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Job Title Human Resources Coordinator
Job Location Dusseldorf
Job Type Business Services
Country/Territory Germany
Region UK & Europe
Description

Job Description | Human Resources Coordinator

Department: Human Resources

Location: Dusseldorf

The Team

The HR Coordinator plays a crucial role, offering administrative support across HR disciplines and will help manage the day to day administration and operational issues that arise for the three German offices (Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich). The HR Coordinator will report to the HR Manager Germany and work closely with the International HR Team assisting with and coordinating local and global HR projects.

Key Responsibilities

Systems, Policies and Procedures

  • Provide administrative support and work closely with local HR to produce employee letters, contract amendments, updating of the HR System with employee changes, and responding to ad hoc requests including sickness reporting.
  • Dealing with day-to-day queries and prioritise matters as necessary. Triaging emails through Service Now.
  • Tracking of employee working time.
  • Absence Management - log absences and review monthly reports on sickness, amount of annual leave taken, attrition or other relevant statistics.
  • Assist with the administration of ongoing cyclical activities such as performance reviews (Career Conversations), Talent Management and Salary review.
  • Supporting on mapping out of process and policies in Germany.
  • Administer the leavers process, ensuring the appropriate paperwork is prepared, leavers process is followed, and payroll notifications are made. In addition, collect and collate exit interview data on a regular basis for leavers, in accordance with the exit interview procedure.

Recruitment and Early Careers

  • Support with Early Careers (local careers events and preparation of materials) and assist with admin related to Trainees on and off boarding.
  • To record and monitor the stages of a candidate's progress from inception to on-boarding.
  • Interview / diary management - to ensure all parties are available / have confirmed their attendance, have any information required for the meeting and rooms are booked where required.
  • Production of standard and bespoke documentation e.g. offer letters, recruitment requisition forms, and maintenance of various documents to ensure relevance.
  • Administer the new joiner process including facilitation of the induction programme, ensuring the appropriate paperwork is prepared, new joiner process is followed, and new joiners experience a smooth arrival and feel welcomed into the Firm.
  • Assisting with the implementation and then managing the upkeep of a recruitment database to include logging candidates, managing, and updating contact information, CVs / other information to database records etc.
  • Facilitate the communication of information from the recruitment team to external suppliers and other parties (via the intranet, website, emails etc) to ensure our requirements are properly stated and subsequently met.
  • Collation of information and statistics for the use of the recruitment team including regular reporting on recruitment activity.

Data and HR Projects

  • Work alongside others in HR in carrying out ad-hoc project work such as scoping and producing reports, carrying out research, undertaking reference requests, and probationary period.
  • Regularly liaise with the wider HR Department to stay across methods of reporting, ensuring reports are being provided that are accurate and consistent to the manner in which the other offices are preparing reports.
  • Supporting on the roll out of key projects including Workday integration and implementation.

Building Relationships

  • Liaise with other departments and functions including Finance and Office Management

Essential Skills & Experience

  • First class analytical, prioritisation, organisational and task management skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to create and maintain relationships with staff, managers and partners naturally and confidently.
  • Proactiveness and initiative and the ability to continually seek out ways to improve processes and procedures and share ideas.
  • Excellent judgement and reasoning skills.
  • Previous experience in Human Resources
  • Good understanding of the importance of confidentiality and sensitivity.
  • Team player, consultative and inclusive with strong attention to detail.
  • A good working knowledge of MS packages and strong IT skills essential

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

  • Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success.
  • Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do.
  • Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement.
  • Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth.

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

  • Technical Excellence
  • People and Team
  • Client/Stakeholder Relationships
  • Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
  • Personal Effectiveness

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