Job Title:Associate Director
Service Functional Leader
Job Purpose:
The role of the newly established Law Conflicts Management Centre of Excellence within the RMS team is to identify and address potential legal ethical conflicts of interest involving law services. The Law Conflicts Management CoE will assess internal EY relationships with the parties involved and provide safeguards to address the threat of potential conflict to an acceptable level. The process also considers other professional ethical standards or regulatory requirements.
What you will do:
- Identify and manage ethical/ legal conflicts of interest at EY including provision of appropriate conflict safeguards to address the firm’s ethical obligations.
- Act as a quality controller for conflict checks within the Conflicts Management Law CoE.
- Identify the training needs of team members and facilitate the required trainings.
- Act as a mentor and coach.
- Assist the team in resolving technical queries and escalations with senior stakeholders in the business.
- Daily/Monthly reporting of operational KPIs.
- Manage operational, financial, and strategic responsibilities and projects, primarily including (but not limited to) areas like data governance, reporting, invoicing, financial planning, KPI benchmarking, headcount planning and process efficiency.
- Develop and implement a robust early warning system re process KPIs and benchmarks that can enable a zero-surprise delivery.
- Partner in strategy formation and implementation.
- Independently lead conversations with senior stakeholders.
- Responsible in preparing SLA and agree with stakeholders.
- Responsible for performance management and appraisals of the entire team.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working with other departments and teams to ensure a cohesive approach.
- Knowledge, skills and experience requirements:
Self-starter
- Apply good judgement.
- Ability to perform well under pressure and responsive to time sensitive projects.
- Good level of written and verbal communication skills.
- Good analytical skills with a logical mind-set to take right decisions at right time.
- Ability to work with a curious and global mind-set.
- Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or in coordination with other professionals.
- Customer service skills.
- Project management skills.
- Excellent team attitude, inter-personal and leadership skills; proven expertise in leading 10-15 member teams.
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills, including creativity and innovative thinking.
- Bring innovation to improve processes and work products and can learn/adapt quickly when required.
- Qualifications, certifications and education requirements:
Graduate in any discipline. (Law graduates preferred)
- Relevant experience of 5+years (preferably in International or Domestic Law firm experience or Legal/Ethical Conflict Checking but not required)
- Proficient with MS Office, esp excel and PPT.
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