Mandarin speaking Job-Legal Counsel-London-rj

  • First People Recruitment
  • Dec 17, 2022
Full time Legal

Job Description

  • £Competitive depending on experience + bonus + benefit
  • Permanent
  • Central London
  • Ref: 21399

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Ref: 21399 Your New Job Title:Mandarin speaking Legal Counsel, London

The Skills You'll Need: Excellent skills in Mandarin and English, qualified UK Solicitor or Barrister, with solid post qualification working experience

Your New Salary: Competitive depending on experience + bonus + benefit

Location: Central London

Job status: Permanent

Who You'll Be Working for:

A growing international bank now emerging into the UK and European market.

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

  • are fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English
  • have solid HR experience in Banking / Finance / Insurance sector
  • have solid HR experience in the UK

If that means this job isn't a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

What You'll be Doing Each Day:

  • To implement and maintain the policies and procedures that reflect best practice and that are compliant with employment legislation and regulatory requirements
  • To delivery support to hiring managers and key stakeholders to ensure their understanding of the Bank's policies and procedures.
  • To lead recruitment and candidates selection activities to ensure that the Bank is able to attract and appoint candidates of an appropriate calibre through comprehensive assignment briefs to agencies, communication with candidates during recruitment and at offer stage
  • To ensure the development and maintenance of an induction programme that will ensure new hires receive the information they require to quickly integrate into the Bank and be aware of their responsibilities.
  • To develop and implement initiatives to promote the engagement of employees in order to achieve high level business performance including development of the Bank's corporate culture, performance management and communications, and to manage conflict, discipline and grievance resolution
  • To develop an annual learning and development plan and work with business areas to identify the learning and development activities required to meet business and personal objectives
  • To manage remuneration and benefits to ensure that the Bank is able to attract and retain its employees
  • To manage relationship with benefits suppliers
  • To manage employees relationship
  • To ensure the efficient delivery of the monthly payroll process
  • To ensure that payroll processes are compliant with legislation and HMRC regulations.
  • To ensure that all expatriate assignments are managed in line with the Head Office policy and in compliance with Home Office requirements.
  • To provide Provision of an efficient service for centralized internal administration matters and co-ordination of external relations
  • To manage relationship with the Bank's appointed facilities management provider to make sure that agreed standards of performance are met
  • Other duties assigned by line manager

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

  • Fluent Mandarin and English in speaking and writing
  • A successful track record as a HR professional with experience of developing and delivering people strategies, especially in a multiple culture background.
  • UK HR experience in banking / financial institutions / insurance sector
  • Able to possess a sound grasp of employment law and demonstrate a rigorous approach to people management, covering all aspects of recruitment and selection, performance management, learning and development, reward, employee engagement and payroll management.
  • Holding a CIPD qualification or qualified by experience
  • Holding a degree of Human Resources Management or equivalent would be ideal

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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