Governance & Risk Team Leader

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is currently a senior analyst in a law firm risk and compliance team, who is seeking to expand their managerial experience and also their skills and experience in this varied generalist role. This is a hands-on role as a member of the busy G&R team who are responsible for the development and maintenance of effective risk management and compliance standards at Capsticks. The primary focus of this role will be managing and supervising routine risk & compliance queries and the work conducted by more junior members of the team. As an experienced professional, you shall be working with senior members of the G&R Team to ensure compliance with the regulatory requirements of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and ICO, whilst developing and maintaining the firm’s accreditations: ISO9001 (quality assurance) and ISO27001 (information security). You will work on short-term queries and several long-term projects at the same time, which means you will need effective communication and workload management, prioritisation and organisation skills, project and stakeholder management skills and an ability to manage competing priorities. You will also be expected to engage firmwide across our offices to promote an understanding of risk to drive the compliance and quality agenda with the objective being to improve our clients’ experience and protect the firm’s interests. The Governance & Risk team leader will report to the Governance & Risk Manager.