JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: HR Compliance Officer

Location - Birmingham

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:30am - 5:30pm (England), Monday - Friday. 9am - 5pm (Scotland) - Flexibility required.

About the Business:

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced HR Compliance Officer, specialising in Law Society Liaison, to join our team in Birmingham.

The successful candidate will be responsible for Law Society compliance across UK and Ireland. They will also provide advisory support to global colleagues in relation to international regulatory duties. The role also involves managing background vetting requests in relation to the requirements of our banking clients.

If this is the right role for you, you will enjoy ensuring adherence to our Law Society responsibilities as a global law firm; managing background screening processes; reviewing processes and suggesting improvements; taking part in audits; managing stakeholder communications; and working on HR projects.

We are a purpose-led business and we live by our values of being "approachable, bold and connected". We strive to do this every day. It is our people and our team who make this happen.

If this is important to you too, then we want to hear from you.

we are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

Candidate Overview:

Provide support and guidance for the HR Services team and wider firm regarding day-to-day Law Society queries. Provide escalation support for more complex queries.

Co-ordinating and running the annual renewal exercise for Practising Certificates for Law Society of Scotland, England & Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland and assisting on other ad hoc renewals that take place throughout the year.

Co-ordinating the annual renewal of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission levy (Scotland).

Manage Barrister renewals (The Bar Council).

Liaising with the relevant Law Societies, communicating and co-ordinating all changes.

Liaising with members of other legal authorities to ensure practising certificates are renewed.

Oversee vetting processes in relation to banking client requirements. Ensure that checks are conducted in a timely manner, recorded on the HR System and shared databases and escalate any adverse results to relevant stakeholders.

Regularly audit banking client vetting processes, ensuring that all processes remain fit for purpose and recommended changes are evaluated and implemented where necessary.

Act as main contact in client audit scenarios. Prepare documentation and evidence required for audits and meet with auditors where required.

Support the wider objectives of the HR Compliance team as required.

As well as being values-driven, ideally you will bring the following skills and experiences:

Law Society Practising Certificate renewal processes

People screening processes

Client audit experience

Working within an HR or a professional services background

Able to operate as a trusted expert and influence key stakeholders as required

What can we offer you?

Agile working i.e. the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments;

25 days' annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days;

Up to an additional 5 days' paid leave towards parental/caring responsibilities;

Contributory pension of up to 5%;

Private healthcare;

Death in service cover (4 x base salary);

Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan;

Cycle to work scheme.

We envisage this role being a full-time position, however, we are open to considering flexible working arrangements.

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

For any queries or for a copy of the full job description, please contact our in-house recruiter, Sarah O'Brien. Please note we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.