Human Resource Advisory Specialist at Hogan Lovells

A Human Resource specialist providing day to day operational support to both the GBSC and the local Hogan Lovells Johannesburg practice in all aspects related to payroll, local reward and recognition practices, people development practices, employee wellness, HR policy and process design, people change management as well as advisory and risk management practices.

• Providing advice and support to management on a range of HR matters, including terms and conditions of employment, absenteeism management, employee wellness practices.
• Act as overall custodian for all local people policies, ensuring accuracy and relevance through continuous improvement practices.
• Act as go to person in all people related firm's policies and processes.
• Ensure timeous responses to GBSC and practice employees on a range of HR matters through the active management and trend analysis of the HR support contact channels ( i.e HR inboxes)
• Monitoring of overtime and agile working condition through robust reporting, whilst working with relevant managers to ensure fair labour practices and capacity.
• Monitoring sickness absence levels from absence reports and working closely with the relevant managers and the firm's Occupational Health Adviser to manage sickness absence cases, including long term sickness claims.
• Support local leadership in all aspects relating to appropriate disciplinary and grievance protocol ensuring adherence to aspects of procedural and substantive fairness
• Act Employee relation representative at local labour councils ensuring the reputational integrity of Hogan Lovells remain above reproach
• Provide administrative direction to the local HR administrators as required ensuring robust recordings management
• Support local leadership with the management of study assistance programmes and ensuring appropriate selection criteria and contractual commitments
• Manage and advise on all operational aspects of the different employee contracts and ensure effective implementation of contractual obligation in effort to mitigate people and financial risk.
• Support local HR management with the identification of people risk, effective control identification and continuous review of the risk.
• Monitoring contractual end dates and liaising with managers to agree and arrange appropriate actions.
• Assisting with alignment and standardization of performance management and personal development across all functions of both the legal practice and GBSC
• Analysing performance review statistics and identifying any training/mentoring needs/requests.
• Develop and implement coaching and mentoring best practices enabling mature leadership practices
• Take overall accountability for the effective change management and people aspects of all project executed across the GBSC and the legal practice, enabling effective change adoption
• Act as project owner and key driver of all local people projects ensuring effective engagement, communication and implementation

Qualification:

• B Degree Human Resources/ Industrial Psychology
• Certification in Employee Relations
• Certification in Payroll management/ reward and recognition (Preffered)

Experience:

• Human Resource Advisory and Operational Management - Min 5 years Supervisory
• Payroll and Benefit management - Min 5 years Supervisory
• Project and Change Management - Min 3 Years Operational
• Policy design - Min 3 Years Operational