# Employment Legal Counsel

**Company**: Deutsche Bank
**Location**: London, 21 Moorfields
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an Employment Legal Counsel to join our team in London. As an Employment lawyer, you will provide legal advice across the UKI and Europe on the full range of employment law issues which impact Deutsche Bank's business and infrastructure functions in the region, with primary focus on the UK.

You will be part of a team of 3 employment lawyers (including the team lead) and report to the Regional Head of Employment Legal. The work spans a wide range of advisory, contentious and regulatory matters in a regulated financial services environment. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders across HR, Legal, Central Investigations Function, Compliance and AFC as well as the business in the region.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide pragmatic and strategic legal advice and guidance on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law work primarily in the UK.

- Work with the Employee Relations team and HR Business Partners and Advisers to provide legal support and advice on employee relations matters including grievances, disciplinaries, flexible working applications, redundancies and redundancy appeals, performance management, TUPE transfers etc.

- Proactively identify, address and manage legal risk arising with employment law matters.

- Proactively and cost-effectively manage all aspects of employment-related litigation and disputes, including instructing and managing external counsel.

- Advise the HR Reward team on all aspects of compensation, deferred compensation and benefit delivery including remuneration regulations.

- Work with Compliance on Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) related matters including conduct rule breach assessment and regulatory references.

- Work with the HR team and other stakeholders on a variety of internal working groups on key projects.

- Advise and review HR and other bank policies and procedures; including design and delivery of employment law training for HR and other stakeholders.

**Requirements:**

- Lawyer/solicitor qualified in England and Wales with significant post-qualification employment law experience.

- Comprehensive relevant employment law experience (gained either in private practice or the in-house legal team, ideally of a financial services organisation).

- Previous experience in advising on compensation and benefits matters, including share schemes and remuneration regulations would be beneficial.

- Ability to deliver employment legal advice that balances technical legal expertise with pragmatic strategic outcomes.

- Develops constructive relationships with stakeholders and partners effectively to deliver advice and guidance.

- Communicates clearly, and where appropriate persuasively, in writing and verbally with stakeholders across all areas of the bank.

- Organises time and manages competing priorities effectively and efficiently to ensure deadlines are met.

- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

**What we offer:**

- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.

- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.

- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.

- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.

- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.

- The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year.

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## Skills

### Required
- Employment Law
- Financial Services
- Regulatory Compliance
- Litigation Management
- Compensation and Benefits
- Remuneration Regulations
- AI Tools

### Nice to have
- Share Schemes
- TUPE Transfers
- SMCR
- Conduct Rule Breach Assessment
- Regulatory References

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