Senior Employment Lawyer Europe (London, GB, E14 5HQ)

HSBC
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Pragmatic judgment","Stakeholder management","Clear communication","Risk assessment","Mentoring"]

Shape employment risk advice across HSBC’s Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business in Europe. As a senior in-house employment lawyer, you’ll provide expert guidance on employment, benefits, and incentives, spanning advisory, contentious, and regulatory matters. Identify and mitigate legal and reputational risks, partner with People, Legal, Compliance, and Risk stakeholders, and navigate works councils and local regulatory frameworks while delivering pragmatic, risk-aware solutions.

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Senior Employment Lawyer Europe (London, GB, E14 5HQ)

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Job Summary

Shape employment risk advice across HSBC’s Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business in Europe. As a senior in-house employment lawyer, you’ll provide expert guidance on employment, benefits, and incentives, spanning advisory, contentious, and regulatory matters. Identify and mitigate legal and reputational risks, partner with People, Legal, Compliance, and Risk stakeholders, and navigate works councils and local regulatory frameworks while delivering pragmatic, risk-aware solutions.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide expert legal advice and guidance on employment, benefits, and incentives matters across CIB in Europe.
  • •Identify, report, and help mitigate legal and reputational risks across the area of coverage.
  • •Oversee a varied caseload spanning advisory, contentious, and regulatory employment work.
  • •Partner with People, Legal, Compliance, and Risk colleagues across global teams to support CIB priorities.
  • •Develop junior team members’ skills and contribute to an inclusive high-performance culture.

Key Requirements

  • •Qualification as a lawyer with substantial post-qualification employment law experience.
  • •Experience advising within financial services, including wholesale investment banking environments.
  • •International experience working with works councils and regulatory frameworks.
  • •Ability to manage contentious and regulatory matters with sound judgement and clear risk assessment.
  • •Deliver employment legal advice balancing technical rigour with practical commercial outcomes.
Experience:Financial servicesWholesale investment bankingEmployment lawRegulated financial servicesWorks councils
Skills:Pragmatic judgmentStakeholder managementClear communicationRisk assessmentMentoring

Company Brief

HSBC
Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865
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Glassdoor: 3.6
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