Legal and Compliance Assistant (Placement Year 2025-26)

Legal & Compliance Assistant 

Undergraduate Placement Year (July 2025-26)

Welcome to Kia UK!

About Us

Kia UK is a leading automotive brand offering one of the industry’s largest range of models across multiple vehicle segments, contributing to it being the fifth most popular UK car brand in 2023. With more than 190 Kia dealerships across the country, Kia is now widely known for its advanced electrified products offering the technology of tomorrow, today. Spearheading this charge are award-winning products including the fully electric EV6 – Kia’s first dedicated electric vehicle – and the new pioneering EV9.

Kia UK has consistently grown for over 30 years, supported by bold design, quality products and ever-evolving customer service. By 2027, the brand aims to offer no less than nine fully electric vehicles in the UK, a positive step towards becoming a leading global sustainable mobility solutions provider.

People are central to Kia UK and every day is an opportunity to learn something new and to grow personally and professionally. This was recognised with Kia UK named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ 2024 by Great Place To Work®, and also ranked in the 2024 Best Workplaces™ for Women and Wellbeing. Kia employees reported positively on areas such as working atmosphere, trust in management, corporate strategy, pride in working for the company, benefits, facilities and much more!  

The Team

Legal and Compliance is a newly established department within Kia UK – this is an excellent opportunity for you to support its integration into the wider company.  As a business partner, you’ll work with all commercial and operational departments within Kia UK, together with our European HQ and many dealers, suppliers and customers.  We support KUK in the compliance of regulatory requirements and internal policies, and provide a legal framework and advice to KUK colleagues working on business projects.

The Role

•  Set up, organise and maintain contract management system

• Assist with GDPR data subject rights

• Support the review, introduction and update of company policies and legal agreement templates

• Assist colleagues in wider business with project work

• Support compliance audits

About You

• Collaborative

• Logical and well-focused

• Disciplined and resilient

• Good organisational skills

• Open to learning and adapting

We recognise that there may be a number of ways to meet our requirements. We are looking for the best candidate for the job and encourage you to apply even if your experience or qualifications don’t exactly match what we’ve outlined in the role description. If you think you could be a good fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you!  

The Benefits

        🍳 Onsite Chef -> free lunch every day

         🦷 Private Dental Care (Denplan, £0 excess)

         🩺 Private Medical Care (Vitality) + Annual Health Check

         🚗 Employee Car Scheme (car lease + insurance all included from £85/month)

         🌊 Flexible working hours (core hours between 10:00am-3:00pm)

         🏡 Hybrid working (2 days a week remote working)

         🤸‍ Free weekly yoga, football, and badminton clubs

         🎱 Pool tables, dart board, and massage chairs onsite

         😮 Pension + salary sacrifice

         🌍 Work from anywhere for one week a year

         🏖 24 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

         ❤ Opportunity to get involved & give back via our charity partners

         🥳 Birthday Vouchers

         🎉 Celebrations such as our Spring Ball, Christmas events, Social Club and much more!

Location/Travel

The Kia UK Head Office is based in Walton-on-Thames, just a 5 minute walk from the station. We also have plenty of on-site parking for drivers, including EV charging ports.

There is step-free access throughout the building, but please let us know if you require any additional accessibility support and we will cater to your needs as best we can.

Interview Process

Step 1: CV review

Step 2: Video Interview

Step 3: Assessment Centre at our Head Office in Walton-On-Thames

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We understand that every candidate is unique, and we welcome the opportunity to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that all individuals can fully participate in our interview process. If you require any adjustments or support to facilitate your interview, please do not hesitate to reach out to (lward@kia.co.uk). We are happy to discuss your needs and make arrangements that support your participation to best showcase your skills and qualifications.

At Kia, we are committed to employing the best-qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and thereby not discriminating against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability.