Conflicts Analyst 2025

The firm’s Compliance & Risk team, led by the firm’s General Counsel Susan Rosser, includes 10 lawyers and 2 paralegals advising on all aspects of legal risk, including financial crime compliance, claims, complaints, insurance, engagement terms, contracts, data privacy, SRA STaRS compliance and conduct issues and regulatory engagement.

The firm’s New Business Intake (NBI) team, which reports ultimately to the Director of Compliance, includes the Head of NBI, New Business Intake Managers, Senior Compliance Analysts, Compliance Analysts and Compliance Assistants. Currently, the NBI team runs conflict checks but the relevant Matter Partner is responsible for reviewing and approving the results. However, where a potential conflict is identified, Partners are encouraged to seek further guidance from the Compliance & Risk team. The firm is in the process of implementing a new business intake system using Intapp’s Conflicts and Intake products. As part of this project, the firm plans to move to a more centralised conflicts clearance process, setting up a new team staffed by specialist lawyers and analysts working closely with the NBI team but which will report to the Head of Corporate Risk and ultimately to the General Counsel.

Role context

This role will provide expertise at a junior level in searching, reviewing and clearing conflicts results. It is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team, helping shape our new processes. Given the anticipated rapid growth of the team, it is likely that opportunities for promotion to Senior Analyst would be available for the right candidate once they had gained sufficient experience.

Roles and responsibilities

• Reviewing new business intake requests and collating the results of preliminary conflicts checks, ensuring search terms and corporate hierarchy results are accurate and precise;
• Reviewing and clearing conflicts results;
• Tracking clients with negotiated engagement terms that contain special requirements around conflicts;
• Assisting in keeping the firm’s red and amber client lists up to date;
• Preparing and implementing required screens/firewalls;
• Explaining conflicts issues and proposed solutions to fee-earners;
• Helping train and develop more junior colleagues.

Skills and experience

• Clear understanding of and ability to explain relevant professional rules and guidance.
• Ideally experienced in working for a larger or international firm.
• Experience of US conflicts rules would be useful (as the firm has some fee-earners who are subject to US bar rules) but not required.
• Experience of working with Intapp Conflicts product is not required but would be highly desirable.

Person specification

• Be able to work with minimal supervision and using own initiative
• Able to work effectively with and build strong relationships with colleagues at all levels across the firm
• Able to articulate difficult messages and decisions to the business through effective communication
• High commitment to accuracy and efficiency
• Flexible in approach and responsive
• Ability to organise workloads, work under pressure, and meet deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ambitious about developing a career in law firm compliance

Competencies

• Working in a team
• Integrity and respect
• Resilience and resourcefulness
• Delivery focus
• Client-centric
• Commercial mindset