The Opportunity
We’re looking for a proactive and conscientious compliance professional to join our Global Business Acceptance team as an Analyst in our Hong Kong office. Being exposed to a wide variety of queries and situations, you will need to demonstrate strong organisational skills and a keen attention to detail to regularly balance multiple competing priorities. This role primarily involves identifying (and working to resolve) technical & commercial conflicts, CDD & financial crime related issues and reputational risk concerns. You will also be expected to handle ad hoc queries that come into the team, get involved in workstreams outside your normal scope of work and facilitate an environment that promotes the well-being and development of all team members. Given this, no two days in this role will be the same, and you will have the opportunity to prioritise your own personal development to fit the next steps in your career. Your continued, overarching focus will be supporting global Management in driving the strategy of the team and the firm forward. Although you will be part of the APAC team, your role will have a global remit. We are one Global Team. We are one Global Firm.
The firm
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Our promise
Bird & Bird is committed to maintaining an inclusive working environment and we are an equal opportunities employer. We will actively support and supervise your professional development. For those with the necessary energy and ability, we will ensure that the firm is a first-class platform on which you can develop into an industry leader. We support an agile working environment and are happy to discuss flexible working.
The team
The Global Business Acceptance team is responsible for supporting Bird & Bird’s ambitious growth plans, ensuring our goals as a firm are achieved in a way that both aligns with our strategy and protects our brand. We do this every day by being trusted and respected advisors in areas including technical & commercial conflicts, financial crimes, sanctions and reputational risk. We help the firm do the right work, for the right clients on the right terms. With over 55 team members located across Hong Kong, the UAE and the UK, dealing daily with queries across our 33 offices in 23 jurisdictions, we truly embody our team’s Global name. Our Hong Kong team is currently comprised of ten individuals, so you’ll be joining a well-established team structure.
What you'll do
- Primarily, you’re responsible for analysing a variety of business acceptance issues on a daily basis, proactively seeking solutions which are in line with firm policy and a commercial approach. This includes learning about, identifying and working to resolve (and where necessary, escalating) legal and commercial conflicts, client due diligence, financial crime, reputational risk and other business acceptance related issues. As an Analyst, you’re expected to be practical, thorough and risk-based in your approach, striving for a high quality of work in every situation.
- You’re responsible for supporting those around you in the Global Business Acceptance team on queries they have. As an Analyst, you may need to get involved in issues normally outside your remit to ensure the firm’s needs are met and to ensure the normal operation of the global team.
- You’re responsible for proactively and constructively managing your own workload and working with those around you in respect of their workloads to ensure that the firm’s needs are being met and queries are being prioritised appropriately.
- You’re responsible for fostering an environment of inclusion and growth which focuses on a consistent approach to high quality work and commerciality.
- You’re responsible for working with and supporting other members of the Global Business Acceptance team globally, other members of the Risk & Compliance department globally and other members of the firm globally on a daily basis.
- You’re expected to proactively seek out learning opportunities, and maintain a willingness to develop your technical and non-technical skillset in your role.
- You’re expected to contribute to the continued development of the Global Business Acceptance team’s policies, frameworks, procedures, guidance and systems by providing regular feedback to Management and those around you.
- You’re expected to contribute to workstreams outside your normal scope of work in line with strategy developed by Management of the Global Business Acceptance team.
You will be part of the APAC-based team in the Global Business Acceptance team. You’re expected to work in the Hong Kong office five days per week.
About you
- You must have knowledge and experience analysing conflicts of interest or financial crime issues, as well as reputational risk and commercial related issues, in the Business Acceptance or Risk & Compliance department at a law firm, professional services firm or financial firm.
- You must have experience identifying issues, knowing how to escalate them and collegially working with those around you to resolve them.
- You should be curious and have a keen desire to continually learn.
- You should have experience balancing multiple stakeholders’ requests, being organised in managing competing priorities and adapting to regularly changing approaches and requirements.
- You should have experience effectively communicating in a variety of different ways.
- You should have experience working in a large team, preferably one that is international.
- You should have experience contributing to workstreams outside your normal scope or work.
