Employment and Investigations Counsel

2 weeks ago


Singapore Nomura Asia Full time

Company overview

Department overview:


Legal department partners with management, business and other corporate divisions to support business to achieve long-term and sustainable business success with significant emphasis on ethics, compliance and conduct.

Within legal department, we have transaction legal team that supports respective business as well as corporate and regional legal that provides legal advice and support to the respective regional management and entities.


Role description:


This is a regional role based in Singapore, with (i) primary reporting to the Head of Employment Legal (AEJ), and (ii) secondary reporting to a member of the Litigation and Investigations team (AEJ).


Regional coverage includes the following locations:
Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, S. Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and Australia.

Responsibilities:

  • Advising on legal aspects of HR processes and operations
  • Preparing and maintaining employmentrelated letter templates, employment handbooks and policies
  • Supporting ER matters, performance cases, employeerelated investigations and disciplinary matters
  • Handling labour disputes and employment litigation, including wrongful termination claims
  • Advising on employeerelated data privacy issues
  • Working with external counsel where needed
  • Assist in dealing with and managing investigations (regulatory and/or internal) across the firm's business activities
  • Reviewing investigation materials, conduct interviews, prepare investigation reports
  • Respond to enquiries and requests from regulatory authority, law enforcement unit and internal stakeholders.
  • Working with external counsel where needed
(as above)

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

  • Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 3+ years experience of employment legal and employee relations and/or disputes in Asia
  • Litigation experience is also a requirement
  • Experience within the financial services industry industry
  • Ability to cope with highly demanding and fast paced banking environment
  • Demonstrate sound commercial experience and judgment
  • Good interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills, and take ownership of issues and matters to their successful conclusion
  • Demonstrated integrity and ability to foster a compliance culture
  • Excellent organizational skills, including ability to prioritize and manage projects and templates
  • Solid legal drafting skills
  • Inhouse experience preferred
  • Mandarin language proficiency (read, write, speak) will be a plus

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.


DISCLAIMER:

This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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