Senior Paralegal, Group Employment

Role Description

• Act as a key member of the Group Employment Legal team, supporting both employment law and reward/compensation matters across FNZ’s global operations (UK, EU, North America and APMEA, including South Africa).

• Provide high-quality legal and administrative support on a broad range of employment lifecycle, employee relations and reward topics, ensuring consistency, compliance and scalability across jurisdictions.

• Partner closely with Legal, People, Finance and other stakeholders to deliver practical, commercially focused solutions, while enabling the Head of Legal, Group Employment and senior counsel to focus on high-risk and strategic matters.

• Operate in a fast-paced, highly regulated, international environment supporting a global workforce

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Support employment law matters across multiple jurisdictions, including drafting and reviewing employment contracts, amendments, policies and employee communications

• Assist with employee lifecycle matters, including hiring, performance processes, disciplinary matters, grievances and exits

• Provide support on restructurings, redundancies and collective consultation processes, including preparation of documentation and coordination across jurisdictions

• Maintain and update template documentation (employment contracts, policies, settlement agreements and governance materials)

• Support employment litigation and disputes, including document collection, case management and coordination with external counsel

• Assist with data privacy and confidentiality matters in an employment context, including handling Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), investigations and whistleblowing matters

• Provide support on global reward and compensation matters, including equity plans, incentive arrangements and executive remuneration documentation

• Assist in drafting and maintaining plan rules, award documentation and governance materials relating to compensation

• Support board and committee processes relating to employment and remuneration matters, including preparation of papers and documentation

• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and maintain internal trackers and guidance materials

• Manage legal know-how, documentation and filing systems to ensure consistency and accessibility across the function

• Support the Head of Legal, Group Employment on strategic projects, cross-regional initiatives and ad hoc matters

Experience required 

What you will need: -

• Relevant legal qualification or equivalent paralegal experience in a law firm or in-house environment

• Strong experience supporting employment law matters, ideally across multiple jurisdictions

• Exposure to reward, compensation or incentive arrangements (desirable)

• Experience drafting and managing legal documentation and templates

• Familiarity with employment lifecycle processes, employee relations matters and investigations

• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• High attention to detail and strong drafting capability

• Ability to work independently while supporting senior stakeholders

• Strong communication skills and ability to operate in a global, matrix organisation

• Commercial awareness and pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset

Languages, Leadership & Personal Attributes

• Fluent English is essential. Proficiency in at least one additional EU language and one APAC or MEA language is highly desirable. 

• Credible, confident and influential senior adviser 

• Highly collaborative and comfortable working with senior People leaders 

• Able to lead through influence in matrix environments 

• Resilient, pragmatic and calm under pressure 

• Culturally aware with international experience 

• Strong alignment with FNZ values and people-first culture 

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.4 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).
Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.