Legal Counsel - Employment Lawyer - Manager - Permanent - London

The opportunity

We have a vacancy for an additional employment lawyer within our high performing and ambitious in-house legal team. We respond to business transformation and innovation, enjoying a varied and challenging workload, and support the new EY All in Strategy by showing curiosity, intelligence, and energy to deliver prompt, pragmatic, adaptable and commercial legal advice to all levels within our business.

Your key responsibilities

The work carried out by our existing team of 4 London based employment lawyers within the UK Legal team is highly varied and covers all legal issues arising from the running of a professional services business.

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

To qualify for the role, you must have :

What we look for

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

What working at EY offers

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 :

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. Our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer a reality.