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This London-based role offers global coverage for an individual passionate about law, regulation, risk, compliance, and ethics, who is eager to develop a stimulating career within a dynamic corporate environment.
The role sits within WPP’s Business Integrity team (part of WPP’s Legal function) and reports to the WPP General Counsel Corporate Risk, based in London, who in turn reports to the WPP Group Chief Counsel.

Key responsibilities include supporting the WPP Group Chief Counsel and General Counsel Corporate Risk on the following:

• Advising and supporting WPP companies on day-to-day legal risk and regulatory queries and requests.
• Providing guidance on and managing governance and regulatory matters related to compliance, ethics, and legal risk elements of employee affairs.
• Ensuring effective and efficient policies and procedures are in place, understood, and respected by all employees, and that WPP’s resources, systems, and processes align with these policies and regulatory requirements.
• Identifying and analysing current and emerging legal and regulatory risk issues across WPP, investigating policy breaches and violations of applicable external laws, regulations, and codes, and devising and implementing mitigation and remediation actions.
• Driving our global risk management strategy, including through WPP’s risk committee structure, and cultivating a robust resilience culture.
• Collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across WPP to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks and uncertainties.
• Ensuring WPP’s risk appetite, governance requirements, and applicable regulator expectations are understood and respected by WPP staff.
• Advising and guiding WPP staff on a range of risk matters with a particular focus on business integrity topics, including compliance, ethics, respect in the workplace, anti-bribery & corruption, and gifts & hospitality.
• Developing and maintaining precedents, best practices, and data sets that comply with company policies and local law, for use across WPP.
• Managing external law firms and other professional advisors.