Job Description

Cosmopolitan Accountants is a fast-growing accounting and tax business, and we are looking for a highly motivated Legal and Compliance Officer who is willing to join us at an interesting journey when we are expanding and diversifying our service offerings for our growing clientele.

The successful candidates will play an active role in liaising directly with clients on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) advisory and regulatory compliance issues, providing advice, training, and drafting materials such as compliance manuals and policies. The role will directly report into Company Director and will involve management responsibilities.

Provide Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and advisory services to potential clients such as:

• Advising and reviewing documentation provided by potential clients to ensure compliance with Money Laundering Regulations and local AML/CTF laws.
• Advising clients on compliance with sanction screening requirements.
• Advising clients on relevant requirements and obligations under the Bribery Act and on accepting or giving gifts.
• AML risk assessment, health check and framework review.
• Compliance advisory service.
• AML Policy and procedure formulation.
•Review (or support in design) of systems and controls for financial crime compliance, including Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Know Your Customer (KYC) and Client on-boarding procedures.
• Support clients on AML Technology selection and implementation (e.g., for customer due diligence, screening, continuous monitoring)
• AML training and awareness for clients.

Provide Paralegal services to potential clients, including:

• Legal drafting, proof reading of legal documents, including witness statement
• Creating court / matter bundle.
• Filling out forms such as applications and land registry and filing and issuing documents at court.
• Company formation and secretarial support

Skill, experience, and qualifications required:

•Minimum bachelor’s degree in law or a qualified solicitor/ LLM.
•A Certified member of Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).
•Have a minimum of 4 years' experience of working in a commercial law firm or regulated industry sector.
•An awareness of English professional conduct requirements and experience of applying English regulation.
•Be highly intelligent and have excellent commercial judgement.
•Analytical thinking; with strong communication skills with experience of operating in a multi-cultural environment.
•Have sufficient influencing skills to work successfully & confidently at all levels including with senior management.
•Be sufficiently confident to exercise risk-based judgement calls daily.
•Highly motivated and flexible in approach to work based on business and client demands.
•Be fully conversant with the lawyer's primary duties as to confidentiality and client care.

Job Description

Cosmopolitan Accountants is a fast-growing accounting and tax business, and we are looking for a highly motivated Legal and Compliance Officer who is willing to join us at an interesting journey when we are expanding and diversifying our service offerings for our growing clientele.

The successful candidates will lead Information Technology (IT) assurance services such as IT audits, IT risk advisory and Cyber security services for our clients in the UK. The role will directly report into Company Director and will involve management responsibilities.

Key Duties :

•Conducting IT Audit engagements at clients ensuring effective engagement with the business - planning, fieldwork and then delivering the report ensuring the right tone is delivered.
•Identifying control weaknesses across the IT platform ensuring recommendation for improvement are communicated.
•Support potential clients in the development of the IT audit plans, which will be subject to review and approval by the Audit Committees.
•Performing specialist audit assignments at clients such as SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 readiness reviews, ISO 27001 audit engagements, cyber security controls, identity & access management, information protection and defence mechanisms.
•Reviewing and assessing client’s disaster recovery plans including policies and procedures in place in the event of a disaster for each office.
•Contributing to development of client base through value adding services such as development of information security policies, IT continuity plans.
•Providing information security training and awareness services to potential clients.

Skill, experience and qualifications required :

•IT Degree or CISA qualification (or relevant experience) with ≥ 3 years technology audit / risk experience.
•Significant experience and strong knowledge of key technology domains including infrastructure (networks, databases and operating systems), cyber security, ITIL practices, data analytics, applications (ERP and cloud solutions) and emerging technologies.
•Strong influencing and negotiation skills to ensure appropriate action is taken by senior management to remediate issues.
•Remaining abreast of emerging trends and successful practices, using this knowledge to make recommendations for the ongoing development of the function.