Analyst, Business Acceptance - 12 month FTC

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity:

Working as part of our global Risk & Compliance function, the Business Acceptance team is responsible for ensuring the firm is protected from reputational, legal, and commercial risks. This includes analysing all new clients and matters to identify and resolve legal and commercial "conflicts of interest", ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering and counter- terrorist financing (AML/CTF) obligations, and meeting international regulatory requirements for sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and client- related negative press.

The role is ideally suited to an individual with a clear and confident communication style, strong analytical and research skills, and a desire to work collaboratively with a dynamic and motivated team. The successful candidate will have a keen eye for detail, an interest in current affairs, and the ability to work well under pressure. A legal qualification is not essential, but problem solving, professionalism, and sound judgement are key.

You will join a global team with colleagues across Glasgow, London, Dubai, Singapore, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand, working together to provide risk and conflicts clearance that supports partners and clients alike in their pursuit of exciting deals across the globe.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Research relevant information sources and international databases to compile documentation needed to verify the identity of clients of the firm.
• Analyse sufficiency of identity documentation in the context of global firm policy, local anti-money laundering laws, and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of the data being entered into the conflicts and risk databases.
• Compose extensive written risk assessments, including technical analysis of money laundering, bribery, reputational, and sanctions risks, with reference to sectoral and jurisdictional risks and FATF-identified risk typologies.
• Analyse information in the firm's conflict management systems and other databases/sources and liaise with lawyers to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest relating to new clients and matters across all practice areas of the firm worldwide.
• Use research skills to identify and verify clients, third parties, and assets involved in new business requests.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract, based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working.

About you:

• Experience in a Risk and Compliance function within the professional services sector, ideally within a law firm or large corporation
• Degree qualified in Law, Risk Management, Business, Politics, economics, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to undertake relevant research and analyse complex information.
• An interest in the work undertaken by a corporate multinational law firm.
• Strong interpersonal skills required to engage all levels of legal, including Partners and other Firm Management, and support staff.