Risk & Compliance Lawyer

Are you passionate about a career in Risk & Compliance? We're looking for an experienced Risk & Compliance Lawyer who can help us to successfully deliver the firm’s Risk & Compliance (R&C) strategy. The role encompasses a broad spectrum of R&C activities, with the focus of further embedding R&C into our processes.

You'll work alongside the Risk & Compliance Manager, the Risk & Compliance team and the wider business in identifying and managing the firm's regulatory compliance and professional risks.

We're ideally looking for a qualified solicitor or other legal professional who has a detailed understanding of and significant working experience of the regulatory framework, including the SRA Handbook, regulatory standards and procedures, GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 and other relevant legislation and regulation. Your technical ability will allow you to identify, analyse and evaluate the impact of regulatory and legislative changes on the firm.

We are flexible on location and welcome applications nationwide.

What is the working practice for this role?
Our Risk & Compliance team operate predominantly as a virtual team. Based across several of our offices, on a daily basis the team collaborate with both each other and stakeholders using virtual platforms such as Microsoft Teams. However, we believe that in-person contact is still an important way to build connections with your colleagues, enhancing knowledge and idea sharing. As such, when required, you'll spend time in other offices so as to build an effective and collaborative relationship with the wider team and other key stakeholders.

We believe this approach:
fits with our values and personality;
will enhance our performance through greater flexibility;
advances our ambitions as an inclusive employer – helping you better balance work and family/life commitments;
offers opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint (travel, office services etc.), a key ambition underpinning our corporate sustainability plan.

At Browne Jacobson, we’ve always worked across business and society, and this expertise sets us apart. Social and environmental impact are at the top of our business agenda. We champion fairness, make the complex simple and forge connections between clients to find creative solutions. This is how we improve outcomes for every person, community and business we serve.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Tick on the application form if you’d like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

If you are looking for a new challenge working with a leading law firm, apply today!

If external support is required on a vacancy, a member of the Browne Jacobson recruitment team will release the role to one of our agency partners. We ask that recruitment agencies do not send CVs unless instructed on the role. Please note that any speculative CVs submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by the agency.