HR Generalist - Onboarding, Payroll & People Support

Exchange House Services Ltd - London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer in London seeks an HR Generalist to provide essential HR support across the firm via the AskHR helpdesk. You will manage onboarding, employee lifecycle activities, payroll coordination and ER cases, ensuring accurate records and timely processes.

Working pattern is full-time with a fixed-term contract. You will collaborate with HR Business Partners and Centre of Excellence teams to deliver a seamless employee experience and compliant HR operations.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide general HR support to all business areas via the 'AskHR' helpdesk.
• Serve as first point of contact for day-to-day HR queries.
• Classify queries and route to HR Business Partners as needed.
• Support end-to-end employee lifecycle with administrative assistance.
• Maintain personnel records up to date on HR.Net.
• Coordinate weekly new joiner induction and onboarding with IT, Recruitment and Office Ops.
• Manage onboarding with pre-employment checks by liaising with the external provider.
• Handle parental leave processes for all employees end-to-end.
• Assist with ER issues like disciplinaries and redundancies with notes.
• Coordinate monthly payroll submissions and approvals before cut-off.
• Monitor sickness absence and escalate as appropriate.
• Conduct ad-hoc New Joiner Chats and Exit Interviews.
• Run Joiners/Movers/Leavers reports and upload to intranet.
• Coordinate bi-annual trainee induction with multiple teams to ensure smooth experience.
• Support annual Performance, Salary and Bonus reviews with data checking.

Skills

Proactive initiative

Excellent organisation

Attention to detail

Client service experience

Previous HR experience

Job description

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer in London seeks an HR Generalist to provide essential HR support across the firm via the AskHR helpdesk. You will manage onboarding, employee lifecycle activities, payroll coordination and ER cases, ensuring accurate records and timely processes.

Working pattern is full-time with a fixed-term contract. You will collaborate with HR Business Partners and Centre of Excellence teams to deliver a seamless employee experience and compliant HR operations.