HR Assistant - London - Cms

Company Name: CMS
Location: England

Are you an HR professional looking for your next challenge; are you
interested in working for a leading international law firm? Previous legal
sector or professional services experience would be ideal but is not
essential for this opportunity.
You will be expected to have excellent attention to detail, thrive in a
fast-paced environment, be able to take ownership of tasks and be
comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels.
You will have strong HR knowledge and are able to manage a range of issues.
You will develop good coaching, influencing and negotiation skills. You are
methodical and organised in your approach, an energetic resilient
individual, who has a proactive ‘can do’ attitude, with a willingness to
learn and develop.

About The Role

Working with our HR generalist team, you will ensure the delivery of a
proactive and high quality HR service to the business including:

• Managing all aspects of the employee lifecycle
• Carrying out new joiner catch ups and exit interviews and ensuring that
  

any key points are addressed

• Managing the parental leave process
• Handling flexible working requests
• Successfully delegating to the HR Administration team
• Maintaining accurate records
• Assisting with occupational health referrals
• Acting as first point of contact for procedure/policy queries
• Building strong relationships with all stakeholders
• Assisting with secondments
• Working closely with the wider HR team to ensure a full HR service is
  

provided to employees and partners

• Supporting the HR Business Partner and HR Advisor on ad hoc projects
• keeping up—to-date with changes to employment law and legislation
• Providing basic HR and employee relations support, coaching and guidance
  

where necessary.

• Supporting and empowering Partners and Managers to effectively deal with
  

a range of people issues, such as giving feedback, managing performance and
dealing with disciplinary issues and grievances as they arise.

• Supporting cyclical HR activity such as performance reviews and the
  

annual reward cycle.

• Collating and provide high quality MI to Partners, Managers and the HR
  

Business Partner.

• Working with colleagues to drive innovation and continuous improvement
  

across the HR function, creating and revising policies, procedures and
processes that reflect best practice, and managing HR project work.

About Us

CMS are delighted to be named Law Firm of the Year at the 2018 British
Legal Awards.
CMS is an international law firm with market leading businesses throughout
Europe, The Middle East, Asia and beyond.
Ranked as the world’s 6th largest law firm by lawyer headcount and 6th
largest in the UK by revenue, CMS works with clients in 42 countries from
74 offices worldwide.
A future facing law firm CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the
future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the
possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering
legal services. And we recruit, value and nurture top talent.
Equal opportunities
CMS is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment, to not
only adhere to current employment law, but to harness the full potential of
our staff and ensure that all individuals are treated fairly and with
respect. To meet this aim CMS endeavours to treat all staff and job
applicants equally, on the basis of merit and the ability to do their job.
Everybody will be treated equally regardless of race, colour, age, religion
or belief, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital or civil
partner status, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability,
sexual orientation, and pregnancy or maternity status (“Protected
Characteristics”).
For further information about CMS’ diversity initiatives and programmes,
please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

• Seniority level

  Entry level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  Human Resources

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