Senior Conflicts Professional – In-House Legal Department

Overview: One of the top global Investment firms which serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide by providing financial advisory services for Global M&A Transactions, Global Restructuring, and other services is looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Conflicts Analyst(SCA) to join it’s team.

Summary: The SCA is responsible for discovering, examining, and solving potential conflicts of interest matters, as well as investigating, assessing, and arranging summaries of the firm’s client relationships. The SCA will conduct thorough, frequent reviews of conflicts check reports, resolving any found issues on a timely basis.

Responsibilities: Conflicts Identification and Management. Investigating and supporting the identification and management of possible conflicts of interest relating to the firm’s business activities, including, when appropriate:

• Reviewing conflict check requests for new and existing engagements and opportunities
• Identifying potential conflicts of interest, determining appropriate actions to manage possible conflicts or other relationships and recording resolutions in the firm’s conflicts system, including drafting disclosures, waivers, ethical wall memos etc.
• Preparing summaries of potential conflicts and other relationships for senior-level attorneys
• Managing and maintaining the Firm’s conflicts databases, and contributing to process and technology improvements to optimize and ensure integrity of the conflicts check process
• Proactively communicate with senior-level attorneys on complex conflicts questions
• Serve as resource to the Firm’s professional staff in order to assist in timely and accurate submission of conflicts checks
• Assist professional staff in understanding the Firm’s conflicts check processes, procedures and systems
• Submitting conflicts checks, and generating relationships reports, using the Firm’s conflicts system
  
• Determining the nature and extent of any potential conflicts or other relationships by reviewing and analyzing relationships reports generated by the Firm’s conflicts system, interacting with the professional staff on an as-needed basis
• Drafting relationship disclosure memos and summaries

Experience:

• Three(3)+ years of applicable experience, preferably managing and resolving conflicts issues in the conflicts department of a Professional Services Firm or National or Global Law Firm, or other professional services firm

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree Necessary; JD a plus
• Strong proficiency in financial databases (e.g., Capital IQ), online research tools, internal conflicts database software, Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, database search tools, accessing SEC and state corporate filings
• Ability to interact directly, effectively and professionally with a wide group of professionals at different levels of seniority across the Firm
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely present information to senior level attorneys and other professional staff
• Demonstrated initiative in completing assignments and persistence in following up to ensure resolution of open issues
• Ability to research, analyze, and synthesize large amounts of data in an accurate and efficient manner
• Ability to escalate issues as appropriate and propose well-thought-out solutions
• Creative thinking with the ability to identify multiple paths to resolution of an issue, as well as the benefits and risks to each path
• Sensitivity to audience with ability to adjust approach to persons being addressed
• Interest in understanding both the big picture and the details of a situation
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• COVID-19 vaccination required, subject to applicable state and federal law

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with investment banking services
• Experience or training in negotiating confidentiality agreements
• JD degree from an ABA-approved law school
• Licensed in good standing to practice law in the State of California

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