Senior Employment Lawyer

A well-known and fast-growing digital bank is looking to appoint a senior employment lawyer to support the business on all contentious and non-contentious employment matters, reporting directly to the Group Head of Employment Legal.
This is a high-visibility role with significant influence across the group, including line management of an employment lawyer within the team.

What’s involved:
• Advising the People team and wider business on all aspects of employment law, including SMCR and FCA Code of Conduct issues
• Managing legal support across the full employee lifecycle — hiring, executive service agreements, dismissals, grievances, disciplinaries and settlement agreements
• Supporting the corporate and commercial legal functions on TUPE matters
• Advising on regulatory issues associated with financial services and banking
• Managing international employment projects across EMEA and globally, working with external counsel
• Advising the Reward team on compensation arrangements, including malus, clawback and deferred compensation
• Delivering employment law training across the business

About you:
• Excellent legal training with 6–10 years’ PQE gained at a law firm and/or in-house
• Very strong technical employment law experience
• Experience within financial services
• Experience handling regulatory issues in the context of SMCR, conduct, remuneration matters and regulatory inquiries
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

For more information or a confidential discussion please contact Tracy Brown on 020 3743 0695 or email tracy@fryandbrown.com

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