Undergraduate - Legal & Compliance

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Undergraduate - Legal & Compliance

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role: 

The Honda Legal Team collaborates with the business to deliver high value, timely, cost efficient and customer centric advice and coaching in relation to legal affairs, compliance, corporate governance and company secretarial matters across the European Region. 

The appointed individual will become a fully integrated member of the Honda Legal Team and will support on a range of legal reporting, compliance, company secretarial and administrative matters. 

Depending on the work carried out, the appointed individual may be supervised directly by the General Manager for the Legal & Risk Division, the Head of Legal, Senior Legal Counsel, or other members of the Honda Legal Team.

This is a role that provides an excellent opportunity for the appointed individual to develop their skills and to contribute as part of a dynamic and ambitious in-house legal team.

Main Responsibilities: 

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the items set out below. 

• Maintain a log of requests for legal support received by the Legal Team. Provide a first response (acknowledgement) to all legal work requests. Engage with the business to ensure that all requests for legal support are comprehensive and understandable.  
• Support the Legal and Compliance Assistant with company secretarial work, including requesting document notarisation and legalisation etc. 
• Support the Legal and Compliance Assistant with the coordination of legal reporting requests sent to Honda Motor Europe Limited’s branches and subsidiaries within the Europe, Africa and Middle East region.
• Become a super-user for the Honda Contract Lifecycle Management system (a contract database) and provide user support to business colleagues, as required.  
• Contribute to ad hoc legal, compliance and corporate governance projects.
• Carry out legal research and support Legal Team members in responding to requests for legal advice. This may include drafting, or advising on, simple contracts.  
• Manage the accounting administration for the Legal Team, including raising Purchase Orders, receiving invoices for approval and processing approved invoices for payment. 
• Provide administrative support to prepare for, and to ensure the smooth running of, the Annual Compliance Conference. 
• Provide general administrative support, including filing contracts, arranging meetings, booking rooms, securing signatures, receiving and posting documents, updating the Legal SharePoint site, supporting new joiners to obtain access to relevant IT systems, ordering stationery etc.

Qualifications, skills and experience: Required/Desirable

Required

• A legal or business undergraduate looking for a placement as part of their studies. 
• A highly organised individual with strict attention to detail and the ability to deliver to deadlines, whilst maintaining quality standards. 
• The ability to maintain the highest standards of confidentiality in all aspects of their work. 
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills. 
• Effective written and verbal communication in English. 
• Strong team player with an enthusiastic “can-do” attitude. 
• Ability to remain flexible and able to adapt to changing demands in the role. 
• Proficient user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. 

Desirable 

• Undertaken previous administration work and/or work experience in a legal environment.

About Honda

Honda aims to become the “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative. In order to continue to be a company society wants to exist, Honda strives to help people create a better society through our technologies, ideas and designs. 

Honda is looking for talented Associates to innovate and shape the future of our society. By choosing Honda, you’re choosing a path to personal and professional success. 

The Honda Philosophy and our Fundamental Beliefs drive our desire to “help people and society” and “expand life’s potential”. The underlying basis of such efforts is the concept of “Respect for the Individual,” which is at the centre of our philosophy. We always put “people” in the centre of our thinking, and we believe in the potential of people.

This philosophy is not only shared by all Associates, but also forms the basis for all company activities and sets the standard for the conduct and decision-making of all Associates throughout the Honda Group. 

With over 70 years of heritage, Honda has always been focused on bringing joy to its customers and society. We are always focused on delivering products that answer the real needs of customers. 

Over 76 years, Honda’s passionate associates have delivered innovation and excellence that has made it the world’s largest maker of internal combustion engines. But the challenge of decarbonisation is now the most pressing concern and Honda has committed to act. 

Honda has set an ambitious target and began initiatives to realize carbon neutrality throughout its operations by 2050. Here in Europe, our Automobile range is 100% electrified and this year saw the addition of our second electric motorcycle; the CUV e: scooter to our line-up. At the same time, we will strive to realize a “zero environmental footprint” through our initiatives in manufacturing, such as the utilisation of renewable energy and recycling of resources.

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