Job Description

About Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland represents the combination of two firms with a shared culture, values and commitment to client service excellence. We are each known for our commercial awareness and industry knowledge and for providing innovative and tailored solutions for every client.

As a full service law practice, we act for the public and private sector across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the US providing legal advice to clients across the Company Commercial, Employment, Labour & Pensions, Litigation and Dispute Management, and Real Estate practices.

With 70 offices across 30 countries worldwide, we have become one of the largest law practices in the world and a great place to work and develop your career.

The Group

International Operations is fundamental to the success of our organisation, with teams working internationally to provide critical business expertise for our lawyers and our business alike.

We offer fulfilling careers across all areas including Finance, IT, Marketing, HR, Compliance and many more areas. These teams are at the core of our organisation and are key to Eversheds Sutherland\'s continued success as a top 10 global law firm. Whether you\'re starting your career or an established professional we offer a variety of opportunities that allow you to grow in your chosen career.

We are proud of our culture and the values that guide our behaviour: Collaborative, Creative, Professional, Inclusive, Open

These key five values underpin everything we do they, sit at the heart of our culture, define how we behave, individually and collectively, as we work to deliver on our purpose.

We support the learning and development of all our people at Eversheds Sutherland, engaging you at every stage of your career. Complimented by on the job learning, our formal courses support our people to excel in their role

Our firm continues to grow creating exciting, challenging and diverse career opportunities.

The Role

This role sits with the Finance Compliance team within Eversheds Sutherland globally, the core purpose of which is to drive Finance regulatory policy, processes, governance and controls across all areas of the firm, with a particular focus on client money and SRA Accounts Rules compliance.

At a time of significant systems and technology development within the firm, this role will support the compliance change agenda with truly global exposure.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Finance Compliance Manager, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Supporting SRA Accounts Rules compliance of all Finance processes across all entities and jurisdictions globally
• Becoming a key contact of the wider business for SRA Accounts Rules advice and guidance, dealing with client money queries and mitigation of breaches
• Liaising with the Governance & Compliance (Risk) function to ensure alignment of policy and regulatory requirements across processes that impact both Finance and Risk, eg AML, sanctions and fraud
• Preparing key reconciliations relating to financial compliance processes on a regular basis, identifying trends and issues arising, and taking ownership to resolve

Skills and Experience

We are looking for someone with:

• A strong background in finance and finance processes
• A passion for risk or regulatory compliance
• Experience of operating within a professional services environment - legal sector Knowledge or an understanding of client money concepts is highly desirable

Key Competencies

We are seeking the following key attributes:

• Organised and efficient with a \'right first time\' approach to quality of work
• Credibility dealing with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Confidence working within a fast-paced changing environment across complex entities, jurisdictions and systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail
• Pragmatic, robust and resourceful, with the ability to adapt quickly to different situations and personalities
• Able to act on own initiative with a \'can do\' approach, as well as being a highly effective team player
• Strong time management skills and the ability to manage conflicting timescales and demands

Diversity and Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, we recognise that having diverse talent across our business brings many benefits, and we are committed to accessing a wide range of views and thinking in all that we do. A culture of inclusion, where each person feels able to be their true self at work and reach their full potential is key. We recognise that bringing together the perspectives of individuals of all backgrounds, life experiences, preferences and beliefs is critical if we are to serve our global client base, people and communities as a leading global legal practice.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable participation in the recruitment process, please contact us so that we can discuss how best to assist.

We are open to considering flexible working options for our vacancies. Whilst we are not able to offer flexible working across all of our roles, many of our people work flexibly in some way, and we would encourage you to talk to us about this during the hiring process if you would like to explore further.

We are a LGBT+ inclusive employer and are Stonewall Corporate Champions.

Job description

\xc2\xa9 Eversheds Sutherland 2022. All rights reserved. Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP is a limited liability partnership, registered in England Wales, under registration number OC304065, registered office One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. A list of the members\' names, together with those who are non-members, but are designated as partners is available for inspection at the above office, together with details of their professional qualifications.

Eversheds Sutherland is the name and brand under which the members of Eversheds Sutherland Limited (Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) and their respective controlled, managed and affiliated firms and the members of Eversheds Sutherland (Europe) Limited (each an "Eversheds Sutherland Entity" and together the "Eversheds Sutherland Entities") provide legal or other services to clients around the world. Eversheds Sutherland Entities are constituted and regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legal requirements and operate in accordance with their locally registered names. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland, is for description purposes only and does not imply that the Eversheds Sutherland Entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. The responsibility for the provision of services to the client is defined in the terms of engagement between the instructed firm and the client.

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