Pensions Lawyer

Zurich 56 Company Ltd; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zurich Insurance Company in Ireland seeks an experienced Pensions Lawyer to provide professional and independent legal advice to our business, focusing on Zurich Ireland Master Trust DAC and Zurich Trustee Service Ltd. The role can be part-time or full-time, with the interview discussion exploring flexible arrangements.

Primary duties include advising on pensions and trust law, regulatory matters, and general insurance/regulatory legal work.

Qualifications

• Qualified Lawyer with 4–6 years post-qualification experience in commercial or financial services.
• Experience in pensions financial services practice/insurance from an Irish legal and regulatory perspective.
• Strong ability to research legislation.
• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills; adaptable to audience.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on pensions and trust law matters.
• Provide legal advice on pensions regulatory matters.
• Provide general legal and regulatory advice on insurance and investment matters.
• Draft, negotiate, review, and advise on pensions, trust and commercial documentation.
• Provide Company Secretarial support to Zurich’s trustee companies.
• Ensure advice reflects applicable laws, regulations and practice.
• Mitigate legal risk and assist with regulatory compliance.

Skills

Pensions law

Regulatory compliance

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Research legislation

Communication

Team player

Education

Qualified Lawyer – 4–6 PQE

Job description

Zurich Insurance Company is seeking an experienced Pensions Lawyer. This role will provide professional and independent legal advice to Zurich’s business in Ireland, focusing mainly on Zurich’s trustee companies – Zurich Ireland Master Trust DAC and Zurich Trustee Service Ltd.

This role may be available part-time or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talkto us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

Job Accountabilities - Key Accountabilities

As a Lawyer your main responsibilities will include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

• Provide legal advice on pensions and trust law matters
• Provide legal advice on pensions regulatory matters.
• Provide general legal and regulatory advice on insurance and investment matters.
• Draft, negotiate, review, and advise on a variety of pensions, trust and commercial documentation
• Providing Company Secretarial support to Zurich’s trustee companies
• Ensure that advice accurately reflects applicable laws, regulations and practice.
• Mitigate legal risk and assist with commercial risk mitigation and regulatory compliance.

Relationships:

Internal:

• Extended Legal Team in Ireland
• The Directors of Zurich’s trustee companies
• Relevant business contacts and senior management
• “Service provider” relationship with business contacts that call on advice

External:

• External lawyers

Job Qualifications

As a Pensions Lawyer your skills and qualifications will include:

• Qualified Lawyer – Ideal candidate will have 4-6 years post qualification experience in commercial or financial services
• Experience of pensions financial services practice/insurance from an Irish legal and regulatory perspective
• Practical understanding of financial services and pensions trusts is an advantage
• Strong ability to research legislation
• Communication, influencing and negotiation skills with ability to adapt style to suit audience.
• Ability to work within a team environment
• Ability to take initiative in fast moving environment
• Customer centric
• Strong problem solving abilityand organisational skills.

Additional Information

Primary work location is Blackrock based but occasional travel may be required to other Zurich locations.

This is a hybrid position which requires 2-3 days in the office per week.

Who we are

Zurich is one of Ireland's leading insurance companies providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. The company employs over 1,000 people across its locations in Dublin and Wexford.

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich)is a leading global multi-line insurer founded more than 150 years ago, which has grown into a business serving more than 82million customers in more than 200 countries and territories, while delivering industry-leading total shareholder returns.

Reflecting its purpose to ‘create a brighter future together,’ Zurich offers protection services that go beyond traditional insurance, to support its customers in building resilience. Since 2020, the Zurich Forest project supports reforestation and biodiversity restoration in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

The Group has more than65,000 employees and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN) is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information is available at www.zurich.com .