Herbert Smith Freehills Hiring for SENIOR HR ADVISER, HR OPERATIONS, 12-18 MONTH CONTRACT Job at Melbourne Full Time

We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Adviser to join our national HR Operations team on a maximum term contract for 12 to 18 months, based in our Sydney (Macquarie Park), Melbourne or Brisbane office.

In this role you will provide leadership to the national HR Operations team to ensure we have a high performing team dedicated to contributing to a service focused culture, continuous process improvement and to creating a positive stakeholder experience. You will also support the Senior HR Manager Operations & Policy to deliver initiatives and cyclical processes.

Some of the key responsibilities will include:

• Management of:

  • National HR Operations Team

  • AskHR help desk – including training, monitoring and providing accurate, timely responses to staff requests, rostering/leave cover, improvements in functionality for HR and HSF staff

  • Pre-employment check process and database maintenance

  • Annual cyclical processes eg SA/EC/SC promotions, manual remuneration review letters, annual Legal Services Award and casual remuneration reviews and communications

  • External Audit requirements associated with commencements and departures

• Review of HR templates for legislative and process changes;

• Responsible for general process improvement and subsequent communication to the HR Operations team and national HR team as needed

• Monitoring of our casual employee pool to ensure casual conversion obligations under Fair Work are met

• Administration, delivery and ongoing continuous improvement of national Induction program

• Support the Senior HR Operations Manager with managing Consultant engagements and updating the global data room

• Maintenance of HSF policies

• Ability to draft bespoke employment contracts and standard employee documents

• Oversight of psychometric testing functionality, exit surveys for Business Services and Practice Group teams,

• Provide training to HR team members and relevant stakeholders on best practice

• Contribute to national HR projects as needed

• Compliance with WHS obligations and responsibilities in accordance with the requirements for this role as set out on the intranet

• Tertiary qualifications with a HR major or equivalent.

• Business or professional services experience in managing an operations function or centre of excellence from a production and resourcing perspective.

• Good understanding of employment law principles.

• Ability to lead and bring out the best in a foundation team.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Commitment to provision of accurate and timely responses

Our competitive advantage is our people and our culture. Our Human Resources team works closely with leaders and people across the business to recruit exceptional people, nurture their development and guide their careers. As a member of our HR team, you will be working in a supportive and collaborative regional and global team of professionals that deliver HR business partnering, graduate and lateral recruitment, HR operations and compliance, global mobility, reward and remuneration, organisational development and diversity and inclusion.

What we offer:

• At Herbert Smith Freehills we value flexibility. For most roles, we work an average of 60% of the time in the office, taking into consideration individual, team, client and learning needs.

• To continue to support our staff working from home as a part of Agile 60, we offer an allowance for home office furniture as well as IT equipment.

• We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity and commerciality.

• We aim to support our people through their career and life milestones. We offer 26 weeks paid parental leave, which includes superannuation on both paid and unpaid parental leave up to 52 weeks. Our policy applies to parents regardless of gender, subject to six months of continuous employment at HSF.

• At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus, and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

• People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programs, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback.

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