To support the Head of Risk and Compliance in promoting and maintaining the highest standards of legal, regulatory, and ethical compliance across the firm. The successful candidate will have particular responsibility for leading on day-to-day data protection matters. They will also act as a senior adviser on a broad range of risk and compliance matters, delivering prompt and pragmatic advice to lawyers and senior stakeholders, supervising and developing junior team members and playing a key role in shaping and driving risk and compliance projects across the firm.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading on day-to-day data protection matters within the Risk & Compliance function, working closely with the firm’s DPO and other stakeholders to identify, assess, and manage data protection risks and regulatory requirements across the firm. This will include providing advice on data protection and privacy laws, managing complex data protection breaches and responses, advising on data protection impact assessments and legitimate interests assessments and other accountability requirements, designing and delivering firmwide training, and developing and maintaining data protection policies, procedures, and guidance.
- Undertaking risk and compliance assessments of prospective suppliers, including due diligence reviews and contract reviews.
- Advising on emerging regulatory and risk issues, including AI.
- Providing advice to the firm on a range of legal, regulatory, risk and compliance queries including anti-money laundering, conflicts of interest, data protection, supplier risk, and professional conduct.
- Advising on client engagement letters and terms of business, client policies and questionnaires.
- Building strong working relationships with partners and other lawyers, identifying and advising on risk and compliance issues relating to their clients and practice areas.
- Contributing to the firm’s file audit programme, evaluating audit outcomes and working with lawyers / teams on corrective actions.
- Drafting and implementing new policies and procedures and updating existing policies.
- Designing and delivering risk and compliance training and contributing to the ongoing development of the firm’s internal training programme.
- Identifying and prioritising internal risk and compliance issues, leading and delivering risk and compliance projects as well as projects across the firm that require strategic risk and compliance input.
- Preparing reports to senior management on risk and compliance issues.
- Keeping up to date with legal and regulatory compliance and communicating updates to the team, senior management and the firm.
- Contributing to the development of the Risk & Compliance team, including sharing knowledge at team meetings and developing the team’s processes and ways of working, including the use of AI tools.
Stevens & Bolton – making a positive difference to your career
You’ll work with people who listen, and who actively and willingly support one another within a collaborative and engaging environment. We genuinely care about our people and strive to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive and happy workforce.
We are recognised as a top firm in The Times Best Law Firms 2025, shortlisted for “Law Firm of the Year: The Independents” at The Lawyer Awards 2025 and shortlisted for “Regional/Offshore Team of the Year” at the Legal Business Awards 2025. The Firm was recently named “Law firm of the year” at the 2025 Legal Cheek Awards, was shortlisted for “ESG Initiative of the Year” at the Women, Influence & Power in Law UK 2024 Awards and shortlisted for “UK Law Firm of the Year - Small/Mid-Sized Firm” at the British Legal Awards 2023. Our refurbished office has been awarded a RICS SKA silver certificate and a 2-star Fitwel accreditation.
We’ve made excellence the hallmark of our firm: in the clear advice we give, in the enduring client relationships we build and in our proactive and highly responsive service. We seek to recruit people who will help us maintain and build on this, and in return we offer excellent long-term career and development opportunities.
Diversity & Inclusion
We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I). This drives a strategy which focuses on constant promotion of an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to realise their full potential and be themselves at work. In 2020 we were shortlisted for “Best D&I Initiative” at The HR Awards and for “Best Talent and Inclusion Initiative” at The Lawyer Awards.
