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As our Legal and Regulatory Change Coordinator, you’ll be at the heart of our governance and compliance operations—playing a key role in how we manage and deliver regulatory change across the business, and providing essential support to the Legal and Regulatory Change Team. This role is central to the effective delivery of regulatory change initiatives, including managing cyclical governance processes, maintaining the regulatory calendar, and supporting project tracking and team operations.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain and update the Regulatory Change Calendar, ensuring timely tracking of compliance milestones   and statutory obligations
• Coordinate governance reporting cycles, including preparing structured updates and submissions for senior leadership and regulatory forums.
• Support the planning, delivery and monitoring of Legal and Regulatory Change projects, including milestone tracking, risk identification and stakeholder communications.
• Provide team administration/ operational support such as meeting scheduling, action tracking, and document version control.
• Manage internal databases and trackers (e.g., Document Management Control Spreadsheet, Compliance Learning logs) to ensure accuracy and accessibility.
• Serve as the first point of contact for internal queries related to regulatory change, escalating issues as needed.
• Facilitate onboarding and offboarding processes for team members and stakeholders involved in regulatory change initiatives.
• Assist in preparing presentations, dashboards, and reports for internal and external stakeholders.

• Proven experience in compliance, legal operations, or regulatory support
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 tools, including Excel, Teams, Planner, SharePoint, and MS Lists, with a focus on tracking, reporting, and collaboration.
• Experienced in managing cyclical processes such as regulatory calendars, governance reporting, and document control.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently, effectively managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Meticulous attention to detail, particularly in maintaining trackers, logs, and version-controlled documentation.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks relevant to the legal and regulatory sectors, including SRA, FCA, and GDPR.
• An understanding of internal governance structures and regulatory operations

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.