Employment Lawyer – EMEA Group recruitment

Responsibilities will include:

Provide contentious and non-contentious specialist employment law advice and support to HR and business clients on all UK employment matters.
Where appropriate, instruct external counsel on UK employment matters and oversee management of firm including their advice and costs.
Manage advice on employment issues in other EMEA offices and oversee management of external counsel across EMEA including their advice and costs.
In consultation with EMEA Employee Relations, develop and keep under review standard documents and processes across EMEA.
Provide education and training to HR and the business on employment legal and policy issues across EMEA.
As a member of the Employment Legal Global Business Team, take on responsibility for cross-jurisdictional projects and reviews of policy.
Work closely with UBS’ employment lawyers in other regions and locations on location-specific and cross-jurisdictional matters.
Support the HR Performance, Reward and Analytics team on compensation and benefit related matters, including day-to-day enquiries, development of new products and review/amendment of existing products and plans.
Support the EMEA Employee Relations teams on day-to-day enquiries and ongoing matters.
Review UBS employee-related policies, processes and transactions.
Assistance with proactive management of employment risk generally, including design, roll-out and monitoring of strategies/projects.

Qualifications:

Significant level of PQE experience (or equivalent).
Excellent, up to date all round employment law experience gained in a well-known, significant employment law private practise, preferably complemented with experience gained in-house (ideally at a financial institution) whether on secondment or otherwise.

Attributes:

Outstanding technical employment legal skills on both contentious and non-contentious sides.
Level of experience and ability to enable strong management of significant caseload to an excellent standard without direct supervision, to include ability to make good judgement/risk calls (including as to whether matters should be escalated).
Confident and authoritative with outstanding communication, advisory and negotiation skills.
Strong commercial, business focussed approach based on significant previous experience.
Excellent, up to date understanding of significant employment legal risks for firms in the financial services sector.
Strong team skills with capability to work and contribute effectively as part of team.
Ability to adapt to changing priorities on a daily basis and to manage and prioritise work load efficiently and effectively.
Experience of managing employment legal issues in EMEA countries, both on a location-specific and cross-border basis.

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