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DACB’s Practice Governance & Risk (‘PG&R’) team is currently looking for a recent graduate to join us as an International Compliance Officer with language skills.

The role is to provide support and assistance to colleagues in our international offices as well as to our PG&R International team with a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: (i) financial crime, (ii) anti-money laundering, (iii) new client acceptance, (iv) horizon scanning, (v) data protection, (vi) information security, (vii) supplier on-boarding, and (viii) risk management.

The team's language capability extends to 5 languages at present, and it would like to increase that capability.

This role is an exciting opportunity for a bilingual/multilingual graduate with an interest to gain experience in the above mentioned areas. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and adaptability to different cultures.

Training, supervision and guidance will be provided by our multinational team.

Working hours: 35 hours a week.

Although the role sits within the Leeds office, DACB now operates its Flex-Forward way of working, which means the successful candidate will agree with their line manager an appropriate split of time between office and home based working.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role. If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact [email protected] in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

• Assisting our international offices with new client acceptance in accordance with our Anti-Money Laundering/Financial Crime policies.
• Carrying out due diligence enquiries into clients, before acceptance and on an ongoing basis, including from a Financial Sanctions perspective (with support and supervision).
• Drafting, organising, distributing and (where applicable) completing due diligence questionnaires for the international offices (which have been requested by clients/ or where we request our suppliers).
• Horizon scanning for legislative and regulatory changes that may affect our international business, and actively putting forward ideas and potential solutions to address them.
• Assisting PG&R with the development and upkeep of the international framework of policies.
• Assisting PG&R, and all offices' Money Laundering Reporting Officers/deputies, and Data Protection Officers as required from time to time.
• Assisting with various aspects of DACB’s ongoing projects to expand its international offering.
• Researching a wide variety of areas in relation to the above listed topics as applicable in various jurisdictions.
• Assisting with the preparation of reports for PG&R and wider DACB management.

Essential

• Enjoy dynamic and fast-paced work.
• Confident and proactive, with excellent organisational skills.
• Able to work under pressure, and efficiently manage time to meet evolving business needs.
• Enjoy research, administration support and new challenges
• Able to analyse complex information, and present findings in a concise way.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good team player who is supportive of others.
• Able to communicate effectively in a second language (Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, or German would be of particular interest).
• Interested in developing risk and compliance expertise.
• Respond positively to change, and adapt easily to new processes and requirements.
• Good IT skills.

Desirable

• Experienced in a similar role.
• Qualified to degree level education (in any country).

Advantageous

• Familiar with Microsoft Office packages (further training will be given, if required).

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are. We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our recruitment team can be contacted at [email protected]