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About the Role
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm committed to helping clients achieve their goals through exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence. We are an integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm with an extensive global footprint, known for tackling complexity and navigating change in demanding litigation, regulatory work, and complex transactions, particularly in energy, infrastructure, and resources.
Responsibilities
- Classify and assign HR queries and requests received via the 'AskHR' helpdesk.
- Provide administrative assistance to HR Business Partners and the wider HR team to support the employee lifecycle.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date personnel records on HR.Net.
- Coordinate weekly new joiner inductions, liaising with Recruitment, Office Operations, and IT Training.
- Manage the on-boarding process for new joiners, including pre-employment checks.
- Manage end-to-end Parental Leave processes.
- Assist with Employee Relations issues by taking accurate meeting notes for disciplinaries and redundancies.
- Coordinate monthly payroll submissions, ensuring data accuracy and approvals.
- Monitor sickness absence and escalate issues to HR Business Partners as needed.
- Conduct new joiner chats and exit interviews, providing feedback.
- Generate and upload weekly Joiners, Movers, and Leavers reports to the Firm's Intranet.
- Coordinate bi-annual General Trainee Inductions, including speaker arrangements and training materials.
- Support the Annual Performance, Salary, and Bonus Review process through data checking and letter production.
- Assist with the annual renewal of SRA Practicing Certificates for eligible legal professionals globally.
Requirements
- Proactive, confident, and uses own initiative.
- Excellent organisation skills.
- Attention to detail is key.
- Proven client service experience is essential.
- Previous HR experience is desirable.
Skills
- HR administration
- Employee lifecycle support
- Personnel record maintenance
- On-boarding
- Parental leave management
- Employee relations
- Payroll coordination
- Sickness absence monitoring
- New joiner chats
- Exit interviews
- Reporting
- Performance review support
- SRA Practicing Certificate renewals
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent Contract
About the Company
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm.
- Our ambition is to help clients achieve their goals.
- Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core.
- We invest in and care about our client relationships.
- We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.
- We are a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm.
- Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world’s largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs.
- We excel at tackling complexity and navigating change.
- We work alongside clients on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions.
- We are recognised as leading in energy, infrastructure and resources.
- We are focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world.
- We support the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives.
- We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance.
- This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.