HR Business Assistant (9 month Fixed Term Contract)

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Business Assistant to join our HR Operations team on a 9-month fixed term contract based in Birmingham.

As a key member of our HR team youll be the first point of contact for employees and Partners providing a friendly professional and responsive HR service. Youll support colleagues throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle and play an important role in creating a positive and engaging employee experience.

Youll be working in a busy fastpaced environment where no two days are the same so being organised accurate and approachable is key. This is a great entrylevel HR role for someone keen to learn youll build your understanding of HR systems policies and processes while gaining handson experience across a wide range of HR activities helping you develop your skills and confidence as you grow in the role.

Location: Birmingham with travel to London

About you:

Were looking for someone who enjoys working in a fastpaced environment and brings a genuine interest in HR supported by a sound understanding of HR administration. Youll be comfortable handling a varied workload and will take pride in delivering work accurately and efficiently even when juggling competing priorities.

To succeed in this role youll bring strong IT capability with confidence using Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint to support daytoday delivery and maintain high standards of service. Youll be proactive and solutionsfocused with the ability to identify opportunities to improve processes and systems and contribute ideas that help drive a more efficient and effective service.

Youll be a collaborative team player who takes ownership of their work and is tenacious in seeing tasks through to completion. Strong interpersonal skills are essential enabling you to build positive working relationships and communicate clearly and professionally with colleagues across the firm.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at

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