HR Assistant (5637)

Irwin Mitchell; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A national law firm in Sheffield is seeking an HR Assistant to provide support within their People Services team. This role includes generating paperwork, onboarding new starters, and answering HR queries. Ideal candidates will have HR admin experience and strong interpersonal skills. The firm promotes a friendly and inclusive environment with a focus on integrity, efficiency, and caring.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Generous pension schemes

Volunteering days

Health membership

Hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Ability to work with discretion and tact.
• Willingness to share best practices.
• Efficiency and accuracy in work.

Responsibilities

• Generate and process offer paperwork.
• Check HR compliance and coordinate checks.
• Onboard new starters and coordinate internal moves.

Skills

Professional and approachable manner

Great team player

Ability to work quickly

Confidence to help colleagues

Previous HR admin experience

Knowledge of pre-employment screening

Job description

Overview

As a HR Assistant, you'll join our friendly People Services team. The team handles a wide variety of HR requests and queries, with day-to-day tasks split equally to provide exposure from the beginning. This role offers insight into how HR operates in a large professional services environment and supports an excellent service to the business. You'll gain HR experience dealing with a variety of administrative tasks daily and have monthly one-to-ones with your Team Leader.

Responsibilities

• Generating and processing offer paperwork
• Checking HR compliance, right to work documents and coordinating checks on new joiners
• Onboarding of new starters, as well as helping to coordinate internal moves and leavers
• Handling a variety of ad-hoc queries from the business including absences, holiday requests, family leave and questions about using the HR system
• Working closely with other areas of HR and payroll to resolve colleagues' queries as quickly and as seamlessly as possible

Qualifications

• A professional and approachable manner, and an ability to work with discretion and tact
• A great team player, with a willingness to get involved and share best practice
• An ability to work quickly, efficiently and accurately
• The confidence to help our colleagues at all levels across the whole business including working well with the wider HR team
• Previous HR admin experience
• Knowledge of pre-employment screening checks and right to work
• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity

About the employer

We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities. We’re proud of our values and we’re looking for people who share them: pioneering, approachable and caring, tenacious, efficient, and with integrity.

Benefits

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays
• You can 'buy' up to 35 hours of extra holiday
• Generous and flexible pension schemes
• Volunteering days - two days per year (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, including Aviva Digital GP services
• Flexible by Choice programme with hybrid working options where applicable
• We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024