Compliance Analyst

Job description

Compliance Analyst

Munich/ Frankfurt/Dusseldorf

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Onboarding new clients and matters, specifically:
• Carrying out money laundering checks and risk assessments to ensure that the firm complies with its obligations under anti- money laundering legislation and the firm's anti-money laundering policy;
• Seeking approval for high-risk clients and matters;
• Carrying out conflict searches and clearing conflicts;
• Carrying out business intelligence searches in respect of clients and matters, including public profiles/websites, electronic screening and other appropriate databases
• Checking and verifying information provided by the requesting teams;
• Arranging for the implementation of information barriers, where required.
• Providing support in relation to regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Dealing with general onboarding enquiries from the business.
• Analysing potential conflicts of interests.
• Building a good rapport with other departments.
• Understanding of the firm's client base.
• Actively participating in team meetings

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.Purpose of the role:The purpose of the General Counsel's Office (GCO) is to "enable safely", meaning that we provide risk, regulatory and legal advice and assistance to the firm so that it can achieve its economic, operational and strategic objectives in compliance with applicable law and within its established levels of risk appetite.This role is part of the Regulatory Team within the GCO and supports its purpose by helping to ensure that the firm complies with its legal and regulatory obligations in respect of AML/KYC, sanctions and conflicts of interests.The Regulatory Team operates on a regional basis and this role will primarily focus on team members local region however, support and assistance is to be provided in all of the jurisdictions in which we operate, where required.