Conflicts Manager, Risk

6 months ago

Sydney, Australia Lander & Rogers Full time

About this role
- Award winning Australian private practice
- A firm with a strong reputation for having an authentic and inclusive culture
- Sydney or Melbourne Based

**About the Company**

Lander & Rogers is a leading independent law firm, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and global reach.

Our focus is on innovating the client experience and leading change in legal service delivery. We are also committed to supporting our communities through our pro bono work.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer and General Counsel, your focus is to develop the firm's business intake processes.

You will oversee the conduct of searches of firm databases and manage the firm's review, interpretation and summarising of results in a way to effectively and efficiently escalates critical issues and mitigates the risk of potential legal and business conflicts of interest. You will be interacting daily with senior management and partners of the firm.

You will train those checking and analysing results, and you will be instrumental in developing the team to undertake Anti-Money Laundering due diligence, sanctions and politically exposed persons checks on all new clients, suppliers, and business partners.

***Responsibilities**
- Accountable to oversee business intake requests to:

- Ensure clarity of requests and seek clarification where required
- Define search terms for new or existing clients/suppliers and all matter parties
- Prompt and efficient data entry into the firm's conflicts and other systems
- Analyse data to identify possible conflicts under applicable professional conduct rules and internal risk management protocols
- Conduct corporate research via external sources and internal databases
- Evaluate conflict reports, identify potential issues and clear false positives
- Send accurate and timely reports to partners and other legal staff
- Manage the waiver process, including drafting, logging, and filing waivers
- Ensure that all conflicts and other business intake reports are complete, consistent and accurate and adhere to established firmwide risk management protocols
- Escalate appropriate matters to partners or Risk.
- Resolve potential conflict issues with partners and other legal staff
- Promote awareness of the rules of professional conduct governing concurrent client conflicts in same or related matters, former client conflicts, commercial conflicts, confidentiality, and disclosure.
- Ensure that the team's function and performance is transparent and accountable to key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Technology and iHub on data cleansing projects and to identify and implement process improvements and training
- Support key projects and initiatives of the Risk team as required

**About You**
- Experience with intake and conflicts software, including CMS/Aderant, intapp, World Check One
- Proven ability to work through potential conflict of interest issues and exercise sound judgement on when to escalate
- Demonstrated ability to draft and revise engagement letters and to review outside counsel guidelines and similar documents for alignment with Firm policies, collaborating with the affected attorneys to negotiate these with clients.
- Excited about exploring and developing innovative responses to organisational challenges
- Critical reasoning and investigative skills with the ability to think laterally
- Demonstrate excellent collaboration and teamwork capability to build and maintain productive working relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Effective influencing and negotiation capability including during organisational transformation and change management
- The ability to facilitate presentations and meetings with varying sizes of groups internally and externally to organisation
- A resilient nature with the ability to remain calm under pressure

**Culture**

People choose Landers for our down-to-earth, collaborative and supportive culture. We invest in our people and empower them to bring their best selves to work, both personally and professionally. We promote a diverse and inclusive environment with a strong focus on wellbeing, leadership and development.

**Benefits**

Lander & Rogers offers a range of benefits to encourage professional development and ongoing learning, connection with colleagues, staying healthy and community involvement.

We value our people and understand the importance of maintaining a healthy, balanced and fulfilled lifestyle, some of our benefits include:

- **Hybrid work**:work flexibly between home and the office with the freedom to choose the location that is best for you, your clients, and your team.
- **Additional leave**: take a moment to stop, reflect and reenergise each year with up to five weeks of paid annual leave plus an annual wellness day.
- **Home office allowance**: deck out your home office with a $250 annual office allowance.
- **Tech discounts**: access corporate discounts on DELL computer products to have the latest per

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