Senior Advisor, Financial Crime & Risk

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting and challenging senior role within the internal facing Financial Crime and Risk (FCR) team at Ashurst. This role is responsible for advising the partnership on complex financial crime queries and shaping the policies for the firm across a range of risk areas.

The team is based in London, Glasgow and Brisbane. We are an advisory team that considers the full range of financial crime and related risks applicable to the operation of our global business, including money laundering, sanctions, corruption, modern slavery, tax transparency and ESG reporting. We develop systems and policies, prepare training, manage escalations and facilitate audit to ensure compliance with our own obligations. The team sits within the wider Risk & Compliance function and accordingly is responsible for driving management of risk and compliance to facilitate the firm's growth objectives as embedded in the 2027 global strategy

The Risk & Compliance function is commercially minded and focusses on adding value to the business and stakeholders.

The successful candidate will support development of junior team members, drive delivery of projects and provide high quality advice to the partnership.

This role is based in Glasgow with an expectation of office working 2 to 3 days a week, although applications for flexible working will be considered.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Complex anti-financial crime: engage with escalations from onboarding teams on complex sanctions, proceeds of crime and other related queries
• Systems and Controls: lead on projects in specific areas of financial crime or risk to support the design and implementation of systems, controls, policies and procedures in line with relevant regulatory requirements, including but not limited to anti-bribery, modern slavery and tax transparency.
• Change management: Work collaboratively across legal and business service teams to improve service, commercial impact and efficiency of the team, championing change management and buy-in of global polices and processes.
• Training and awareness: Support the development and delivery of training across the function and the wider business.

This is a full time, permanent role, based inGlasgow with hybrid working.

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 experience in dealing with complex Financial Crime queries, especially in the context of sanctions and proceeds of crime escalations, with at least 8 years' experience in a law firm's compliance team.
• Experience of counter-financial crime obligations and regulatory frameworks as they would apply to law firms in EMEA and APAC.
• A solutions focused approach in advising on all aspects of financial crime and risk management with respect to modern slavery, bribery, tax transparency.
• A sound understanding of the nature of the work in a multinational corporate law firm, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of how a top law firm works, its client base, the markets in which it operates and a familiarity with the structure of matters it takes on.
• Strong communication skills.
• Working knowledge and ability to use Compliance systems (eg Intapp, SDplus, 3E or similar)

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:

• competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
• flexible working;
• corporate health plans;
• a global professional development offering for all employees; and
• an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.

We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.

Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.