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We're looking for someone at assistant manager or manager level to enhance and support our growing client take-on team.
Our client take-on team provides a smooth and welcoming on-boarding experience for our clients across all our jurisdictions whilst providing a first line of defence protecting the business against legal, financial and reputational risks. |
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To play a key role in ensuring our client take-on team provide an efficient and timely support service with all aspects of the client take-on process across various practice areas in all our locations, and to motivate and assist with the management and development of more junior staff.
Main responsibilities
- To carry out all aspects of the client take-on process
- Assist the CTO manager with the delegation and coordination of the workflow within the team
- Provide training and mentoring to help develop the team
- Help to organise, participate and contribute to team meetings
- Ensure that team members are trained on how to perform client screening, internet searches and other appropriate checks
- Prepare client/matter files and open the new matter through InTapp
- Assist with training the relevant teams on CDD/databases and systems
- Liaise with clients as appropriate
- Prioritise and track the progress of CDD documentation and matter opening and obtain progress updates from the client or fee earner as appropriate
- Review the work of more junior staff to ensure that regulatory requirements are met
- Ensure that practice areas are supported, trained and educated so that the take- on process occurs efficiently and effectively, to include attending the practice area team meetings as appropriate
- In consultation with the relevant fee earner agree approach to obtaining additional information
- Liaise with members of the compliance team as required for guidance and advice and arrange compliance sign-off of client take on files.
- Ensure the completion of PEP submissions to the PEP/Risk Committee are managed in a timely manner.
- Escalating any issues/risks arising promptly to the fee earner, group partner, compliance team or MLRO as appropriate.
- Ensure an awareness and understanding of local Regulatory requirements of yourself and other team members.
More about you...
Qualifications
- Ideally educated to A-level or equivalent standard
- ICA or other relevant compliance qualification desirable
Knowledge/skills/experience
- An awareness and understanding of local regulatory requirements
- At least 5 years' industry experience.
- Previous experience in a similar role and preferably within a legal environment
- Good technical knowledge relating to Jersey and AML legislation
- Proficient IT skills and literacy
At Bedell Cristin we have a diverse CTO team and each of our team members have developed their own approach to the role. However here are some of the things they have in common:
- Good interpersonal skills are required to develop close working relationships with colleagues and clients
- Strong prioritisation skills and the ability to work under pressure
- Flexibility, energy and enthusiasm
- A solution driven attitude to problems
- The ability to organise and manage workflows and delegate as appropriate
- Ability to work methodically and accurately.
And finally…
A few things which are either required by our industry, or central to the Bedell Cristin culture:
- Adhere to all policies, procedures and regulations including those around anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Commit to fulfilling your personal CPD requirements and to continually develop your skills and knowledge.
- Act in keeping with our core behaviours.
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