Pensions Lawyer

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Job Summary

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 talk to 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
Zurich Group

Job Qualifications

As a Pensions Lawyer your skills and qualifications will include:

Relevant degree - Legal/Business
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

Technical Competencies

Practical understanding of financial services and pensions trusts is an advantage
Strong drafting skills
Strong ability to research legislation

Non Technical Competencies

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 ability and 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.

If you value an exciting and varied working environment and meet the above requirements, then our recruiter is looking forward to receiving your application by clicking on the button “Apply online”.

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 82 million 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.