People Operations Partner

Herbert Smith Freehills; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Herbert Smith Freehills Singapore is seeking a motivated People Advisor to manage the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, payroll, and compliance, while collaborating with Recruitment, Reward, L&D, and payroll teams. The role supports Prolegis initiatives and may involve secondments to HSFK projects.

You will partner with the General Counsel and Risk teams to ensure legal and regulatory compliance and contribute to Early Careers and diversity initiatives in a fast-paced legal setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years HR experience ideally in a legal or professional services firm.
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confident in interacting with people at all levels.
• Experience in stakeholder management – dealing with multiple stakeholders.
• Able to work collaboratively in a team and independently when needed.
• Effective planning, scheduling, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Ability to understand new concepts quickly and put learning into action.
• High level of customer focus and ‘can do’ attitude.
• Diplomacy, discretion and confidentiality.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and work cohesively within a high performing team.
• Flexible approach to resourcing and allocation of work.
• Develop understanding of clients’ needs through the checking of requirements and requests.
• Show initiative and demonstrate ability to prioritise conflicting tasks.
• Able to problem solve under pressure.
• Respond to requests in an efficient and timely manner.
• Checks with clients to ascertain whether requests have been carried out to their satisfaction.
• Punctual, reliable and able to demonstrate flexibility when required.
• Assists colleagues and/or other departments to complete tasks where practical.

Responsibilities

• Manage all People related matters across the whole employee lifecycle including contracts, onboarding and induction, payroll, confirmation of employment, references, probation, secondments and leaver logistics.
• Manage People database - create accounts, update changes, maintain accuracy of data, keeping adequate staff’s record including but not limited to personal data, annual leave, etc.
• Work with the Rewards and Benefits team to ensure all new joiners are enrolled in benefits schemes.
• Provide employees with general People policy advice.
• Regularly catch up with employees to act as a bridge between employees and management, escalating concerns as necessary, providing support to employees.
• Work with the Learning and Development team on training related matters for employees.
• Support Resourcing team with recruitment of lawyers and business services employees.
• Support and work closely with internal Diversity & Inclusion committee and networks to build and maintain employee engagement in relation to diversity.

Skills

People operations

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Discretion & confidentiality

Time management

Communication

Teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Job description

Herbert Smith Freehills Singapore is seeking a motivated People Advisor to manage the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, payroll, and compliance, while collaborating with Recruitment, Reward, L&D, and payroll teams. The role supports Prolegis initiatives and may involve secondments to HSFK projects.

You will partner with the General Counsel and Risk teams to ensure legal and regulatory compliance and contribute to Early Careers and diversity initiatives in a fast-paced legal setting.