Labor and Employment Counsel Specialist with French

Location: Bratislava

WHO WE ARE

Accenture is a leading global provider of a broad range of professional services in strategy and consulting, interactive marketing, information technology and business operations services, with digital capabilities in all of these areas. With more than 800,000 employees worldwide, we serve clients in more than 120 countries. We have been operating in Slovakia since 1992 and employ more than 2,100 people in Bratislava and Košice.

Accenture globally has ranked 4th on the Great Place to Work® World’s Best Workplaces™.

Join us as a Labor and Employment Counsel Specialist! Accenture Legal encompasses ~3000 lawyers, contract management and other professionals in 47 countries, making us amongst the biggest in-house units of our kind globally. Join our team to develop solutions and implement strategic approaches that enable us to increase our shareholder value, ensure compliance and protect our assets and reputation. Our tight-knit group of global legal professionals work together to help our company and clients achieve high performance.

The Employment Law Team sits within the Compliance, Offerings, Regulatory & Ethics (CORE) function within Legal, and offers the full range of Employment Law services from advisory and litigation support on HR and Employee Relations issues to implementing compliance projects and supporting transactional matters.

Grow your expertise while working on challenging, varied projects. You’ll learn through hands-on experience and dedicated training, build highly valued legal and business skills, and have opportunities to make a bigger impact as your career develops.

YOUR MISSION

• Focus on France.
• Provide strategic and pragmatic Employment Law advice on a wide range of advisory matters to key internal stakeholders.
• Oversee and provide support for litigation and pre-litigation matters, in conjunction with Employee Relations team and external counsel.
• Advise on industrial relations and collective bargaining issues, particularly collective consultation requirements.
• Contribute to development of internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on Employment Law and business issues for the region.
• Manage and oversee external counsel relationships with law firms as appropriate, including budget management.
• Stay abreast of legal developments impacting on Accenture, its clients, and industries and incorporate it into company practices.
• Support, promote, and implement initiatives as part of Legal team.
• Counsel, guide, train and support junior colleagues as appropriate.
• Educate Leadership and key stakeholders with regard to Legal and risk management issues in the region.
• Make recommendations and escalate to your lead on material Employment Law related issues.
• WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Flexibility

• Flexible working arrangements (time & place of work)

Recognition

• Guaranteed paid overtime or overtime vacation
• Flexible Benefit System - budget to be spent on services of your choice
• Competitive bonus structure
• Refer-a-Friend – get a bonus in the employee referral program
• Loyalty rewards

Future

• Wide range of trainings and expert lectures
• Regular performance review and career growth possibilities
• Ongoing career guidance and mentoring (Global Mentoring Program, Lean In)
• Employee share purchase plan

Family & Health

• 3 extra days off
• Sick leave salary compensation (up to 100%)
• Home-office equipment
• Family oriented benefits (Wedding, Parental and Baby days-off and bonuses)
• Employee assistance services (professional psychological, financial and legal help)
• Multisport card
• Contribution to special vision correction appliances
• Life and disability group insurance
• Sport vouchers for children’s sport activities and children camps

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to role, level, location, effort, responsibility, skillset, and level of experience. The range of base pay for this role is 2 070 € - 3 340 €. We offer a French language bonus on top of your base salary.

WHO YOU ARE

• Law degree
• Qualified lawyer, ideally with exposure to French law through education or professional experience.
• 4–5+ years of post-qualification experience, ideally in Employment Law, either in private practice or in-house. Compliance professionals interested in developing their Employment Law expertise may also be considered.
• Fluent English (C1+) and French (C1+), both written and spoken.
• Curious and committed to continuous learning.
• Strategic thinker who can develop practical, innovative solutions aligned with business needs.
• Collaborative team player, comfortable working across different roles and seniority levels.
• Value diverse perspectives and inclusive ways of working.
• Strong time management, prioritization and project management skills.
• Able to build trusted relationships and deliver on commitments.
• Exposure to cross-border or European projects is an advantage.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.

We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.

We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us atwww.accenture.com

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