Senior Employment Counsel, Travelex
12 Month FTC Maternity Cover
Office located in Kingsway, London
Foreign exchange platform
Job no longer available
Foreign exchange platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Kingsway, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify its customers’ access to international money, however and whenever.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified UK lawyer, 6-10 years PQE
- From a major law firm or current in-house role – previous in-house or client secondment experience desirable
- Solid experience in all aspects of employment law (including in relation to corporate matters such as TUPE and supplier contracts etc)
- Experience of advising international companies on employment and associated legislation, contractual arrangements, policies and procedures
- Commercial and business focused approach essential, with experience in negotiating commercial as well as legal points
- Collaborative and accessible approach, able to build mutually beneficial relationships, and good communication, influencing and presentation skills
- A self-motivated, proactive hard worker with the ability to work well under pressure, meet deadlines and manage a varied and high volume workload
What the job involves
- We are seeking a commercially minded senior lawyer who specialises in employment law to cover maternity on a 12 month FTC
- This role is the sole employment lawyer in the business (reporting to the General Counsel)
- You will need to work with minimal supervision and will be a SME. You will have one direct report to manage who is a Paralegal
- The role is a global role and requires you to provide employment law advice across international employment legislation, practice and policy
- You will work closely with the HR function, and build and maintain strong relationships across all areas of Travelex in order to provide timely and commercial employment law support
- To provide commercially focused and high quality legal advice in relation to the Travelex group's UK and global employment law matters
- To be a trusted legal adviser to the Group's General Counsel, members of the Exec and the senior HR and senior leadership team
- To assess, plan and prioritise all employment legal work and, where necessary, instruct external legal counsel to provide value-for-money support
- To effectively identify, assess and manage legal risk and to influence stakeholders
- To ensure appropriate proactive reporting on, and escalating of, key employment legal matters
- To perform general HR advisory work plus advising on systems and processes being used or introduced by the HR team
- To review and advise on employment and settlement contracts for colleagues at different levels of the organisation across multiple jurisdictions
- To oversee the review of employment/HR policies and ensure that they are up to date
- To assist with contentious aspects of employment law and oversee employment litigation
- To support the business with the employment aspects of transactions (acquisitions, disposals, JVs) as well as the employment implications of partner and supplier contracts
- To oversee the growth and maintenance of a high quality employment law precedent bank to enable standard documents to be prepared, adapted and produced rapidly
- To keep abreast of and provide guidance on legislative developments with employment law implications and their potential impact on the business units and operations
- To review and advise on matters and documentation related to contingent workers and consultants/contractors/ NEDs
- To have oversight of UK immigration law matters and global mobility (in depth knowledge of immigration law not essential)
- To maintain oversight of spend on external employment legal advice
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As well as providing people with cash to travel, Travelex is a key supplier of wholesale banknotes to global financial institutions, central banks, credit unions, travel agencies, hotels and casinos. The company's many strategic partnerships and developments have made it a powerhouse in the sector.
For example, with Nium it launched “Travelex International Money Transfer”, connecting users in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore with over 50 markets across the world. And its partnership with Kayak helps customers plan trips within its overhauled Money Card app.
Travelex has been developing solutions that support their B2B2C aspirations and working with retail distributions to give customers the opportunity to self-serve more at the airport or pre-trip. It also launched "Travelex Plus", a loyalty programme which has had over 150,000 members sign up in less than a year.
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Company benefits
- Additional Benefits Vary by Location
- 22 Days Plus Bank Holidays Pro-Rata
- Employee Discount Platform with Everyday Rewards by Bravo at Hundreds of Shops & Online Stores
- Employee Assistance Program
- Season Ticket Loan/Ride to Work Scheme
- Life & Dental Insurance, Critical Illness Cover
Company HQ
Peterborough, UK
Leadership
Philip Bowcock
(CEO)Chair at Victoria Plumbing. Experience as CEO at CountryWide and William HIll.
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