The Team
The Risk Department provides support to the firm's Senior Management and to the wider business, to ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards of professional conduct, optimally manages its risk and sets a healthy risk culture and ensures compliance globally with its legal and regulatory requirements. This role is a senior level role and will lead in promoting and embedding best practice in these areas throughout the firm's global network.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the Head of Risk Management in developing the firm's strategy in respect setting its approach to managing conflicts globally; the role will be expected to work closely with the global Head of BAU and also with the Conflicts & New Business Committee, regional Boards and Practice Group Heads to develop and deliver a practical, robust and forward-looking approach.
- Shaping the conflicts and client intake capability within the firm to support the needs of the business, focussing on developing, coaching and growing those in the wider team who have a role within the conflicts process and identifying gaps and opportunities. The role will also consider appropriate learning and development initiatives required and build the knowhow within the team.
- Devising and leading a training programme on excellent conflicts management across the firm to embed key messages.
- Guiding the business with its most complex and challenging conflicts issues, escalating to the Conflicts & New Business Committee as required and reporting quarterly to the Management Board on conflicts issues.
- Supporting the Head of Risk Management in managing members of the team to ensure the firm is aligned and consistent in its risk culture and approach and to develop a continually closer relationship between the department and the lawyers in all regions.
Essential Skills & Experience
Key Objectives within the Role
As part of the role the candidate will:
- Analyse and critically assess the firm's current conflicts process and approach to conflicts with particular reference to US conflicts provision to ensure the firm is in the best position to take opportunities in the market over the next 5 -10 years;
- Deliver and guide the team to assist with delivering market leading conflicts training across offices as well as virtually.
- Be the go to for conflicts escalations from both the BAU and Risk teams.
The successful candidate will have:
- Qualified lawyer with a significant number of years' experience practising in an international law firm and with a bachelor or Master's Degree (or equivalent);
- Significant experience in managing risk within a professional services firm, with experience in enterprise risk also welcomed;
- Excellent ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, driving action and challenging inaction;
- Strong partnership abilities; skilled in influencing and motivating others especially senior leaders;
- Strong project management, problem-solving and decision-making skills;
- Expert trainer able to inspire and influence busy executives to engage with relevant training and scenarios;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presentation development and delivery;
- Proven ability to design and deliver well thought through, relevant and challenging exercise scenarios to all levels of business continuity teams;
- Ability to work independently and think critically;
- A strong service focus with the need to listen and understand the essential requirements of different areas of the firm;
- Ability to build connections and work collaboratively across boundaries at all levels.
The Firm
Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.
Our Values
Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:
- Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
- Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
- Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
- Act b oldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth
Business Services Competencies
Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assist ing them to fulfil their career aspirations.
The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:
- Technical Excellence
- People and Team
- Client/Stakeholder Relationships
- Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
- Personal Effectiveness
This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.
