WHAT YOU\'LL DO

BCG is partnering with our clients to tackle some of the world\xe2\x80\x99s biggest and most pressing challenges. Grounded by our values and guided by our purpose, we are unlocking the potential of those who advance the world. Our Global Legal Team is a key enabler of our firm\xe2\x80\x99s success, helping to drive impact and progress across a number of important dimensions.

As a Legal team member, you will be responsible for supporting our client screening process, Client Clear. We aspire to continuously monitor existing clients and review all new clients prior to engagement to complete our due diligence, mitigate any potential risks, and ensure appropriate business decision escalations occur during the client commercial process. This includes screening all new clients and initiating the process to mitigate any potential risks found. You will play an important role in the Legal Team to help reduce risk in our commercial activities, while implementing Agile principles in your day-to-day work.

Your primary responsibility will be as a member of the firm-wide client screening program. You will identify, remediate, and track any potential risks while developing controls, and managing escalations. You will be expected to maintain systematic and process related improvements with an eye to ensuring that the program is inclusive of all practice areas, regions, and clients of the firm.

On a day-to-day basis, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Review of new Clients through BCG\xe2\x80\x99s pipeline to ensure the client screening process has commenced, as required

• Review and triage of alerts and reports around regulatory / non-regulatory reviews of our clients based on the specific topic areas including (but not limited to): Bribery and corruption, financial stability, negative media profiles, sanctions, restricted topics / industries, exclusivity arrangements
• Facilitate the escalation process for decision making with relevant parties, including Managing Directors and Partners (MDPs), Practice Area Leaders (PALs), Client Portfolio Committees (CPCs), Compliance, as required
• Develop and report on compliance metrics for screening activity
• Adhere to SLA\xe2\x80\x99s; escalating any quality or timeliness issues with management for mitigation
• Work with our software vendor and agile Legal squad teams to customize the system to meet our needs.
• Partner with the Legal, Client, Risk/Compliance, IT and ClientView teams to continuously improve the ClientClear tool and process.

In addition, you may also be asked to contribute and participate in other global Legal Team initiatives:

• Contribute to content development of new concepts, guidelines, tools and programs for other global topics as needed
• Cross training on other critical legal processes as required
  

YOU\'RE GOOD AT

• Excellent work management, organizational and planning skills, attention to detail, efficient time management
• Excellent written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively and concisely with senior leadership
• Excellent verbal communication and listening skills; ability to communicate effectively with, and be credible with, BCG Managing Directors and Partners and other senior leadership
• Talent for absorbing new skill sets and areas of expertise quickly and comfortably
• A positive, dynamic, client-focused approach
• Perform successfully and produce results in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, client-oriented environment
• Being a pragmatic, high-energy professional, with personal and professional self-confidence
• Being proactive, hardworking and a team player who leads by being persuasive and credible and has the interpersonal skills necessary to build relationships throughout a loosely structured organization
• Ability to navigate across functions within BCG effectively and build relationships
• Proven ability to work closely and effectively with stakeholders in a collaborative manner across functions
• Ability to work independently in absence of daily supervision, exercise sound judgement and can take the initiative Persistent in reaching key objectives but tactful, patient and flexible to make progress

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

• 
  Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum of 1-4 years of experience in a fast-paced, intellectual environment
• Proven ability to work effectively on a distributed team delivering on high priority initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with internal stakeholders and external vendors
• Ability to work independently with general direction
• Strong skills in Windows office (particularly Excel and PowerPoint); other platforms a plus
• French language skills highly preferred
  

YOU\'LL WORK WITH

Various members of our BCG Legal team, functional leaders within our Risk, Compliance and IT teams, as well as vendors supporting our technology products