Employment Lawyer India- Legal Counsel

Your role

Do you have experience dealing with employment legal matters in India? Do you thrive on managing a diverse case load? Do you enjoy partnering closely with stakeholders to provide strategic legal advice? We're looking for someone like this to:
• provide employment legal advice and support for our India operations
• partner closely with various functions like Human Resources, Employee Relations, Group Investigations and a range of business clients, to deliver quality and practical legal advice and solutions
• strategically and proactively manage employment legal risks and contentious employment issues, including employment litigation

Your team

You'll be working in the APAC Employment Legal team as India legal counsel based in Pune or Mumbai. We're responsible for all employment legal issues across all our business divisions in India. You'll work within a collaborative and diverse regional team of lawyers, and report into the South Asia team lead of APAC Employment Legal.

Your expertise

• India qualified lawyer with solid post-qualification experience (PQE) - ideally 5 years +
• experience in managing employment legal issues (ideally in financial services), either in private practice or in house
• strong understanding of Indian labour and employment laws and regulations, in particular concerning HR operations, investigations, disciplinary, and termination scenarios.
• self-motivated individual who is capable of delivering clear, solution-oriented, firm but fair, commercial and practical legal advice aligned with business objectives, while ensuring compliance with applicable law
• strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable in engaging and persuading all levels of employees, including senior management
• sound critical thinking, problem-solving and negotiating skills, with the ability to apply those skills to a wide range of HR issues
• excellent organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to set priorities, manage multiple responsibilities and deliver against deadlines
• curiosity to stay updated on legal and regulatory changes affecting our workforce in India, with the ability to train a non-legal audience on legal concepts or developments in the law
• high standard of literacy in English, both written and oral; national and local language proficiency useful but not mandatory