Legal Compliance Manager (Law Firm)
Location: Coventry and Warwickshire
Salary Range: £40,000 to £50,000 per annum, commensurate with experience
We are proud to partner with a long-established, Legal 500-listed, Lexcel and CQS accredited law firm who are seeking a skilled compliance professional to support their COLP, MLCO and management team across two offices.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a firm with a strong reputation for excellence, where you can make a significant impact on their compliance and risk management functions.
The role will involve:
- Supporting the Compliance Officer for Legal Practice (COLP), the Money Laundering Compliance Officer (MLCO), and the management team in managing risk and ensuring regulatory compliance with the firm’s policies, plans, and procedures
- Attending and making a valuable contribution to compliance meetings
- Conducting file reviews, analysing data on risk management, including complaints, claims, client feedback, conflicts, breaches etc
- Regularly reviewing, updating, and amending the office manual, compliance policies, and procedures, ensuring adherence to Lexcel requirements
- Supporting the annual Lexcel re-accreditation process
- Assisting with the renewal of professional indemnity insurance
- Assisting with anti-money laundering compliance
- Working closely with the Complaints Officer to resolve client complaints
- Supporting the maintenance of SRA recognition/authorisation and renewal of solicitors' practising certificates.
- Leading compliance training sessions, ensuring solicitors meet SRA competence requirements
Suitable candidates will have:
- Experience of working in a compliance role within an SRA-regulated law firm
- Strong organisational, drafting, communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
- A sound understanding of SRA Standards and Regulations, and Money Laundering Regulations
- An understanding of Lexcel regulations (preferred)
- High levels of integrity and discretion
This is a full-time, permanent position working from 9am to 5.15pm, Monday to Friday, across two offices, with hybrid working options available.
Benefits include:
- Hybrid working options
- 23 days’ annual leave, rising to 28 with length of service
- Your birthday off as an additional paid leave day
- Christmas shutdown
- Free parking
- Private medical care on completion of probation
- Long service awards
- Pension scheme
- Regular in-house compliance training
- 100% funding for Professional Memberships and Practising Certificates
- Opportunities to participate in charity fundraising events
- Free or subsidised legal services
- Company sick pay
- Excellent career development opportunities
If you have the experience and are ready for an exciting new challenge, we would love to hear from you!
Note: The salary range provided is given as a guideline, in line with market rate, and will be wholly commensurate with experience. All information provided is correct to the best of our knowledge.
For more information, please contact Tracey at Talentwise Solutions Legal Recruitment
About Talentwise Solutions Legal Recruitment
Talentwise Solutions Legal Recruitment is a family-run, boutique recruitment agency specialising in legal professional and legal support jobs throughout Coventry and Warwickshire, Birmingham and the Midlands.
We offer a tailored service, to find the right role and the right cultural fit for our candidates, and rest assured we will never forward your CV to any firm without first gaining your consent.
About Your Consultant
Tracey is the Owner and Director of Talentwise Solutions Legal Recruitment, where her focus is on offering a prestigious, consultative, open, and honest service – the way she believes recruitment should be!
Tracey’s passion for recruitment in the legal sector goes back over thirty years, and today it’s stronger than ever. Tracey prides herself on her personalised approach to recruiting and will be on hand to guide you through every stage of the process from initial application through to job offer. You know your career is in great hands with Tracey’s experience and expertise.
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