HR Assistant

HR Assistant (FTC) - The role:

Join our dynamic People Services team as an HR Assistant, where you'll play a vital role in supporting HR Managers and Advisors from our Colchester office, with occasional travel to London.

• You'll be our first point of contact for HR-related queries, providing professional advice, and escalating more complex questions where needed.
• Your daily tasks will include managing HR processes, from onboarding to leavers' administration, and supporting the full employee lifecycle.
• This engaging role offers the opportunity to be part of ad hoc HR projects, aid the annual appraisal process, and ensure smooth client secondments.
• With a focus on accuracy and efficiency, you'll uphold our high standards in delivering HR services across global offices.
• If you're a proactive team player who thrives on juggling priorities, embracing challenges, and improving processes, this position offers a great opportunity to contribute to our firm's success while developing your HR career.

This role is offered on a 12 month fixed term contract basis.

HR Assistant (FTC) - What we're looking for:

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Experience as an HR Assistant with familiarity with HR processes, preferably in a corporate environment.
• Strong administrative skills evidenced by experience in such roles, keen attention to detail, and pride in delivering quality work.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications, with additional skills in HR systems such as Workday, Neocase, and iTrent being advantageous.
• Excellent verbal communication and written skills, alongside the ability to prioritise tasks and demonstrate initiative and common sense.
• The capacity to adapt to a constantly evolving team, maintain professionalism under pressure, and positively contribute to process improvements.

These qualifications and experiences are essential to managing a varied workload and interacting effectively with diverse personalities within a close-knit environment.

HR Assistant (FTC) - What's on offer?

This role is based in our Colchester office, with a hybrid working model.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave.
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).