Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law, SC Ventures

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

• 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

Processes

• 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

Our Ideal Candidate

• 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

About SC Ventures
SC Ventures ("SCV") was established in 2018 with the purpose of "Rewiring the DNA in Banking" by bringing three distinct areas together:

• The eXellerator Lab, enabling innovation at large in the Bank by supporting intrapreneurs and their ideas, collaborating with fintech's through the SCV Fintech Bridge and engaging with clients and co-creation ideas
• The Investment Fund ("Fund"), tasked to acquire minority stakes in fintech companies ("fintechs") whose technology has been successfully validated in the Group
• Venture building, with the objective of exploring new business models ("ventures"), in the way it engages existing new customers and markets.

There are c.65 team members (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nairobi, London and San Francisco.

Senior Legal Counsel, Employment Law, SC Ventures