HR Assistant - Legal - North

Wise May are looking for a proactive HR Assistant to join a legal practice based near Highgate.

This role offers you the opportunity to be the first point of contact for HR queries, ensuring the smooth running of the office whilst helping to shape HR functions of the business.

This is a Full-time, permanent role with hybrid working. The hours are 9:30am - 5:30pm.

• Supporting with the end-to-end employment lifecycle including recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews and leavers process.
• Managing all changes to policy documentation and processes.
• Ensuring various systems and internal databases are up to date, accurate, controlled and processed in accordance with GDPR and DPA with the relevant training provided by the company.
• Supporting with the probation process including ensuring reviews are taking place, meeting with new joiners to get feedback, analysing the feedback and proposing process efficiencies where necessary.
• Provide ad hoc reports on quantitative and qualitative data as required, providing analysis as appropriate and ensure integrity of data as required using relevant software to analyse data.
• Liaising with payroll on any related matters.
• Critically analyse our processes in order to help simplify and standardise various HR areas.
• Organising the induction process, reviewing materials regularly and ensure they are up to date, meeting new joiners on their first or second day in the office and covering the HR processes with them.

• Previous experience in a HR role within the Legal or Professional Services sector.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to simplify and standardise HR processes by thinking outside the box.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
• A proactive, flexible, and team-oriented approach.

• 25 days holiday a year; plus, birthdays and the period between Christmas and New Year.
• Pension contributions as per the pension scheme.
• Access to private medical insurance.
• A growing wellbeing programme with an exceptional range of initiatives and benefits such as the Employee Assistance Programme. This offers all colleagues generous access to professional services to help with wellbeing and mental health.
• Free training opportunities.
• Bicycle funding as part of the Cycle to Work scheme.