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We're looking for a HR Manager to join our fast-growing Madrid office. This is a dynamic and busy role, where no two days will be the same. You will be joining our supportive and friendly global HR team who are focussed on providing the best possible service to our clients, both internal and external.

Our Firm

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.

With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Our Madrid office provides a full-service legal team, working with our global teams on international projects.

The team in Madrid is backed by a wealth of knowledge and experience in practice areas and industry groups such energy, real estate, taxation and IP, among others. The office also acts as a hub for European clients investing in Latin America.

Our Opportunity

This is a varied role; you'll be responsible for managing the delivery of day-to-day HR support services to our busy Madrid office, as well as supporting our global administrative chiefs, regional directors and managers with the operations of the Madrid office, including matters concerning premises, information technology, finance and business development and marketing.

You'll conduct annual performance appraisals with staff, and have oversight of the recruitment process for the Madrid office, including the implementation of a recruitment strategy for graduate hires. In addition, you'll be responsible for onboarding and inducting new hires into the office, as well as facilitating administrative and regulatory aspects of departures, changes, secondments, leave of absence and transfers.

There is a significant Operations aspect to the role too, and you'll have oversight of the local office accounting and billing functions, as well as an understanding of the Spanish regulatory and tax requirements, to ensure an effective delivery of finance services in Madrid. You will also assist the Managing Partner in helping to drive billing and cash collections for the office. You'll work closely with our European Operations Manager, and be responsible for coordinating maintenance and repair works with the needs of the office.

You

You will have a minimum of five years' experience in a HR management role, ideally within an international law firm environment, along with proven team management experience, including supervisory, coaching and performance management skills.

The role will involve dealing with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external to the firm, therefore excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills are essential here. You'll have a high service ethic and 'can do' approach, with strong attention to detail. Given the varied nature of the role, well-developed organisational and time management skills are a must, and project management experience would be highly beneficial.

You must be fluent in both written and spoken English.

What you need to know

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first instance. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email. Please complete an online application. We will be reviewing applications and interviewing on an ongoing basis.

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.

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