Legal compliance analyst

Amiqus is the UK’s most trusted compliance and onboarding platform, enabling simple, fast and secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, our software makes it easy for everyone involved.

We’re trusted by Governments, NHS, Banks and 600+ regulated organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster. 

• Salary £50k - 55k 

• Vitality private health cover & insurance benefits 

• 34 days annual leave

• 5% matched pension contribution on qualifying earnings 

• 12 paid personal development days annually with dedicated budget

• Hybrid working valuing outcomes over in-person hours

• We’re one of the UK’s 50 fastest growing tech companies, ranked by Deloitte Fast50 and part of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty 2024 cohort. 

• We’re scaling sustainably, backed by external investment on a 10x plan tracking from £5m ARR, with expectations to exceed £50m ARR within four years.

• Join a purpose driven, ambitious team of 75+ as we 10x our impact.

The Legal Compliance Analyst is a vital role within the Security, Audit, Risk and Compliance (SARC) Team and focuses on legal and compliance activities across Amiqus. This role is key to how we operate as a business and oversees vital areas of output such as contract reviews, terms and conditions, notices, client compliance, data protection and other legal and compliance considerations as detailed below. This role works closely with the other members of the SARC team and across commercial and client facing teams. 

Contracts and Client Facing Activity

• Act as the main POC for all contract and legal reviews; events, clients, third party or any other contracts or legal work as required

• Work with our internal Sales team to drive and own legal activity 

• Review and update client contracts as appropriate

• Conduct due diligence assessments for clients, software requests, third parties and act as a first point of escalation for due diligence compliance queries

• Own the G-Cloud contract space and update where required 

• Join client facing calls and able to run legal discussions with significant client legal teams 

Legal Compliance Activity

• Review and update client compliance queries as appropriate, working with the client facing teams

• Update our legal documentation where required such as DPIA, Record Of Processing Activities (ROPA) and our privacy and business terms

• Complete legal compliance reviews of Business Cases put forward by Amiqus staff, including software requests and events

• Act as legal internal SME on working groups and projects such as managed services, product updates etc

Data Protection

• Support day to day organisational compliance activities to ensure alignment with policies, standards, industry regulations and legislative changes

• Organise and support the DPO with the annual audit of our GDPR compliance and the outcomes of the audit

• Attend bi-weekly calls with our DPO and management of the DPO agenda items

• Support Data Protection activity across the organisation, ensuring key documentations such as DPIA, ROPA and any policies or procedures are updated and reflect regulations and best standards 

• Oversee data processing considerations and support on any activity where Amiqus acts as the Data Processor or Controller 

General Activity

• Support audit activity relating to our certifications where required 

• Complete blogs and content for internal and external awareness on our legal and compliance activity within SARC to grow awareness both internally and externally 

• Create, maintain and audit compliance standard operating procedures (SOPs) against Data Protection and other relevant regulations

Training

• Conduct and organise basic GDPR training & refreshers with all employees across the business and work with others to be able to run this training and with DPO

• Upskill others where required to conduct or support contractual reviews 

• Work with client facing teams on client compliance specific training

• You will be a Legal Compliance expert with proven experience and success in a similar role working across contracts and legal compliance in a tech SaaS business.

• Law degree or equivalent professional learning and experience 

• 3-5 years previous experience in a similar role 

• Strong commercial and communication skills and the ability to represent Amiqus on external client and third party calls to discuss contracts and due diligence 

• Autonomy to own and oversee all requirements pertaining to legal compliance, data protection and legal operations

• Previous experience working in a fast paced and reactive organisation

• Experience working at an enterprise level market alongside mid market and SME businesses and the legal expectation between them

• Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001/27701) and contract law.

• Comfortable owning and being responsible for this business area, working within our SARC team, collaborating with other business teams and individuals.

• Detail oriented, with a passion for driving best practices across legal, data protection and compliance.

• A strong communicator both internally and externally, able to join client facing calls with their legal teams.

• Commercially aware of the wider business goals with a strong ability to align our legal compliance and contracts to business needs. 
  
  
  
  

We think it’s important to have an open and transparent process. The process might vary slightly but here’s what to expect:

●    An initial conversation with a recruiter, people experience team or hiring manager

●    Interview with a senior team member/hiring manager and one other team member

●    Structured Panel interview and presentation for shortlisted candidates

●    References followed by role offer

We recognise that diverse teams outperform. Perspectives and people of all backgrounds are welcome at Amiqus. 

We enable our people to do their best work and reward them based on performance. We acknowledge our moral and legal responsibilities to promote equal opportunities and pursue equality in all of our work.

If there’s anything we can do to make sure you have a positive interview experience, please let us know.

Lastly, as you might expect, we care about privacy and have a  which explains how we handle your information and data.

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What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and shares 

• Vitality private health cover and insurance benefits 

• 34 days annual leave

• 5% matched pension contribution on qualifying earnings 

• 12 paid personal development days annually with dedicated budget

• Enhanced family leave

• Hybrid working valuing outcomes over in-person hours

• A supportive and collaborative team environment where you can be your true self and do your best work