check requests, assisting with any requests that have been handed over and managing the conflicts queue efficiently.
• Flagging and escalating potential conflict issues to the Conflicts Investigation Team with a clear and concise analysis of issues flagged and potential outcomes.
• Having a good understanding of the firm’s Conflicts System (Intapp).
• Developing an understanding of the firm’s client base.
• Arranging for the implementation of information barriers, where required.
• Assisting with the lower complexity, higher volume workflow where necessary.
• Managing the internal team inbox where we receive ad-hoc queries from the business.
• Identifying additional high-risk factors such as sanctions and flagging to our internal Risk Team for review.
• Having an understanding of our Engagement Terms policies and liaising with the Client Team where necessary.
• Assisting with internal projects and other duties that may be assigned to fully meet the requirements of the position.
• Supporting the Senior Conflicts Analysts, Managers and Conflicts Investigation Team, as required.