Conflicts Advisor

Job description / Role

Job Description

The Conflicts Advisor will be responsible for conflicts clearance review and analysis for new business and lateral hires, working directly with the Conflicts Manager, as well as with lawyers and the firm's Conflicts of Interest Committee, to identify and resolve potential ethics and business conflict issues.

This role’s main objective is to ensure the firm is complying with conflict checking rules and procedures when taking on new matters, including the evaluation of conflict search results, following up with lawyers and the Conflicts of Interest Committee as required, and administering and maintaining the firm’s conflicts database/system.

The role also includes assisting with the implementation of Intapp One Place for Risk (Conflicts) other compliance projects and advising on queries across the firm regarding firm policies pertaining to ethics and regulatory compliance.

Duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Assisting with the implementation of Intapp Once Place for Risk (Conflicts).
• Reviewing and analysing conflict search results and approving the clearance of conflicts.
• Preparing communications to lawyers, clearly identifying all potential issues found in conflict reports.
• Escalating complex conflict issues and liaising with the Conflicts Manager or Conflicts of Interest Committee as appropriate.
• Assisting lawyers with the drafting of waiver letters.
• Managing the update of blackbook entries, group companies, outside business interest, secondment arrangements in the conflict checking system.
• Collating and sending out conflicts emails (regularly during the day) to all lawyers.
• Acting as a subject matter expert on conflicts procedures and policies.
• Updating Conflicts of Interest policies and procedures.
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of the firm's conflict checking systems.
• Providing guidance to Conflicts staff relative to conflict research and analysis and corporate family tree research with the goal of ensuring accuracy and consistency in preparation and analysis of conflict reports.
• Participating in providing coverage for conflict checking and analysis via on-call rotation on scheduled weekends.
• Contributing, as required, to projects aimed at improving compliance knowledge across the firm.
• Assisting in development and implementation of training programs for lawyers.

Requirements

Skills and Experience

• The ideal candidate will have minimum of 2 years’ prior conflicts and/or new business department experience in a law firm.
• Strong work ethic and sense of ownership and responsibility
• Enthusiastic self-starter with highly effective communication skills and a strong client service ethic.
• Drives results through teamwork, people, communication and influence
• Comfortable with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict and informed risk taking
• Willingness to make decisions, while ensuring buy in from stakeholders
• Desire for continuous professional development
• Self-motivated
• Organised and systematic

About the Company

MENA Recruit came to fruition in response to a growing need for international legal talent in London and Dubai. Its initial focus began in the Legal sector, evolving as a service provider for other sectors such as Administration, Marketing, Business Development, HR, IT, Finance and C-Suite positions.

Over the last two decades, with roots firmly planted in the Middle East and operations expanding into the APAC region, MENA Recruit has gained intuitive industry knowledge and expertise. With its unique, people-focused approach, the firm has yielded competitive advantage for its clients and rewarding careers for the professionals it has supported throughout the years.

The company is dedicated to delivering the highest quality of talent and service to its clients while working tenaciously towards helping them achieve higher retention rates. For this reason, MENA Recruit is considered by both candidates and clients as a consultant in the truest sense of the word, offering guidance to both people and organizations on how to adapt to the constant change in market conditions and how to anticipate present and future challenges.

Presently, MENA Recruit provides services to organizations and professionals in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

With such an extensive global reach, strong brand value, decades of expertise, and an innovative approach towards business challenges, it’s clear why MENA Recruit is the partner of choice for both in-house recruiters and candidates internationally.