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Hugh James, a highly ranked top 100 law firm based in the centre of Cardiff, is currently looking to recruit an Assistant Quality Auditor and Administrator to join their Quality & Risk Department.
The role
The successful candidate will be responsible for performing regulatory non-financial file audits, to assist in verifying and ensuring compliance with the Firm’s internal control environment. The primary focus of this position will be compliance and operational audit activities, duties will include:
- Performing quality and regulatory non-financial file audits within a file supervision database for compliance, operational and quality management system audits
- Reporting on the audit findings and areas of non-compliance and identifying opportunities for enhancing internal controls and/or operational efficiencies
- Prescribing corrective action to correct non-compliances
- Prescribing preventative action to reduce the risk of repeated non-compliance
- Maintaining audit records
- Assisting the Quality Manager in preparing audit documentation for external audits
- Maintaining the firm’s complaint database
- Assisting with the administration of the firm’s databases and portals
- Assisting the wider Quality and Risk team with administrative support
- Running and circulating quality reports
- Developing and maintaining productive working relationships with all levels of management
Qualifications, skills and experience
Previous experience is not necessary as full training will be provided but the successful candidate will have a keen eye for detail and be methodical in their approach.
The role requires excellent organisational skills in order to work on various audits. The ability to make good judgments based upon observations and supporting information is essential.
The ability to understand quality and regulatory standards is essential and experience of working in a legal environment would be advantageous
This role may be desirable to someone who is currently in an administrative or secretarial role who is looking for a new opportunity to develop their skills.
Life at Hugh James
Although our workforce has grown to more than 500, we have retained and nurtured a unique culture which is based on hard work, exceptional talent, ambition, empathy, innovation and good humour. It is those qualities that have helped us grow the business to where we stand today.
Key to our growth strategy to date has been the recruitment and development of great people. This will remain the case as we look forward to the years ahead. Life at Hugh James is vibrant and full of opportunities.
Our culture is friendly and collegiate, but we maintain the professional atmosphere you would expect from a modern, leading law firm. All our staff have access to industry-leading training and mentoring to ensure they reach their potential.
Some of our benefits on offer include:
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Two Corporate Social Responsibility days
Birthday day off
Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary
Auto enrolment pension scheme
Hybrid working
Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts for local businesses
Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)
Employee recruitment incentive scheme
Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Emil Moesle
We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
