HR Advisor

كلايد آند كو; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in Dubai is seeking an HR Advisor to provide dedicated support to HR Managers and business leaders. The role involves HR support across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring effective HR processes, and maintaining cultural sensitivity. Ideal candidates should possess strong HR knowledge, project management skills, and adaptability to diverse cultural environments. This position offers a dynamic work environment focused on delivering strategic HR initiatives.

Benefits

Health care

Retirement planning

Wellness initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an advisor/generalist role in professional services.
• Ability to support teams across multiple countries and cultures.
• Understanding of employment and labor law with respect to employee relations.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR support across jurisdictions while being sensitive to cultural nuances.
• Ensure effective delivery of HR processes aligned with business goals.
• Maintain relationships as a trusted advisor to stakeholders.

Skills

HR knowledge

Project management

Analytical capability

Strong communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Cultural sensitivity

Education

Graduate or equivalent

CIPD qualification or working towards it

Tools

HRIS

Data analytics tools

Job description

Overview

Job Description | Human Resources Advisor

Department: Human Resources

Location: Dubai

Role: HR Advisor

The Team

The MEA HR team operates across multiple jurisdictions, supporting both fee-earning and business services teams. The team collaborates closely with Centre’s of Excellence (COEs), Global Business Services (GBS), and regional leadership to deliver strategic HR initiatives and operational support. The team is part of a globally connected people team where your ideas and initiative are valued.

The Role

In the capacity of HR Advisor, your role is to provide dedicated support to the HR Manager / Business Partner and their client groups and provide support for the day-to-day operational issues that arise. The Advisor will work closely with other team members including those in COE’s and GBS to ensure effective delivery of people processes and alignment of HR initiatives with the organization’s goals and objectives.

This role demands good HR knowledge, as well as project management abilities, analytical capability and the ability to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders across all levels and across multiple jurisdictions.

The role holder will need to be proficient in the use of HRIS and analytics tools as the role will require the production of insight and MI for the HR Manager / Business Partner and the ability to assist with the coordination of cyclical HR processes.

Depending on experience the role holder may have the opportunity to take direct accountability for some groups (with some oversight from a HR Manager) and take the lead on some regional projects, actively sharing approach and knowledge with other members of the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide HR support and guidance across multiple jurisdictions whilst being sensitive to cultural nuances.
• Provide seamless cross-regional collaboration, especially between UK and MEA HR teams including COE’s and GBS —to align activity and solutions.
• Support business leaders and stakeholders in addressing people-related challenges and implementing solutions that support business goals across regions.
• Ensuring HR policies are effectively communicated and consistently implemented across all departments, regardless of location.
• Support the HR Managers / Business Partners to drive a high-performance culture.
• Lead and support people related projects and change initiatives through involvement and project management support.
• Use data and analytics to inform key people decisions.
• Build relationships with stakeholders acting as a trusted advisor.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of local employment/labor law whilst adapting HR practices to local laws, customs, and business norm.
• Advice and coach managers on performance or conduct concerns through facilitating best practice processes.
• Working with the HR Manager / Partner, senior HR team and the business on various change-management projects within the firm.
• Liaising with Resourcing team on recruitment and supporting capacity management activities.

Analytics and Management Information

Experience in using modern HR technology is important as this role will have responsibility for the monthly production and analysis of various HR reports, including but not limited to:

• Attrition analysis and insight
• Talent management reporting
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Workforce management
• Performance insight

Cyclical Processes

Provide support to HR Managers/ Business Partners for all annual cyclical processes including but not limited to:

• Annual performance management cycle
• Talent Management Salary Review
• Engagement survey
• Promotion cycles

Employee Relations

• Providing advice and mediation for employee relations issues to managers and employees.
• Monitor probation periods. Advice on policies and procedures. Co-ordinate and where appropriate facilitate disciplinary and grievance processes.
• Assist with restructuring, consultation and redundancy procedures.
• Proactively monitor absence levels, both short and long term including occupational health referrals and Group Income Protection (GIP) claims.
• Manage secondments within the client groups.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience working in an advisor/generalist role, ideally gained in a professional services environment with some time spent within the UK.
• Experience supporting teams across multiple countries and cultures. Ability to adapt HR practices to different legal, cultural, and business environments.
• An understanding of current employment and labor law, particularly regarding employee relations issues and best practice case management.
• Proficiency with HRIS and data analytics tools to produce people insight. Evidence of strong project management skills and change management.
• Graduate or equivalent and ideally CIPD qualified or working towards qualification.

Essential Skills

• Ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and multi-task in a fast-paced professional environment.
• Able to use initiative and be flexible in thinking and approach.
• Excellent attention to detail. Influencing skills and commercial acumen
• Proactive and resilient.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of HR best practices, including performance and talent management, employee relations, and compensation practices.
• Champion a culture where people from diverse backgrounds can thrive

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, helping organizations successfully navigate risk and maximize opportunity in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity and enable global prosperity, namely: insurance, aviation, marine, construction, energy, trade and natural resources. Globally integrated, we offer a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves and provides an environment in which everyone can realize their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimizing the impact it has on the environment including through a commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

The firm has 490 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5500 people overall in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognizing that curiosity drives your development

A Note on Privacy

Please take a moment to read our privacy notice. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.

This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

عندما تعمل في كلايد آند كو، فأنت تنضم إلى فريق يضم 500 شريكًا قانونيًا، 2,400 محاميًا، 3,200 أخصائي قانوني، و5,500 شخص في ما يقرب من 70 من مكاتبها ومكاتبَ تابعةٍ لها حول العالم.

قيمنا هي المبادئ التي توجّه القرارات التي نتخذها، وتوحدنا في جهودنا، وتعزز مجهوداتنا، سواء لنا أو لعملائنا وشركائنا.

نحن ملتزمون بالعمل من منطلق المسؤولية وذلك من خلال التقدم نحو قوى عمل متنوعة وشاملة الذين يعكسان المجتمعات والعملاء الذين يخدموننا ونخدمهم. كلايد آند كو يلتزم بتوفير بيئة تمكن للجميع بتحقيق إمكاناتهم فيها وباستخدام مهاراتهم القانونية والمهنية لدعم مجتمعاتهم وبيئاتهم. ونفعل ذلك من خلال العمل الخيري والتطوعي ومن خلال الشركات الخيرية التي نتعاقد معها، ومن خلال تقليل تأثير التلوث البيئي، بما في ذلك التزامنا بمعيار SBTi Net-Zero ووضع أهداف طموحة للحد من انبعاثات التلوث في البيئة.

كلايد آند كو يقدم مجموعة من الفوائد والدعم المصممة خصيصا لمنسوبيه، بما في ذلك الرعاية الصحية، وتخطيط التقاعد، ومبادرات تدعم الرفاهية.

نحن نفخر بأن نكون منشأة تعمل لطرح فرص متكافئة للجميع ونشجع قيمنا الأساسية على دعم العدالة، والاحتفال بتنوع واختلافات أفرادنا. ولذلك فإننا نمنع جميع أشكال التمييز في مكان العمل لإعطاء فرص عادلة للجميع بالتفوق والازدهار. لذا، نحن نرحب ونشجع جميع طلبات التقديم الوظيفي من الأفراد المؤهلين القديرين، بغض النظر عن اختلاف هوياتهم.

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