We are recruiting for a Junior Conflicts Advisor in our Can I Act team, based in our Bristol office.
We are seeking a Junior Conflicts Advisor to join the Can I Act team, supporting the firm on client and matter take-on. The successful applicant would be based in our Bristol office.
The Can I Act team supports the business on conflicts clearance, client and matter inception, as well as a range of other business protection processes, including lateral hire onboarding, screening and advising on a range of conflict-of-interest queries.
You will have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday and private medical insurance.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Graduate with at least 1 year’s experience in a risk and compliance function with a focus on conflicts of interest.
• Good working knowledge of professional conflicts rules in England and Wales required, additional knowledge Scotland and Northern Ireland conflict rules desirable.
• Experience in using Intapp or a similar onboarding tool is preferred.
• Practical knowledge and experience of preventing, identifying and managing conflicts of interest.
• Good attention to detail.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to manage workload, including prioritising tasks and requests, and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and an ability to build and maintain relationships with all members of the Firm.
• Commercially minded with strong analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills

Your primary responsibility will be to investigate and make decisions on whether new mandates to be undertaken by the Firm, can be accepted in the context of current conflicts and other compliance issues, taking into account legal/regulatory requirements, internal policies as well as reputational and commercial conflict implications.

In addition, this role will involve:

• Support on conflict queries from the legal teams.
• Provide valuable and reliable conflict advice and support to legal teams, assisting in reviewing conflict search results and responding to queries in connection with conflict searching and analysis of conflicts risk.
• Review and analyse conflict reports, determining any actual or potential, legal or commercial conflicts of interest or confidentiality issues.
• Checking new instructions to establish if they can be accepted in the context of conflicts and other conduct rules and the firm’s own risk appetite and policies.
• Investigating changes to existing instructions to determine if they present any conflict issues for the firm.
• Liaising with both partners and fee earners to resolve any conflicts of interest issues arising on matters whose scope has changed since original conflicts clearance.
• Identifying any applicable conditions upon which mandates can be accepted or continued.
• Investigating information contained in the Firm’s conflict management systems.
• Supporting the wider team with implementation of information barriers,
• Dealing with ad hoc questions/queries from Partners and lawyers relating to conflicts of interest and other engagement risk issues.
• Escalating complex conflicts queries to the senior members of the Risk team as appropriate and in line with the firm’s escalations procedures.
• Provide practical support to the business when obtaining informed consent where applicable and managing information barriers.