Baker McKenzie

The Corporate Compliance, Legal Professional will work closely with the Global Reorganizations Practice Group, which specializes in the design and execution of complex domestic and cross-border reorganizations. The group comprises experts from various practice areas and is highly experienced in all forms of corporate restructuring. The role-holder will support clients in meeting their global corporate compliance obligations. This includes tasks such as filing statutory accounts and annual returns, and implementing changes to legal entities, such as director appointments and resignations. The individual will play a pivotal role in delivering, tracking, and managing work to consistently high standards of quality and efficiency.

Main responsibilities:

• Support the GCMS team in populating and maintaining client-specific IT platforms during new entity onboarding processes
• Upload and accurately profile legal documents to client-specific SharePoint platforms, as required
• Monitor and update compliance trackers, flag any upcoming or missed deadlines to the GCMS team leads
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to progress compliance matters and ad hoc corporate maintenance requests
• Assist in the onboarding of new clients, ensuring a smooth and efficient process
• Engage directly with GCMS clients to advance onboarding, annual compliance, and corporate maintenance activities
• Contribute to the preparation and delivery of compliance reports during weekly client calls
• Support the GCMS team in reviewing work-in-progress (WIP) to facilitate timely client invoicing
• Escalate client queries and issues to senior management where appropriate, and assist in their resolution
• Participate in knowledge capture initiatives and contribute to discussions on process improvements within the GCMS team
• Coordinate with lawyers and business professionals across the firm globally, including corresponding counsel teams
• Attend and actively contribute to regular team meetings, providing updates on open tasks, pending deadlines, and new opportunities to the GCMS Director and wider team
• Support Senior Management with new business development opportunities

Skills and experience:

• An undergraduate degree in law with minimum 2:1 classification
• Advanced in Microsoft Office applications (Intermediate Excel and Word is essential)
• Exceptional attention to detail and time management is required
• Positive team player and active contributor in a team environment
• Experience in a professional services organization, Experience of SharePoint
• Can demonstrate strong IT skills
• Excellent organizational, prioritization and problem-solving skills
• Confident to liaise with senior stakeholders internally and externally

Reports to:  Associate Director, GCMS

Position type: Center Services

Development framework: Other Legal Staff

At Baker McKenzie we are different in the way we think, work and behave. With our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 locally admitted lawyers, in over 70 offices worldwide, we have a passionately collaborative community of 60 nationalities and are committed to world-class career development to everyone in every job at every level. Baker McKenzie can offer you both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm paired with a passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment.

Working at Baker McKenzie:

Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Center is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.

We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.

Baker McKenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion for all. Our unique international culture is reflected in the drawing together of a worldwide family of individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds in all of our offices. We encourage the best people - regardless of race, religion or belief if any, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation or age - to fulfill their professional aspirations with us.  We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates.