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About the Role
Join the Risk and Compliance team to manage regulatory, compliance, and professional risks across CMS. This role involves providing practical guidance, responding to queries, and supporting risk-related processes in collaboration with colleagues across the business. It's an opportunity to influence risk management in a large, international organization while developing your expertise in a supportive team.
Responsibilities
- Respond to queries from the Risk team inbox, supporting colleagues across the firm.
- Provide guidance on the application of the SRA Code of Conduct.
- Support colleagues on compliance topics such as confidentiality, outside interests, share dealing, and anti-bribery and corruption.
- Assist with documentation including auditor requests, supplier agreements, and secondment arrangements.
- Advise on engagement letters and terms of business, including key provisions such as conflicts, confidentiality, and limitation of liability.
- Review and advise on client terms, working with Contract Lawyers where needed.
- Deliver training on risk and compliance topics to support understanding of firm policies and responsibilities.
- Contribute to risk assessments, audits, and internal investigations.
- Support data protection matters, including data breaches and subject access requests.
- Review client file requests in line with firm processes.
- Maintain and improve team processes, systems, and guidance.
- Act as a point of contact for regulatory queries from teams including Conflicts, AML, and Matter Administration.
- Support the resolution of conflicts issues in collaboration with the Conflicts team.
- Provide input on risk considerations when new business is being reviewed.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and support updates to policies and procedures.
- Contribute to wider risk projects led by senior members of the team.
Requirements
- Experience working in a legal or professional services environment.
- Experience in compliance or professional practice regulation.
- An understanding of the SRA Code of Conduct.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- The ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
- A clear and structured approach to problem solving.
- Confidence in communicating with a range of stakeholders.
- Organization and time management skills.
- Experience delivering training or supporting data protection or contract review work would be useful but is not essential.
Skills
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Regulatory guidance
- SRA Code of Conduct
- Confidentiality
- Outside interests
- Share dealing
- Anti-bribery and corruption
- Documentation
- Auditor requests
- Supplier agreements
- Secondment arrangements
- Engagement letters
- Terms of business
- Conflicts of interest
- Limitation of liability
- Client terms
- Contract review
- Training delivery
- Risk assessments
- Audits
- Internal investigations
- Data protection
- Data breaches
- Subject access requests
- File review
- Process improvement
- System improvement
- Guidance improvement
- Regulatory queries
- AML
- Matter Administration
- Legal and regulatory monitoring
- Policy updates
- Procedure updates
- Project contribution
- Relationship building
- Judgement
- Research
- Analysis
- Discretion
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Organization
- Time management
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
Benefits
- Opportunities to build experience within risk and compliance
- Knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
- Flexible, hybrid working policy
- Generous bonus scheme
- Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
- Holiday exchange scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010
About the Company
- CMS is a Future Facing organisation of independent law firms.
- Combines local insight with a broader, international perspective to help clients respond to change and plan ahead.
- Focuses on building strong relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Teams work together to deliver clear, business-focused advice.
- Culture values collaboration, inclusion, and professional responsibility.
- Adopts a Future Facing approach, ensuring clients and people stay ahead in an ever-evolving landscape.
- Global expertise, local insights.
Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.