About Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland represents the combination of two firms with a shared culture, values and commitment to client service excellence. We are each known for our commercial awareness and industry knowledge and for providing innovative and tailored solutions for every client. As a full service law practice, we act for the public and private sector across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the US providing legal advice to clients across the Company Commercial, Employment, Labour & Pensions, Litigation and Dispute Management, and Real Estate practices. With 74 offices across 35 countries worldwide, we have become one of the largest law practices in the world and a great place to work and develop your career.

The Team

The Eversheds Sutherland Business Acceptance Team (“BAT”) is based in Leeds and works within the Governance and Compliance team to support the firm in meeting its legal and regulatory obligations. The BAT is divided into two sub-teams, the conflicts team and the client opening team.  The conflicts team manage conflicts handling for new clients and new matters and the implementation of information barriers.  The client opening team assist the firm to comply with the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 completing due diligence on the firm’s clients. 

The Role

The Business Acceptance Coordinator is an essential role within the team, you will manage the teams inbox along with allocating work and answering queries from internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate BAT work streams
• Manage BAT shared Outlook mailboxes
• Assist with the delivery of BAT projects
• Assist internal clients with ad-hoc queries via email and telephone
• Support with client and matter risk assessments in line with Firm policies and procedures
• Support with third party payment requests in line with Firm policies and procedures
• Directing queries to the appropriate person
• Provide an efficient and professional service to all internal clients
• Build strong and lasting relations with internal clients, colleagues and stakeholders in order to achieve business goals and objectives.

Skills & Experience

Behaviour

• Hard working and well organised.
• Helpful and approachable.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Remains calm and professional even at times of increased workload and pressure.
• Responds positively to change and new challenges.
• Applies logical thinking and demonstrates ability to prioritise.

People

• Works effectively and co-operatively with others, establishing and maintaining positive working relationships.
• Communicates effectively over email and telephone.
• Open about everything, including mistakes

Profit

• Demonstrates a commercial approach.

Clients

• Consistently achieves high levels of client service.
• Takes ownership of problems

Strategy & Knowledge

• Willingness to proactively seek out information and take on new tasks and responsibilities.
• Manages workload effectively.
• An understanding of how their role impacts the team and wider firm.

Benefits

You'll have the opportunity to join a supportive team who have an excellent track record of developing and promoting from within, in addition to this you will receive a competitive salary and benefits package, including; 26 days annual leave; flexible holiday scheme; subsidised canteen on Eversheds Sutherland sites and private medical.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, we recognise that having diverse talent across our business brings many benefits, and we are committed to accessing a wide range of views and thinking in all that we do. A culture of inclusion, where each person feels able to be their true self at work and reach their full potential is key. We recognise that bringing together the perspectives of individuals of all backgrounds, life experiences, preferences and beliefs is critical if we are to serve our global client base, people and communities as a leading global legal practice.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable participation in the recruitment process, please contact us so that we can discuss how best to assist.

We are open to considering flexible working options for our vacancies. Whilst we are not able to offer flexible working across all of our roles, many of our people work flexibly in some way, and we would encourage you to talk to us about this during the hiring process if you would like to explore further.

We are a LGBT+ inclusive employer and are Stonewall Corporate Champions.