Due to our continued success and ambitious growth plans at Foot Anstey, we are looking for an enthusiastic HR Administrator to join our HR team in Plymouth on a permanent basis. In this role you will be joining a team of 8 friendly HR Administrators and HR Advisors, led by Kerri O'Driscoll (People and Reward Manager). This is a varied generalist role, where you will work with colleagues across HR to provide support where needed on administrative tasks relating to recruitment/starters and leavers, performance, employee wellbeing, benefits and payroll. You'll take pride in delivering a professional and efficient service to internal and external clients and be well organised in your work.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has some prior experience within a HR/People function or good administrative experience to join a team and firm who are passionate about realising the ambitions of our employees. At Foot Anstey we are hugely proud of our welcoming and open culture within the team and wider firm, where you will be personally and professionally developed, having regular check-ins to support your continued success. We care enormously about our work and are looking for someone who shares our values to help us deliver the best results to our internal and external stakeholders.

What you'll do:

• Provide general support to HR team members with a range of administrative tasks which could include:
• Data inputting, data reporting, and dealing with the preparation and analysis of Management Information as requested from time to time
• Collate information and produce letters in conjunction with HR colleagues relating to communications with employees across a range of confidential matters
• Coordinate interviews with candidates on behalf of our Recruitment/Talent Acquisition team
• Recruitment onboarding, working with colleagues to progress offer documentation (letters, contracts of employment, job descriptions), and onboarding activities (pre-employment checks, references and sanctions checks)
• Create new employee records, including personnel files, ensuring information is complete and accurate up to receipt of references for handover to the HR team
• Provide updates to internal teams regarding new initiatives or enhanced benefits offerings to our people
• Project work including assisting with improvements to our careers pages and adoption of new technologies and platforms
• End to end process management for a range of core HR activities such as leavers, probation, contract changes etc.
• And as a valued member of the team, you will be the go to person for first line HR queries and support.

What we're looking for:

• Excellent attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
• Highly organised, with excellent planning and administration skills, experience of working to deadlines, juggling workload and priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with stakeholders
• Fully proficient across the Microsoft Office suite with good Excel skills
• Personal accountability and ability to demonstrate integrity throughout all work delivered
• The ability to review processes and identify areas of improvement/efficiencies
• The ability to demonstrate excellent examples of adaptability, initiative and ownership
• A good team player who can work effectively in a multi-site business and team environment.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team. Contact us at recruitment.team@footanstey.com and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients' most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and Digital Skills Academy, and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it's something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.