Risk Analyst

Risk Analyst

Dentons is seeking a Risk Analyst for our growing new business intake team across the Europe region. We look for reliable, organized candidates with strong analytical skills and attention to detail, who enjoy engaging in teamwork, working in a dynamic international environment, and getting exposure to major business transactions. Our Risk Analysts play a crucial role in conflicts of interest as well as compliance checks, management of risk, and overall support the firm in applying the standards of risk-based culture.

Key responsibilities:

1. Running checks of varying levels of complexity and across diverse sectors, practices, and geographies, in accordance with and application of appropriate Legal Profession Rules/Codes of Conduct to consider commercial, contractual, confidential information, legal or other forms of possible conflict of interest for each new business intake request including but not limited to AML ongoing monitoring, reputational risk consideration and sanctions analysis.
2. Conducting an anti-money laundering refresh of due diligence for existing clients.
3. Coordinating with Dentons regions to obtain conflict clearances across Dentons worldwide.
4. Managing complexity protection of confidential information issues, overseeing information barriers, and maintaining document security processes.
5. Reviewing engagement letters, outside counsel terms, and other engagement terms/contracts.
6. Assisting the team and risk management in various tasks and projects, such as client terms review, technology upgrades, team training, and policy drafting.
7. Collaborating with partners, business support teams, and Risk teams firmwide to ensure the prompt resolution of commercial and legal conflict issues identified from conflict searches.