Law - RRM - Team Lead

At EY, you ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

At EY, you ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Join us as a Senior and get a chance to become a research expert and a compliance professional.

The opportunity
As a Regulatory Research Monitoring attorney, at a senior associate level you will get the opportunity to work on a variety of compliance projects. The work will give you exposure to the regulatory landscape of various countries on multiple areas of law.

Your key responsibilities
At a senior associate level your primary responsibilities require you to:

• Conduct training on compliance areas for subordinates and guide them with subject matter requirements on live projects and otherwise.
• Co-operate with team members and acts as a team player.
• Supervise junior team members as a manager (goal centric career management and go to person for all issues)
• Escalate project specific issues and other relevant issues, as appropriate, to the relevant stakeholders.
• Understand the underlying issues of a project.
• Take ownership and provide feedback to juniors and assist in resolving conflict
• Achieve on time delivery (OTD) on all client deliverables or anticipate and escalate possible delay in advance.
• Be thorough and meticulous with great attention to details.
• Take ownership of processes and controls of the team, driving the development of methods to improve processes and/or controls to ensure that these are efficient, effective, and relevant
• Understand overall client requirements to help develop project scope and drive internal discussions on resource requirements and creation of project plan
• Understand project metrics such as utilization, efficiency, gross margins etc.
• Be effective in communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Be organized and efficient - handle responsibility assigned to them quickly and accurately.
• Report back to their seniors on the status of assignments.
• Be effective on the floor in terms of sharing learning/insights with peers/juniors/seniors.
• Be consistently present and have active participation at team, department, and company meetings and participates in voluntary professional development programs.
• Accomplish work with low to moderate supervision.

Skills and attributes for success
To do the work we do, we require people with a specific skill set.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Degree in Law (Masters preferable)
• 3 - 5 years of experience
• Professional proficiency in English, with in-depth knowledge of the rules of the English language, standards of style, punctuation, and grammar.
• Excellent legal research, writing and organizational skills
• Fundamental understanding of financial concepts and good hold on legal and compliance areas
• Ability to drive team s interpretation and understanding of statutes considering financial products and services
• Excellent analytical and logical skills, along with attention to details
• Good project management and people management experience
• Ability to create standard instructions regarding legal research and any other project scope and cascade

Ideally, you ll also have

• Experience in legal research/regulatory compliance related work.
• Ability to advice and contribute towards creation of linear and efficient workflows based on project requirement
• Working knowledge of legal databases
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially MS Excel
• Experience in troubleshooting and issue resolution
• Passion for work, desire to learn and an innovative approach towards work
• Effective communication results/findings of work in all mediums (verbal and written)
• Be effective on the floor in terms of sharing learning/insights with peers/seniors.
• Adaptiveness to team and fosters collaborative approach
• Diligence and ability to multi-task

What we look for
We look for people who have a good understanding of financial market and concepts. These attorneys should be capable of conducting independent research to understand the business of financial firms and determine relevant compliance obligations. They should have a good understanding of financial terms and concepts. They must have the ability to accurately interpret financial statutes and regulations. These attorneys should be good with research and know where to find the most up-to-date regulatory and statutory developments. These attorneys should have exceptional analytical skills. They should be capable of participating in quality control process. They should identify and escalate all relevant issues as well as cascade down all relevant information. They should have excellent oral and written communication skills.

What we offer
When you work with us, you get a chance to work with emerging technologies. Pursue new opportunities. Reinvent yourself every day. Our culture of innovation at EY means embracing change in everything you do, from applying new technologies to making existing processes better. Your powerful ideas will unlock your full potential - and ours.

• Continuous learning: You ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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