Senior Legal Counsel – Employment Law
- 7PQE
- Location: London
- Type: Permanent, full time
The Opportunity
- You will be required to provide pragmatic and effective legal advice and support to the People function and the business in the UK and across Europe.
- This will encompass advising on a wide variety of employment issues including but not limited to disciplinaries and grievances, recruitment, restructures and organisational changes, contractual issues and reviews, policies, compensation and benefits, business transfers and service provision changes, redundancies, negotiated exits and regulatory issues.
About you
- Be a qualified employment lawyer with at least 7 years post-qualification experience (experience with advising regulated financial services entities a plus)
- Possess a thorough understanding of UK employment law
- Could think analytically and pragmatically and provide commercial, effective and proactive advice and guidance
- Have the confidence to act independently, take decisions and challenge the business where necessary
- Have strong interpersonal skills, an enthusiasm for the job you do, and a sense of humour.
- Be able to foster and develop relationships with key stakeholders.
- Be able to organise and prioritise workload and work under time pressures and deadlines.
For more information, please get in touch. Poppy.Taylor@ssq.com / 07534087340