Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing essential information to the world’s businesses and professionals in Law, Financial Services, Tax and Corporates. With our deep expertise and understanding of these professions, we offer our customers a broad range of innovative products and services. The relevant, insightful information and intuitive supporting systems we provide enable our customers to be successful. Thomson Reuters has operations in over 75 countries around the globe.
Risk is a fast-growing Thomson Reuters business. It focuses on connecting our customers’ business to the ever- changing regulatory environment, and client groups include compliance, audit, legal and risk functions in financial services, law firms, accounting firms, regulators, insurance, energy and other industries undergoing regulatory change. The business currently has revenues of over $130m and has over 750 employees located in major locations in London, New York, Washington DC, Minnesota, Dubai and Sydney. It is the world’s largest dedicated GRC group and has over 10,000 customers. Industry expectations are that governance, risk and compliance market will grow rapidly worldwide over the next few years. Thomson Reuters is well positioned to take advantage of these increasing opportunities. The business is expected to grow at double digits or more over the next 5 years.
The content available in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence consists of a library of legal and regulatory content from different jurisdictions from around the world, that clients use to ensure they satisfy their regulatory and legal obligations and a stream of event monitoring to ensure they stay current with the latest developments.
The Compliance Attorney Editor provides regulatory and compliance interpretation in the form of analysis, writing, and research, to support the acquisition and/or production of compliance information, data, and products for Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and other products.
About the Role:
In this opportunity as Compliance Attorney Editor your responsibilities include research and analysis to support content creation and preparation, monitoring of trends and developments within assigned topical areas, and troubleshooting of content and production issues:
Legal Research, Writing & Analysis:
- Analyzes statutes and regulations and writes plain-English synopsis summarizing compliance requirements
- Reviews and edits legal information created by other employees
- Identifies key legal issues in editorial materials
Editorial Responsibility:
- Adheres to editorial publishing schedules and quality standards
- Verifies own work as required for accuracy, completeness, and quality and ensures that the information is properly presented and organized
- Maintains and develops legal knowledge and skills training as required to complete work and stay current on regulatory and compliance trends and developments related to the employee’s editorial responsibilities
Individual and Leadership Development:
- Participates in the employee evaluation process (both wider feedback and self-evaluation)
- Learns and grows from on-the job experiences, other staff members, courses, self-study, and Quality control processes
Scope and Impact:
- Prioritizes own work, and participates in prioritization of team workload as required
- Assists in identifying business issues and proactively proposes solutions and implements as directed
- Begins to demonstrate the ability to work more independently
- Interprets customer needs, assesses requirements and proactively identifies and implements solutions within guidelines
About You:
You’re a fit for the role of Compliance Attorney Editor if you:
Technical /Professional Skills & Competencies:
- Strong legal research, writing, and analytical skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to interpret, analyze, select, organize, and communicate complex legal material
- Demonstrates proficiency on company specific systems necessary to perform job functions and in navigation and on-line research tools
- Ability to prioritize tasks/projects
- Works collaboratively across teams and assists others to accomplish objectives as required
- Ability to communicate appropriately and effectively with all contacts, both in and outside Thomson Reuters
Relationships: External/Internal:
- Effectively works within team to accomplish objectives as required
- Begins to develop and maintain relationships with content providers and stakeholders as required, escalating issues as appropriate
Certifications/ Education:
- JD from accredited law school
- Maintains professional designations with required continuing education
Professional Experience:
- Begins to demonstrate proficiency in legal editing with Thomson Reuters systems and processes
- Begins to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of Thomson Reuters publications and products related to employees’ responsibilities, and some knowledge of competitors
- Experience in the insurance industry or insurance compliance preferred
Behavioral Competencies:
- Driving results
- Collaborating across boundaries
- Focusing on customers
- Championing innovation
- Seeking opportunities to learn, grow, and act as a role model
What’s in it For You?
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
- Our Culture: You will have the opportunity to work for a company that has a market dominant position and is passionate about giving back to the community
- Learning & Development: You will be joining a team that has the commitment of the company to prioritize growth and has made investments to expand our capabilities
- Benefits: Extraordinary benefits package including health benefits, savings/investment plans, and paid time off
- Social Impact: Global volunteer network, organized virtual volunteer events, 2 paid volunteer workdays a year, company matching for personal charitable giving and fundraising
- Compensation: Base salary and a variable compensation that is directly related to your success
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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