Senior Associate
2 weeks ago
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- Job Title
- Senior Associate - Employment, Riyadh
- Job Location
- Riyadh
- Job Type
- Lawyers/Attorneys
- Expertise
- Employer & Pensions
- Description
**The role**
**Key responsibilities**
- Advising clients on compliance with local laws and regulations. Instructing and liaising with correspondent law firms across the region;
- Acting for regional conglomerates, multination clients and Government owned entities, eg PiF subsidiaries on a range of issues, including start up employment infrastructure, corporate governance and senior executive incentive schemes;
- Advising clients on large scale restructuring exercises including employee communications and drafting documents;
- Advising clients on workforce nationalisation and structuring issues;
- Advising on workforce conduct issues and other internal issues including carrying out fact finding and internal investigations on behalf of clients including implementing recommendations;
- Providing advice and support to clients on a full range of employment issues, including recruitment and sponsorship procedures, remuneration and benefits packages, grievance and disciplinary procedures and issues arising on the termination of employment
- Supporting the corporate department with employment issues arising out of transactions, such as undertaking employment due diligence, drafting warranties and indemnities in agreements and the transfer of employees;
- Drafting and amending employment contracts, employee handbooks, policies and procedures and other employment related documentation;
- Advising clients in the healthcare, education, energy, insurance, construction and aviation sectors on employment specific issues arising in these sectors;
- Defending clients on large scale and complex employment disputes in the local courts and in the financial centres
- Advising clients on settlement of disputes and drafting settlement agreements.
- Advising clients on immigration matters.
The ideal applicant will:
- Have worked extensively on employment-related matters. Regional experience would be an advantage;
- Be a Saudi national (preferred) or bilingual (Arabic & English)
- Have experience of working at a large-scale international or regional top tier law firm;
- Demonstrates an ability to interact confidently with clients and develop business pro-actively;
- Have attained a degree certificate(s) from a reputed institution, achieving a minimum grade of 2:1 or equivalent;
- Have a mature and flexible personality and is able to work well within a team;
- Be self-motivated and possesses a very pro-active attitude towards completing jobs and developing business; and
- Has a genuine commitment to building a career with Clyde & Co in the Middle East.
**Role Competency Requirements**
**Technical Excellence**
- Managing legal processes: the ability to ensure all legal processes are followed efficiently and effectively
**People and Team**
- Guiding individual performance and development: develops the skills of self and others
- Teamwork and collaboration: working cooperatively and effectively with others
- Leadership: creating high performing teams
**Client Relationships and Business Development**
- Building business relationships: establishing, maintaining and using relationships to create and develop business opportunities
- Commercial thinking: understanding the commercial drivers
- Cross-selling and business development
**Finance and Practice Management**
- Finance management and understanding of the business
- Project management: ensuring projects are delivered
- Knowledge sharing
**Personal Effectiveness**
- Communication
- Clarity of thinking
- Personal contribution
**Team Description**
Our employment team has been advising clients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on employment matters for over a decade. Our 3 dedicated employment partners cumulatively boast over 40 years' of local law experience and manage the largest employment team of any international firm in the Middle East.
We strategically guide and advise our clients on the full spectrum of employment issues both contentious and non-contentious throughout their business life cycle, from onboarding to restructuring and everything in between. Complex advice has included linking restructures of a business with Saudisation considerations, internal employment infrastructure (delegation of authority, services agreements, contracts, and internal work regulations), sensitive employee relations matters involving workplace investigations, managed employee exits and employment terminations. Our contentious work has seen us defend clients (in a range of sectors) against a variety of large scale and complex claims across the Kingdom at both the Settlement Body for the resolution of disputes and the Labour Courts.
Our team advises on compliance with Saudization regulations and resource management in light of these requirements (part time working, ho
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