Trainee Conflict Analyst - 12 month FTC

We have a great opportunity for a Trainee Conflict Analyst to join our General Counsel team in our Birmingham office on a 12-month fixed term contract. Within this role you are required to carry out conflict/confidentiality searches by examining and analysing often complex information and providing detailed feedback to fee earners and partners in compliance with the SRA Code of Conduct. You will also be responsible for client opening and on-boarding in addition to carrying out customer due diligence. You will be required to analyse corporate documentation, understand and interpret corporation information from global sources and ensure the firm complies fully with its legal obligations regarding anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.

We are looking for someone who has the ability to analyse complex data, with a strong eye for detail, excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style in order to build relationships at all levels. To this role you will bring a hard working attitude, the ability to be a team player with a flexible approach whilst having the capability to work independently, prioritising workload, and working within tight deadlines ensuring you are able to keep calm under pressure and always deliver excellent client service. Advantageous/Desirable skills/experience in:

• Previous knowledge or experience of compliance/money laundering/regulatory issues.
This is a fast paced, high volume role working to KPI's and SLA's and within this role you will be the first business support team that is in contact with the clients, so you must display the passion to work and strive to achieve Gowling WLG high quality client experience standards.

Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to WorkÂŽ for 24 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:
• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Equal Opportunities: Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.