HR Administrator

**Responsibilities**
- Support administration of HR processes including contracts, leaver documentation and changes to terms and conditions of employment.
- Acting as a centralised first line support to employees, resolving queries and signposting people to the right resources/solutions.
- Ensure that all relevant employee lifecycle and general administrative activities are managed in a timely and efficient manner, this includes pay and benefit variations.
- Ensure seamless delivery of HR administration, ensuring that the data follows correct processing paths to internal deadlines
- Organise & prepare monthly payroll in a timely manner, collating information, updating, reporting & process payroll variations.
- Process pension monthly in line with pension regulations, carrying out auto enrolment and administration of the company pension schemes.
- Manage the integrity of HR data ensuring accuracy and stability of HR data so to generate accurate reports and insights for the business partnering team.
- Whilst maintaining the information within the human resources information system (Cascade), proactively seek ways to improve the data we hold (e.g., reduce data held outside of the system).
- Using excellent HRIS and excel skills to report on data held within Cascade to generate people reports and key monthly HR KPI data.
- Working with the team to support the continuous improvement of HR processes including HR document management.
- Ensure there is a systematic approach to the management of time-sensitive operational process (e.g.probation process triggers, family leave calculations).

**About You**

**Skills and Behaviours**
- High attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment
- HR systems experience essential (preferably use of Cascade)
- Previous experience of administering payroll
- An exceptional administrator, with the ability to plan and prioritise, taking account of changing business needs
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Analytical, able to problem solve and use initiative to suggest process improvements
- Confident handling data in different systems, including excel at an advanced level

The HR team strive to deliver a excellent service and will support one another to achieve this. We are a team that likes to have fun and lighten the day even when we are on a deadline.

**About Us**

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- Support staff bonus scheme
- 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life Assurance
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
- Flu vaccinations
**What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?**

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 70, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service,we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’sLexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.
With eleven offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the ThamesValley, and our merger with Hewitsons has led to the addition of two new office locations (Northampton and Milton Keynes), and even further growth in London and Cambridge.
With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way theyneed, when they need it.

**At HCR, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, andwhich works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.