HR Assistant

Osborne Clarke; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An international legal practice is seeking an HR Assistant in Bristol to provide high-quality HR support. The role includes processing employee lifecycle events, managing family leave, and coordinating partner documentation. Candidates should have strong communication and organizational skills. This permanent position offers competitive salary and benefits, including some home working.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable work experience in an assistant or administrator role.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality HR support across the UK offices.
• Process employee lifecycle events accurately.
• Monitor and escalate HR queries effectively.

Skills

Teamwork

HR processes understanding

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Role profile

Our HR team has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the team as an HR Assistant. As an HR Assistant your main responsibility will be to provide high quality HR support to the team, and all employees and Partners across the UK offices.

This is a permanent position, based out of our Bristol office with some home working too.

About us

Our HR team is highly respected for the central and strategic role it plays in making Osborne Clarke a great place to work. The team is made up of 40+ people, covering human resources, recruitment and people development across all three UK offices. We are a friendly and supportive team, working closely together to help ensure Osborne Clarke's continued growth and success.

Key Responsibilities

This is a varied and fast-paced role which will see the successful candidate cover a range of tasks and include duties such as:

• Being responsible for the accurate processing of employee lifecycle events in the HR System, e.g. job changes, family leave, leavers
• Providing great client service to our employees and Partners, by creating and sending documentation confirming terms and conditions changes in a timely manner
• Co-ordinating Partner documentation including joiners, leavers, promotions, family leave and ensuring records are accurate
• Monitoring, actioning and escalating a high volume of queries received by the team e.g. on policy, process or approach
• Managing family leave processes, including meeting with the individual, producing confirmation letters with pay and holiday information, co-ordinating family leave coaching
• Conducting exit interviews
• Acting as note taker for formal employee relations meetings
• Providing administrative support for promotion processes and other cyclical activities
• Any other duties that may be required to ensure the efficient operation of the HR service

Who we're looking for

The successful candidate will need to have demonstrable work experience in an assistant or administrator role. More specifically you will:

• Work well as part of a team
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn, or have a basic understanding of, HR processes and systems
• Understand and act upon appropriate instructions, clarifying incomplete/unclear instructions before acting
• Have excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Be able to work with sensitive and confidential information
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels
• Have a professional and flexible approach to work
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to support multiple people and areas of work
• Experience with various software packages across Microsoft Office, in particular Word and Excel

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

*Services in India are provided by a relationship firm