Senior Conflicts Manager (Asia and Middle East)

About the role

Walkers, an international law and professional services firm, is looking for an experienced compliance professional with a background in the legal or professional services sector to join its Conflicts team (OGC). The role reports to the Director of Conflicts and deals with conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, information barriers and share dealing requests. It is ideally based in the Dubai, Hong Kong or Singapore office, though London-based candidates open to relocation are also welcome.

Key responsibilities

• Manage conflicts advisors in the relevant time zone, including leading recruitment of additional advisors.
• Act as escalation point for legal and commercial conflicts issues, resolving them in line with regulations, professional rules and firm policy.
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders globally and lead communications on conflicts and client confidentiality.
• Lead internal training on conflicts, client confidentiality, share dealing and insider lists.
• Identify weaknesses in the client onboarding system (Intapp Intake) and recommend improvements with the Director of Conflicts and the Compliance Business Systems team.
• Develop a phased programme to improve service delivery and to build a fully centralised conflict checking and analysis function within two years.
• Support the Director of Conflicts on quality, consistency, service excellence, people initiatives and team culture.
• Contribute to reporting to senior management and to cross-functional initiatives, and keep up to date with regulation, technology and market developments.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in law, business, finance or another relevant field.
• Experience in a compliance or in-house legal role in an international law firm or professional services environment.
• Deep technical knowledge of legal conflicts of interest, commercial conflicts and client confidentiality, with some knowledge of Market Abuse Regulations.
• People management experience, including supervising large teams and driving recruitment and development initiatives.
• Proven track record of delivering change and process improvements.
• Experience in an offshore environment or with offshore structures is helpful but not required.

Required skills

• Familiarity with Intapp Intake and Intapp.
• Policy work experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with attention to detail and good judgement.