Employment Lead - Legal

White Collar Factory (95009), United Kingdom, London, London

Employment Lead - Legal

As the Employment Lead in UK Legal, you’ll be taking on a new role within our UK business, partnering with our fantastic Human Resources (HR) team. 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 Legal. 

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

• Supervising junior members of the legal team that will from time to time be supporting on employment matters (this role will not have any direct reports, but will have access to resources and support from across the Legal team) 

• 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 

• Being a senior and active part of the UK Legal team, including leading on department initiatives, sharing knowledge and participating in team events

What you'll bring

• A very 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

• A strong understanding of the financial services market and broader economic and regulatory environment 

• 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

• Willingness and ability to step into an influencing role across industry bodies, regulators and external professional contacts to drive business outcomes

• 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 either our Nottingham or London office.  

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our offices 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and can work from home on Monday and Friday. If you are London based, regular travel to Nottingham will be required.

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, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies

• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates

• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all

• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech

• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com  All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.