Ashurst Perkins Coie
Director, Regulatory Risk
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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
We are looking to hire a Director to join our Regulatory Risk team in our London office. You will be an integral member of a team delivering regulatory, risk and compliance advice and solutions to clients across a variety of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, energy, retail, corporate and government.
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Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Advising clients on the development and implementation of risk frameworks, the assessment of risk programs, and the design of controls and controls testing and uplift
- Designing and implementing regulatory engagement strategies and regulatory change and compliance programs
- Overseeing the successful delivery of engagements, including onboarding teams, designing delivery and implementation strategies, managing client relationships, monitoring profitability and budgets, and supervising/coaching the team
- Taking a key role in business development activities, such as designing and running campaigns, developing client plans, developing and managing bids/proposals, conducting thought leadership, and building internal networks
- Contributing positively to the culture, growth and development of the Risk Advisory practice and Regulatory Risk team globally
This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.
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More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site
About You
The successful candidate will have:
- Demonstrated capability and expertise advising clients on complex regulatory risk and compliance matters and leading key projects within a large consulting firm, with experience working with financial services clients being essential
- Proven experience building a profitable and successful business through creating, fostering and developing client relationships
- Experience managing multiple projects throughout their entire engagement lifecycle, including proposals, pre-engagement activities, producing high quality deliverables, conducting stakeholder workshops, issuing final reports and billing
- Exceptional written and verbal communication with a focus on attention to detail, including deep experience writing business documents such as reports, letters and proposals
- A proactive approach to identifying and managing risk across your team and client engagements, setting the standard for compliance with the firm's policies and procedures
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