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Employment Legal Counsel

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Job Description:

Job Title: Employment Legal Counsel

Location: London

Corporate Title: Vice President

In this role for an Employment lawyer you will provide legal advice across the UKI and Europe on the full range of employment law issues which impact Deutsche Banks business and infrastructure functions in the region, with primary focus on the UK. Reporting to the Regional Head of Employment Legal, you will be part of a team of 3 employment lawyers (including the team lead). 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.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

  • 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

Your 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.
  • Working 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 identifying, addressing and managing legal risk arising with employment law matters.
  • Proactively and cost effectively managing all aspects of employment related litigation and disputes, including instructing and managing external counsel
  • Advising the HR Reward team on all aspects of compensation, deferred compensation and benefit delivery including remuneration regulations.
  • Working with Compliance on Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) related matters including conduct rule breach assessment and regulatory references
  • Working with the HR team and other stakeholders on a variety of internal working groups on key projects- previous examples include SMCR and recent NFM guidance, impact of the ERA 2025 reforms
  • Advising and reviewing HR and other bank policies and procedures; including design and delivery employment law training for HR and other stakeholders

Your skills and experience

  • 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

How we’ll support you

  • Training and development to help you excel in your career
  • Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
  • Coaching and support from experts in your team
  • A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
  • We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Proud Employer Trailblazer Status from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge at [email protected] to discuss. For more information about our recruitment process and available adjustments, please visit our Hiring Experience page.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

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