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As a Senior Counsel Employment, you will be part of FactSet's global legal team based in Sofia, Bulgaria, where you will play a key role in providing expert employment law counsel across multiple jurisdictions. You will work closely with HR, senior management, and internal stakeholders to support FactSet's global workforce on a wide range of employment matters. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced employment lawyer who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is excited to contribute to meaningful work that directly impacts the business.
What You'll Do:
- Provide independent counsel on the full range of employment-law matters - employment contracts and recruiting, employee benefits, discrimination and harassment, and wage, hours, and working conditions - quickly assessing issues and giving practical, actionable advice on an ad hoc basis.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for EMEA employment matters, identifying, assessing, and mitigating legal risk across the region and advising business partners on risk-mitigation strategies to reduce the company's exposure.
- Partner with Human Resources to recommend, implement, and continuously improve employment-related policies and procedures, embedding best practices for the HR team and employees.
- Monitor legal, regulatory, and legislative developments affecting employment across EMEA, and work with business stakeholders to translate changes into updated procedures and policies.
- Support HR in conducting internal investigations as needed, providing legal guidance to ensure they are thorough, fair, and defensible.
What We're Looking For:
Required Skills
- Education: Law degree from a reputable and accredited institution
- Qualified lawyer with 10 years of employment-law experience, ideally spanning multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
- Deep, practical knowledge of employment law across employment contracts, benefits, discrimination and harassment, discipline and grievances, and leave and absence matters.
- Proven ability to assess and mitigate legal risk independently and advise senior stakeholders.
- Strong HR-partnership skills and a track record of shaping employment policy.
- Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English and the local language of the jurisdiction.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while prioritizing responsibilities and meeting deadlines.
Desired Skills
- Good judgment, a high degree of professional integrity, and the ability to maintain confidential and highly sensitive information.
- Ability to interact confidently with colleagues and adversaries, and to translate difficult legal principles into practical business solutions.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and drafting skills, with the ability to gain respect and influence others.
- Ability to operate autonomously across a multi-jurisdiction region.
- Must have an energetic, decisive, hard-working, detail-oriented, hands-on personality with strong
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
