Risk and Best Practice Assistant

Make a Real Impact

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.

Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2024/25 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an twelfth consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers

Our Risk & Best Practice (R&BP) department in Bristol are currently recruiting for a Risk & Best Practice Assistant to join their busy and growing team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Monitoring & responding to emails to the R&BP mailbox
• Logging Risk incidents to include data breaches, claims and complaints and ethical issues
• Providing administrative support for the R&BP team, including the creation and formatting of risk reports, letters and spreadsheets in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Assisting in the scheduling of internal and external meetings (including audits)
• Updating R&BP team policies and guidance and updating relevant links on the intranet
• Preparing and publishing intranet news items for the R&BP team
• Assisting with the setting up and administration of information barriers
• Setting up training sessions for the firm as needed on Risk issues, to include new starters and existing staff, and monitoring & reporting on completion statistics
• Managing and tracking expenditure on the R&BP team's online log
• Supporting the Due Diligence Officers in undertaking client due diligence, including identification and verification of beneficial owners and performing sanctions and PEP checks
• Ongoing monitoring of clients for anti-money laundering purposes
• Providing support to the rest of the R&BP team in case of absence as needed and dealing with miscellaneous risk-related queries

There will also be scope for the R&BP Assistant to work on projects, develop their skills and expand their responsibilities further over time.

What we are looking for from you

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Ability to work in a careful, methodological way with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to identify improvements to working practices within the R&BP team so as to maximise efficiency
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects and manage own workload to meet deadlines
• Ability to deliver work of a high quality, whilst ensuring that time allocated to particular tasks is proportionate
• Proactive, self-motivated and flexible approach