Conflicts Analyst

Overview

Department/Division
:
Risk and Compliance
Duration
:
Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Location
:
London
Reports to
:
Senior Conflicts Officer Team Leader
Direct Reports
:
None
Type of Role
:
Hybrid/Remote
Budget Responsibilities
:
No

The Team

Risk management and regulatory compliance are critical to our organisation and are increasingly complex. To meet these challenges, we have a dedicated Risk and Compliance (R&C) function. R&C work to ensure that legal and professional practice across Dentons is conducted in a professional, compliant, and risk-based manner balancing our ethical obligations with business needs.

R&C comprises two dedicated teams – Conflicts and Anti Money Laundering. It is staffed with more than 40 compliance professionals based in London, Warsaw, Dubai, Doha, Glasgow and remotely in the UK.

Conflicts Analysts ensure Dentons is compliant with the applicable legislative requirements alongside appropriately managing commercial and business conflict risks in line with Dentons global strategy and conflicts policies. This involves making sure effective compliance controls and procedures are in place, to ensure the avoidance of conflicts of interest and the protection of confidential information.

• Reviewing and clearing medium complexity conflict checks, this includes managing legal and commercial issues across the Dentons network and the consideration of potential business conflicts in line with Dentons global strategies.
• Taking ownership of conflict checks throughout the entirety of the conflict checking process from the initial review through to matter record creation.
• Providing clear and concise escalations to the Team Leaders and the Senior Conflicts Manager where required.
• Working alongside the Client Terms Team in the analysis of engagement terms, Including providing input on the potential impact of any bespoke conflict terms from a commercial and strategic perspective.
• Identifying sanctions related issues and escalating as required to the Financial Crime Team.
• Adhering to Dentons' internal compliance policies and procedures.
• Using the Firm's global conflicts and new matter opening system and other internal/external systems to review and analyse data.
• Leading on discussions with both lawyers and partners to ascertain the presence of any legal, commercial or confidential information conflicts, and if so possible resolutions. These discussions can relate to highly complex transactions and related matter conflicts in which the relevant stakeholders may possess differing views to one another.
• Ensuring internal conflict flags are up to date and relevant.
• To help ensure that the daily workflow is progressed in a timely manner and in line with SLA.
• Dealing with the ongoing management of matters.
• Assisting with the lower complexity, higher volume workflow where necessary.
• Assisting with Department Projects and Initiatives.
• Helping with other duties that may be assigned to fully meet the requirements of the position.
• Supporting Team Leaders, Managers, and Global Heads as required.

Required experience, skills and attributes

Technical skills

• Educated to bachelor's degree level (preferably law) or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Relevant conflicts and confidential information experience, preferably acquired in an international law firm, although other professional/financial services firms will be considered.
• Knowledge of Elite/3E and Intapp Open or similar systems.
• Knowledge, understanding and ability to apply the SRA Standards and Regulation, Law Society of Scotland Rules, The Law Society of Ireland Code of Conduct and the Dubai International Finance Center (DIFC) requirements. Confidence in providing Guidance on these regulations when dealing with conflicts of interest.
• Able to recognise when the conflicts rules of other jurisdictions will be applicable, e.g. the US conflict rules of the American Bar Association.
• Able to analyse medium to high difficulty legal issues and produce accurate and reasoned opinions on a range of regulatory issues.
• Awareness and understanding of the following regulations.
• Data Protection Act 1998 and…