HR Administrator

HR Administrator (hybrid working)

Leeds, LS11

Full-Time, Permanent Position (flexible hours between 08:00 - 18:00)

£25,207.00 pa

REF: FP1002

Would you like to work in an exciting city centre office overlooking the Leeds skyline? Our prestigious client is looking for an individual with a willingness to learn, flexibility, highly motivated, and excellent communication skills to work in their city centre office for this full-time permanent, HR Administrator position. This is a hybrid position, 2 days working from home, 3 days office based, and offers an excellent salary and bonus/benefits package.

This exciting role will be delivering day-to-day transactional administration support primarily to the Firm’s Human Resources department but also within the wider Global Solutions teams such as HR administration support.

Working within a shared services environment, under the supervision of the Global Solutions Operational Manager, the successful candidate will collaborate and support the HR team on the full employee life-cycle process from onboarding, references, maternity, leave of absence, data entry, secondments, and probation to off boarding.

As a HR Administrator your key responsibilities will be:

• Completing all administration and tasks related to the joiner and leaver processes
• Completing all administration and tasks related to staff changes, including: paternity leave, maternity leave, secondment, sick leave and other absences, and change in job/department status
• Liaising with Payroll regarding all joiners, leavers and changes
• Liaising with HR Data Entry team regarding joiners, leavers and changes
• Ensuring that HR system, Holiday and Absence Tracking System and Firm’s Intranet Directory are kept up to date and comply with data protection legislation
• Conducting monthly reporting tasks to maintain all Reed Smith HR systems and keeping key stakeholders up to date
• Maintaining up to date filing systems which comply with data protection legislation
• Regular attendance and participation at both one-to-one meetings and full team meetings as required

The HR Administrator will demonstrate:

• Flexibility to learn new skills and work across multiple Global Solutions teams after the primary focus of supporting the HR Department
• Work to set deadlines, KPI’s and SLA’s ensuring any escalations are raised timely
• Demonstrate a high level of service delivery; do what is necessary to ensure customer satisfaction; deal with service failures and prioritise customer needs
• Working as part of a team embracing operational excellence ways of working and best in class service delivery
• Support process improvement activities and share ideas of where can be streamlined or make processes and procedures more efficient

Experience required for the HR Administrator position:

• Experience and knowledge of working within a Shared Services environment would be advantageous but not essential
• Some administrative experience in a professional services firm is advantageous along with good organisational skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Strong Microsoft excel skills
• Strong focus on customer service and responsiveness, including responding and solving problems effectively and in a timely manner to enquires.
• An energetic, hands-on individual with a strong bias for action, someone who commits themselves fully to stretch goals, is receptive to ongoing coaching and development and who is dedicated to delivering outstanding results with a keen eye for accuracy
• A highly motivated team player who contributes to an atmosphere in which people work together to produce superior results
• Ability to solve problems in a creative manner, to grasp and apply new ideas
• Self-starter and initiative to manage priorities and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage multiple and competing demands and manage multiple tasks and deadlines

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT INTERVIEWS WILL NOT BE TAKING PLACE FOR THIS ROLE UNTIL jANUARY 2025.

Please Note: Due to the volume of applications we receive for each position, we are unable to respond to all applications, therefore if you haven’t been contacted within 14 days, please be advised that your application has been unsuccessful at this time and we wish you all the best of luck in your search.