Employment Lawyer

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

As a member of the Employment team in the UK, you’ll be taking on a new role within our UK business, partnering with our fantastic Human Resources (HR) and Legal teams. This will include: providing legal advice on Capital One’s compliance with employment laws, developing a strong relationship with HR to understand and support its objectives and priorities, monitoring and advising on legal changes and advising on related data protection issues.

You will be reporting into the Head of Employment.

What you’ll do

• Providing legal advice in relation to all aspects of Capital One's compliance with employment law

• Accountable for identifying changes to laws impacting the HR function and partnering with key stakeholders to ensure impacts are understood, and new requirements are effectively implemented

• Advising on and supporting through all stages of employee relations issues and investigations

• Drafting, reviewing and advising on employment contracts, policies and procedures

• Being a beacon for employment law knowledge and expertise. This will include preparation and delivery of employment law training across the organisation, including the HR function, as well as supporting the UK Leadership Team navigate risk in relation to employment law

• Supporting the business to manage any employee disputes, including employment tribunal claims

• Developing a strong relationship with HR to understand and provide strategic support across its objectives and priorities

• Partnering with HR risk and compliance stakeholders to identify, navigate and report on (to senior management and COEP’s Board) HR-related risks

• Advising on data protection issues impacting HR, including the processing of employee data and handling Data Subject Access requests

• Working alongside colleagues across UK Legal to ensure employment law advice is provided in the context of a financial services business, including understanding FCA rules and approach across firms’ cultures, people management and diversity and inclusion agendas

• Working alongside external counsel where necessary

• Building a network - both internally, through building relationships with the broader Capital One Enterprise, and externally, through external counsel and other in-house teams

What you’ll bring

• Significant experience as a qualified lawyer

• A high level of subject matter expertise and an ability to work autonomously

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, supporting others to make well informed decisions quickly

• Exceptional judgment, having confidence in decisions, whilst also knowing when to escalate matters

• Proven ability to build strong relationships and integrate with HR and senior leadership teams, in order to understand and support across their priorities and working styles

• Proven ability to think strategically - understanding the practical and long term implications of legal advice and risk

• Highly organised and motivated to ensure a high quality of output from a cross functional team, with a willingness to adapt and evolve style to meet the needs of stakeholders and internal policies and procedures

• Willingness to learn and contribute to HR, Legal and COEP business strategies

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and can work from home on Monday and Friday

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans,…