Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law, SC Ventures
Full Time 
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Job Description
Role Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Employment lawyer t o advise on and manage all employment law matters and to help mitigate reputational, financial and regulatory related risks arising from people issues across SC Ventures.
Responsibilities
Advisory
Litigation/disputes
Key stakeholders *
Role Specific Technical Competencies
Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law, SC Ventures
We are seeking an experienced Employment lawyer t o advise on and manage all employment law matters and to help mitigate reputational, financial and regulatory related risks arising from people issues across SC Ventures.
Responsibilities
Advisory
- Advising on the employment aspects of the set-up of new ventures and entities, including intra-group transfers of employees
- Advising on and managing employment issues across the SC Ventures footprint, including investigations, accountability reviews, material disciplinary and grievance matters, performance management, redundancies, restructures and contentious/senior exits and requests from data subjects
- Managing relevant stakeholders and providing accurate and timely updates regarding the status of disputes or issues
- Developing the skills to support and advise the Performance, Reward and Benefits team with the drafting of employee incentives documents and the implementation of such share schemes
- Advising on employment law aspects of global HR policy or strategy projects, and co-ordinating advice from other members of the Employment Law team, the SC Ventures legal team and/or external counsel
- Advising on diversity and inclusion initiatives and/or communications
- Keeping relevant stakeholders updated on employment law best practice and changes to relevant laws/regulations
- Employment law support for M&A integration, including advice on staff consultation obligations and restructuring and/or employee transfer provisions
- Updating the SCV HR team on legal developments, and supporting with upskilling of the HR SCV team to be able to advise on day-to-day aspects of employee management
- Advising on employment contracts and employee policies, particularly on set up of a new business or entity
- Ensuring good maintenance, consistency and governance of global contractual templates and employee policies
- Engaging and manage external counsel for jurisdictions where internal employment law expertise is not in place
- Reviewing and negotiating external counsel/supplier quotes and costs to ensure best value for the business
- Ensuring external counsel invoices and costs are logged through the internal case management system (Team Connect) for cost and productivity tracking purposes
Litigation/disputes
- Advising on and managing employment litigation/disputes globally for SC Ventures
- Liaising with external legal counsel regarding the strategic approach to employment law disputes, critically assessing advice received and tailoring this to the relevant business/organisation
- Collaborating with the corporate communications team to manage reputational risk
- Identifying and analysing opportunities for settlement and advise Human Resources (HR), Employee Relations (ER) and/or business stakeholders on settlement strategy
- Preparing and negotiate settlement terms
Key stakeholders *
- Other SMEs across SCB's legal function
- SCV Legal
- SCV Human Resources (including PRB)
- SCV Business and Function Stakeholders
- SCV Compliance
- SCB Employee Relations
- SCB Shared Investigative Services
- External Legal Advisors
- Must be qualified to practice as a solicitor or barrister in a common law jurisdiction
- Must have dedicated employment experience in private practice or in-house in Singapore, including handling complex employment disputes and issues.
- 5+ years PQE experience
- Experience in:
- employment litigation
- drafting and advising on employment contracts and policies
- advising on employee relations issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, redundancy/restructure and termination of employment
- incentives/employee benefits experience (preferred)
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Excellent organizational skills required in order to assimilate and analyse information regarding relevant background facts
- Excellent analytical skills to review background facts and identify the key legal issues raised by the employment dispute or issue
- Excellent communication skills in order to discuss the key legal issues with external legal advisers and to discuss and agree the approach with the internal stakeholders
- Disciplined approach towards timelines and tracking all steps required in order to manage matters and implement a strategic approach
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Valued Behaviours and Code of Conduct
Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law, SC Ventures
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