Incentives Associate Junior

Clifford Chance; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in London is searching for an enthusiastic Incentives lawyer to join their dynamic Incentives team. The ideal candidate will be a newly qualified lawyer or a junior associate with relevant experience. Responsibilities include designing and implementing incentives plans, providing advisory support, and managing legal and tax issues. The position offers opportunities for professional development in a hybrid working environment, and the firm values strong teamwork and client relationships.

Benefits

Broad range of benefits

Support for hybrid working

Continuous training and development

Qualifications

• Must have done a seat in Incentives or relevant post-qualification experience.
• Strong academic history and legal skills are necessary.
• Must show enthusiasm and a desire to develop the team.

Responsibilities

• Design, draft, and implement incentive plans.
• Manage legal, regulatory, and tax advice on global incentive plans.
• Provide advice on remuneration governance and reporting.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Commerciality

Client relationship building

Team collaboration

Responsiveness

Education

Demonstrated seat in Incentives during training contract or relevant post qualification experience

Strong academic history

Job description

The role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and commercial Incentives lawyer to join our London Incentives team. We are interested in hearing from you if you are a NQ keen to qualify into Incentives or a Junior Associate with post-qualification experience within a recognised Incentives practice in a law firm accountancy firm consultancy firm or in-house.

We are far more than a traditional share plans team and cover a full range of remuneration and incentives work looking at legal regulatory tax and governance issues as well as reputational risk.

We are a market leading team ranked Tier 1 in legal directories both in the UK and globally. We have a strong and globally diverse client base including global quoted companies large private companies and private equity houses and their investee companies. We also have a healthy split of advisory and transactional work (this is not a corporate support team; we focus on standalone advisory projects around 50% and supporting on strategic transactions around 50%).

Who you will work with

The team is close knit and everyone works together. We make sure every member of the team gets a good mix of work type and clients.

What you will be responsible for

The types of work you would be involved with would include :

• design drafting and implementation of all types of discretionary and all-employee incentives plans;
• managing legal regulatory and tax advice on global incentive plans and remuneration arrangements;
• advice on remuneration governance design reporting remuneration committee and shareholder issues (e.g. say on pay and director remuneration reports / policies);
• advice on remuneration regulation (e.g. financial service sector remuneration);
• remuneration advice on board and senior executive hires and terminations;
• advice on corporate governance regulatory and tax issues affecting incentives and remuneration;
• employment tax advice; and
• the remuneration aspects of public and private M&A IPOs capital raisings and other corporate transactions.

Qualifications : Your experience

You will be a NQ keen to qualify into Incentives who has done a seat in Incentives during your training contract or relevant post qualification experience in Incentives.

Strong academic history and legal skills are important. Equally as key is enthusiasm commerciality and a real desire to help develop our team further.

We want to recruit lawyers who not only have great technical skills but who :

• can demonstrate a keen interest and enthusiasm to learn about our clients businesses;
• can work in teams sharing knowledge and contributing to overall success;
• are empathetic responsive and reliable;
• are commercial and innovative in the solutions they deliver to clients;
• are good at fostering relationships with clients.

How we will support you

From your first day with us you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and develop your skills and knowledge. From formal training informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.

Hybrid Working

This role follows our balanced hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow you will be supported to work in a hybrid way with the expectation of working from the office for a minimum of 50% of your time.

What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment

When you join Clifford Chance you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial wellbeing lifestyle and family friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in the UK please visit our What We Offerpage on our career site.

Equal Opportunities

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender gender identity and expression marital or civil partnership status race colour national or ethnic origin social or economic background disability religious belief sexual orientation or age. This applies to recruitment and selection terms and conditions of employment including pay promotion training transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here

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