EY Legal Counsel - Employment Lawyer Manager Permanent London 

United Kingdom, England, London 

46318237

Your key responsibilities

Your work will include:

• Proactively identifying, assessing, and balancing employment law risk, and offering practical, business-oriented, and creative solutions in partnership with key stakeholders on a broad range of partner and employment issues.
• Advising on complex grievance, disciplinary and dismissal processes, including negotiated settlements.
• Providing strategic litigation support to our Talent function on Employment Tribunal claims.
• Supporting commercial legal colleagues in negotiating employment related aspects of client contracts, master service agreements and tenders, with a particular focus on TUPE, including transfer of teams into EY.
• Advising on employment aspects of corporate acquisitions and internal projects.
• Conducting sensitive and empathetic investigations in relation to business and conduct issues, including whistleblowing reports and external complaints.
• Reviewing and recommending changes to policies, procedures, and standard documentation to reflect changes in the law as well as our commitment to building a better working world.
• Advising on post-termination restrictions.
• Providing training to internal stakeholders on employment related risks and processes.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong team player with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• Demonstrable commitment to the attributes of our highest performing teams – focus on results, accepting of accountability, committed, embraces healthy conflict, builds trust.
• Keeps calm and copes well with conflicting and ever-changing deadlines.
• Ability to lead, provide a view, take responsibility and ownership of issues, including an ability to take difficult decisions and provide substantiated arguments.
• Commercial awareness of the business issues facing us as we evolve, coupled with an active desire to get alongside our business, offering legal insight and support.
• Ability to thrive in our fast-paced collaborative culture.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Approximately 6 or more years of post-qualification employment law experience.
• Gained either in a reputable City law firm (or equivalent) and/or in-house.

What we look for

A self-starter, adept at responding promptly/juggling deadlines who actively looks to build relationships based on trust and confidence.

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible
working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around.
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.