HR Advisor

Overview

In this HR Advisor role, you provide generalist HR guidance to legal and business services teams within a leading law firm. You’ll support key HR processes in the UK and globally as part of a client-facing business partner model. You’ll influence people decisions, handle employee relations, and help design solutions that align with the firm’s collaborative, high-performance culture. The opportunity combines policy work, analytics, and stakeholder engagement in a flexible, hybrid environment.

Pay / Benefits

• pension
• private medical insurance
• Denplan
• season ticket loan
• subsidised gym membership
• cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day HR advice and guidance to legal and business services teams
• Offer mediation and guidance on employee relations matters
• Support design and delivery of HR solutions for client groups
• Coordinate material for annual appraisals, promotions, salary reviews, and bonuses
• Assist talent management and succession planning with HR Managers
• Serve as main HR contact for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) office
• Review and draft complex HR correspondence and contracts
• Analyze management information and flag issues to HR Managers
• Coordinate parental leave processes and ensure paperwork
• Manage absence monitoring and occupational health referrals in collaboration with Reward team on PHI claims
• Oversee end-of-probation reviews, issues, and documentation
• Conduct exit interviews and support immigration processes in line with Home Office requirements
• Contribute to ad hoc projects including policy drafting and system/process updates

Key requirements

• CIPD qualified
• HR Advisor-level experience in a professional services environment
• Strong PC literacy and systems skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to influence, build trust, and manage stakeholder relationships

• Collaborative team player
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work with urgency
• HR information systems
• Management information analysis
• Absence management and occupational health coordination

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