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Must be newly qualified from a UK university with no more than 3 years work experience. We want to train and develop you ! Please refer to the job advert for further information.

Legal & HR Executive (International) | Colombo

Seeking a dynamic and experienced candidate to join our Team in Colombo as a Legal & HR Executive. We are a British Holding Company with various specialist healthcare ventures in the UK.

This is a dual role:

To assist we offer: Latest Apple Mac, Setup a home office for you, Mobile with UK local number, full access to AI (artificial intelligence) software for research, precedence, legal drafting, analysing, etc, Ms-Office, access to Peninsular HR Consultancy and Lawyers (https://www.peninsulagrouplimited.com/), access to various Solicitors and Mid-Tier Chartered Accountants & Corporate Finance Companies we use, access to UK Lawyers. Last but not least, AI for Outlook emails !

Part A

• Build Out our HR Department in Colombo (hire, train and manage a team of 3 HR professionals), we are hiring an additional 40 members of staff over the next 6 months in the UK to work in the UK
• Steer our outsourced marketing and web developers to create impact web sites and highly visual FB, LinkedIn, Tick-Tok campaigns.
• Review all our internal HR documentation, process map them (resource will be allocated), create our internal functional HR hiring and management system.
• Design, build and implement a quantitative employee engagement culture supporting our existing 100+ overseas employees
• Contract negotiations with Overseas Employees (Sri Lankan, Indian, Eastern European) who we sponsor to work in the UK (Yes, we have our own allocation of 5 year UK Work Permits)
• Responsibility of: Onboarding, Retention, Employment Contract Negotiations, Policies, Background Check, etc

Part B (working with our UK & European Subject Matter Experts)

• Review company legal matters (day to day matters)
• Review Share Sale Agreements
• Sweat Equity Transactions
• International Tax
• Compliance with UK regulations and Health & Safety
• Corporate matters (acquisition and disposal of assets)
• Financial related legal matters
• Provide inhouse legal advice
• Liaise with external legal counsel (UK, Sri Lanka, India and European)

Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• LLB from a UK University, Attorney-at-law
• 1 – 2 years’ experience in same or similar role
• Possession exceptional communication skills - Good English is a Must
• Confidentiality
• Good Team Work
• Multi-Task

Personal Attributes

• Must be accountable with a strong work ethic, a sense of urgency and ownership, and be able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Data driven, highly organized, and detail oriented
• Able to deliver as efficiently as possible without compromising quality or the customer experience
• First class communicator with an ability to engage internal and customer stakeholders up to a senior level with confidence
• Efficient in approach, developing optimized and simple working methods and processes with a keen eye for detail
• Continually improving, caring about quality, and delivering customer value