Lewis Silkin works with leading businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets - their ideas, their people, their brand and their future. We call it: Ideas. People. Possibilities.
With offices in London, Oxford, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast, Dublin and Hong Kong, we are recognised by clients and industry alike as being distinct for our unique culture, market-leading practice areas, sector focused approach and for providing solutions to complex, multijurisdictional business challenges, with a pragmatic and human touch. We have two things at our core: people — both ours and our clients’— and a focus on creative, tech and innovative businesses.
Our culture is encapsulated by an ethos of bravery and kindness, guided by our values of Integrity, Clarity, Unity and Excellence (our ‘I-CUE’). We aim to provide a supportive environment for our people, clients and wider community and embrace diversity & inclusion, ensuring people are able to bring their full selves to work. |
The role holder will report to the Chief People Officer, and will have responsibility for ensuring that all People administrative processes across the full employee lifecycle are carried out efficiently and to a high standard. This is an exciting and newly created role within a thriving and growing firm looking to invest in new people technologies and systems to ensure that our people continue to benefit from modern, progressive and people-centred working environments, in line with our truly inclusive, ambitious and supportive culture.
Key responsibilities
The role holder will review, streamline and optimise processes across the full range of Human Resources functions, in order to provide a consistent, accurate and high quality HR Operations service across the business. This will require setting up templates, developing a highly detailed People calendar with key milestones and deadlines, standardising key processes across all offices, and most importantly ensuring that services provided meet the needs of our people and their data, in alignment with the firm's data protection policies. It is expected that this will involve the introduction of service level agreements to ensure timely and quality of service, with defined and agreed measures and that are reported regularly. The incumbent will ensure the continuous review of all aspects of HR Operations to look for opportunities for automation, enhanced analytics and higher service levels.
The role holder will provide expert HR operations administration and advisory guidance and support across the firm and will have in-depth Employee Relations knowledge. In partnership with the CPO, they will ensure that all HR team members involved in the provision of HR Operations services are operating to the same high standard, and that they are equipped with the right skills and knowledge to do this. They will build networks, both internal and external to the firm, to understand trends, opportunities and data to continuously evolve their understanding of best practice HR Operations and the employee experience.
Working closely with the Reward and Benefits Manager, the role holder will be the firm’s HRIS superuser, responsible for management reporting, data analytics and insights for all key people systems and software. For at least the first 18 months, they will be the HR lead in a major firmwide project to review all HR tech systems, and they will play a key part in other HR and change projects.
The role will initially have one direct report (HR Assistant) and will jointly line manage one HR Administrator. Working closely with the HR Managers (Business Partner team), the role holder will also play a key role in the supervision, support and development of the team’s HR Officers.
An important aspect of the role will be to build networks, both internal and external to the firm, to understand trends, opportunities and data to continuously evolve their understanding of best practice HR Operations and the employee experience.
Person specification
- Previous experience of HR Operations management role within a professional services organisation.
- Excellent attention to detail with strong analytical/numeracy and problem-solving skills
- Good knowledge of HRIS, including implementation of system changes, change control management and auditing
- Data security
- Highly organised with ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Proactive, able to work on own initiative with flexibility to research independently
- Flexibility to travel between offices where necessary
- Capacity to apply discretion and maintain a high level of confidentiality when handling sensitive information
- Excellent team player, able to build great relationships with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external.
Academic Achievements/Specialist Skills
- CIPD qualification (desirable).
- Knowledge and experience of relevant UK legislation and best practice, including acquisitions and TUPE transfers (essential).
- Previous experience in HR Operations Management role within professional services (essential).
- Excellent IT skills, including prior use of document management systems and advanced Excel Skills, the ability to manipulate data and produce statistical information (essential)
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