Team Leader - Regulatory Compliance

For Linklaters Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Team Leader, Regulatory Compliance role.

Work arrangements:

Contract: Contract of employment

Hybrid working model: At least 2–3 days per week in the Q22 office. During the first weeks, you may be expected to work from the office 4–5 days per week to support onboarding.

Working hours: 9:00–17:15 and 10:00–18:15, with some flexibility.

About the team and role

As Team Leader within Linklaters’ global Legal & Risk team, you will act as the people, process and workload manager for both the Warsaw-based Regulatory Compliance and Contentious Risk operational teams. You will oversee day-to-day delivery, allocate and prioritise work, support team development, and help ensure high-quality, efficient risk management across both areas. Working closely with the wider global Regulatory Compliance and Contentious Risk teams, you will also gradually take on responsibility for a broad range of operational Regulatory Compliance matters, providing practical and commercial in-house support to the firm’s practice and business teams on compliance with applicable laws, regulations, professional obligations and internal policies.

You will:

Team management

• Lead, coach and develop the Warsaw team, fostering an inclusive and high-performing environment.
• Support the Manager with day-to-day hub operations, including workload planning, resourcing and absence cover.
• Oversee the allocation, prioritisation and timely delivery of workstreams to a high standard.
• Act as an operational lead, managing escalations, workflow and stakeholder coordination.
• Monitor performance against service level agreements and key performance indicators, using insights to drive improvement.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy and turnaround times.
• Prepare and maintain standard operating procedures for Regulatory Compliance and Contentious Risk workstreams.
• Support team development and capability building through mentoring, feedback and growth planning.
• Promote accountability, collaboration and strong team spirit across the team.
• Work closely with colleagues in Warsaw, London and Singapore, and with internal stakeholders, to ensure joined-up delivery.

Regulatory compliance responsibilities

• Manage key compliance processes, including outside interests, client due diligence, insider lists, data destruction requests and incident reporting.
• Respond to day-to-day regulatory and policy queries, providing practical guidance to internal stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships across the firm and, where relevant, with clients and external authorities to resolve issues.
• Use sound judgement and a solution-focused approach to balance regulatory requirements with commercial priorities.

Apply if you:

• Have 3+ years of team leadership experience in compliance, compliance support to lawyers, or similar work
• Have 4–5 years’ hands-on experience in an operational regulatory compliance role
• Communicate clearly in fluent English
• Hold an LLB or equivalent, graduate in other relevant field, or strong in-house law firm experience
• Have strong Excel skills
• Can manage competing priorities within tight timeframes
• Bring practical judgement, problem-solving ability and a collaborative approach across cultures

Benefits 

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include: 

·        Private medical care 

·        Free in-house fitness centre 

·        Life insurance 

·        Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel 

·        Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card 

·        Wide range of training opportunities 

About Linklaters 

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. 

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. 

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. 

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set. 

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further. 

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment, and governance responsibility commitments
• We remain focused on talent and having the best people which will result in a diverse workforce
• Having got the best people, we want them to feel included, valued and respected so they can perform at their best
• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect, and appreciation
• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.