Description:

Key Skills:

Core & Technical Skills:

- Legal & Compliance Expertise: Qualified lawyer, or Compliance officer experience (essential). Financial services regulatory knowledge.

- Data Management & Analysis: Ability to handle, interpret, validate, and perform quality control on large volumes of data; create Management Information (MI); macro/micro data analysis.

- Risk & Control Framework: Deep understanding of risk management frameworks (specifically LRR Risk - Laws, Rules, Regulations). Experience in improving controls, procedures, and control environments.

- Policy & Procedure Development: Creating, maintaining, and embedding legal procedures and global inventory processes.

- Technology & Systems: Proficiency with databases (housing LRR inventories), Excel, SharePoint, and the Microsoft Office suite.

- Legal Research & Interpretation: Monitoring legislative changes, interpreting LRRs, and ensuring allocation to relevant policies/controls.

Behavioural & Interpersonal Skills:

- Stakeholder Management: Building networks and collaborating with Business, Chief Controls, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams globally.

- Communication: Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate complex information clearly.

- Problem-Solving & Analysis: Identifying issues/themes, synthesising insights from multiple workstreams, forming strategic conclusions.

- Project & Task Management: Managing competing priorities, delivering consistently, and planning multiple tasks/projects to completion.

- Collaboration & Influence: Proactive cross-team/geography collaboration; ability to influence stakeholders.

- Attention to Detail & Curiosity: Enhancing controls, identifying improvements, and providing appropriate challenge.

- Training & Development: Supporting training programs for legal colleagues on LRR risk management.

Leadership (Vice President Expectations):

- Advising & Influencing: Consulting on complex issues, contributing to policy development.

- Risk Ownership: Managing risk, strengthening controls, and developing new policies/procedures for governance.

- Complex Analysis & Problem-Solving: Using data from multiple internal/external sources.

- Stakeholder Influence: Convincing stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Experienced paralegal, qualified lawyer (or equivalent) and/or experienced Compliance officer preferred.

- We will also consider candidates with experience in data handling and management, including candidates with the ability to analyse, interpret and validate data; perform quality control on large volumes of data; create MI based on business needs; and read and understand data at both macro and micro levels.

- Experience working in the financial services sector within a Legal or Compliance function, or similar.

- Strong capabilities in identifying and tracking issues or themes arising through processes in which the LIM team are engaged in.

- A strong background in the creation of, and curiosity for enhancing, controls and procedures within an organization.

- An ability to identify improvements to a risk and control framework and provide appropriate challenge.

- Ability to assimilate information quickly as well as synthesize insights and inputs from across multiple workstreams and teams on a complex subject matter. Ability to form impartial, effective, and strategic conclusions.

- Ability to deliver consistently and to a high standard against a broad range of competing priorities and to plan and manage a portfolio of multiple tasks/projects through to completion.

- Displays strong interpersonal and communication skills. The ability to build and manage an effective internal and external stakeholder network.

- Excellent Excel and SharePoint skills, confident using the Microsoft Office suite.