Bates Wells

Compliance

• Providing strategic advice on complex issues, including regulatory matters that involve more than one regulatory regime and inter-disciplinary cases.
• Broadens and deepens internal and external networks, personal brand, and personal business development approach aligned to department business plan, leading to significant and sustained work origination.
• Proactively lead client development activities that result in increased client engagement, positive client feedback or new client relationships. Supports partners in CRM activity, including acting as deputy CRM for some clients.
• Provides excellent commercial legal advice to clients in matters relating to public and regulatory practice, with a high-level technical skills, requiring limited technical supervision whilst maintaining good general knowledge of other areas of law.
• Regularly leads and supervises matters within areas of expertise and discrete components of other matters with minimal levels of supervision and to a high standard.
• Guides others to produce high quality work that uses plain language, is client focused and commercial.
• Supports and coaches their team and manages the delivery of the work efficiently and within timescales. Guides junior colleagues, including engaging with profitability reports, facilitating discussions regarding the profitability of particular matters, clients or types of work.
• Collaborates with leaders to promote a high-performance culture by giving regular feedback and by identifying and supporting others with development needs.

Public & Regulatory Lawyer – 6 month FTC

Systems Engineer

• Collaborate with legal and business teams to analyse workflows and identify opportunities for better use of existing tools, AI, emerging technologies, automation, and digital innovation.
• Operate high autonomy, managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes with minimal supervision.
• Produce clear, high‑quality artefacts, including business/functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process maps and workflow diagrams.
• Support the identification, selection and suitability assessment of emerging technology to meet business requirements.
• Play a key role in delivering new system(s) from selection through inception, project delivery and ongoing change management, working closely with the Technical Project Manager.
• Support proof‑of‑concepts and pilots, including defining success criteria and tracking performance.
• Act as the “face of IT,” facilitating workshops, interviews, and sessions to elicit business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the firm, requiring excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Stay informed on legal technology trends, AI developments and regulatory changes.
• Act as Product Owner / Product Specialist for new and existing applications.
• Proactively identify opportunities for system and process enhancements, automation and optimisation.
• Take ownership of Business Analyst workstreams for IT projects, ensuring best practice and close collaboration with the Technical Project Manager.
• Form part of the project team selecting and implementing new system(s), taking the lead where appropriate.
• Be technically aware and assist with selecting and implementing emerging technologies and applications to achieve efficiencies.
• Help shape and implement new ways of working and deliver continuous improvement with the IT Training and Engagement Manager and Technical Project Manager.
• Continuously identify and deliver business process improvements across the firm’s functions.

Public & Regulatory Lawyer – 6 month FTC

Business Process, Systems Analyst