Employment Counsel

Employment Counsel

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

The successful candidate will form part of a busy and highly effective team of three senior lawyers who provide employment law support to the full range of businesses within Citi in EMEA.

• The role will report into a senior ELU lawyer.
• Would suit someone who is flexible and also has an interest in one or more of: European labour law practices, regulatory employment matters, and whistleblowing.
• To provide contentious and non-contentious employment advice within EMEA to a wide stakeholder base including the business, compliance, legal, HR, ER and management.

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What you’ll do

The role will involve a number of different responsibilities, Advising on/drafting employment policies and procedures, Advising on expatriate employment law issues, Drafting bespoke amendments to compromise agreements; contracts of employment, assignments, TUPE clauses while reporting into a senior lawyer.

The day-to-day responsibility for managing their own caseload with appropriate supervision and strategic input. Managing employment litigation, liaising with internal clients and external lawyers through the litigation process.

• Providing general employment advisory support to HR, ER, compliance, legal, management and the business;
• Assisting with performance management, employee disputes, disciplinaries and grievances;
• Advising on restructurings, off-shoring, redundancies, collective consultations, TUPE  transfers; sales and purchases (which often involves more than one jurisdiction);
• Assisting with data protection issues, e.g. subject access requests;
• Advising on contract, compensation and benefit issues, liaising with recruitment, HR, ER, compensation and benefits;
• Advising on contingent workers, status, disputes etc;
• Providing  employment advice and co-ordinating external counsel during regulatory investigations;
• Regulatory advice: whether on remuneration, references, senior manager regime or local equivalent, legal entity management

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What we’ll need from you

This challenging role will broaden and deepen the employee`s experience and knowledge of banking andfinancial services matters.

• Ability to broaden range of experience;
• Candidates should be qualified legal practitioners in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Co-ordinating employment advice in countries across the region including in Europe, the Middle East and Africa;
• Conducting internal investigations where appropriate;
• Ability to broaden depth of commercial knowledge  and ability to think commercially;
• The successful candidate will deal on a day-to-day basis with colleagues in Citi’s other control functions (in particular, HR, legal, Citi’s in-house security services and Compliance)

• Relevant non-contentious and contentious experience should ideally have been obtained either in private practice with a City firm or in-house with another significant financial institution.  
• Some understanding of banking/financial institutions or in house experience would be helpful.
• Some experience of working with non UK jurisdictions would be helpful.

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​What we can offer you

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

By joining Citi Dublin, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed) and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well. Discover more here.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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