Compliance Assistant

G2 Legal Limited ,
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £18,000 per annum

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced legal compliance assistant to join a well-respected, award winning law firm based in Manchester City Centre. You will be working within a busy Compliance Team and will be required, for this particular Manchester based role, to have previously worked within a similar role in a law firm and have excellent knowledge of the legal market and a passion for client service. As the Legal Compliance Assistant, your duties will include: - responsibility for the file opening for the firm’s partners to include opening all new matters within the firm; this includes assessing the risk profiles of new and existing clients and third parties - conducting due diligence searches. This includes ascertaining the nature of an entity’s role in a transaction and producing corporate trees to ascertain beneficial ownership and subsidiary holdings - assisting the Compliance Team with day to day queries from the partners, resolving issues and liaising with the partners accordingly - assisting the compliance team to ensure that any risks are reported - identifying any conflicts and ensuring internal processes are correctly followed - other compliance projects and duties as assigned within the team