Opportunities

About Us

McCabes is an Australian Commercial, Government, and Insurance law firm with a reputation for providing high quality, timely legal services. Balanced with a strong internal emphasis on culture and values, we combine innovation with commercial savviness to deliver rewarding outcomes to all our clients.

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for an energetic, driven, and passionate HR coordinator to join our Human Resources team on a permanent, full-time basis. This role is suited to someone who has solid HR administration/coordination experience, ideally gained within the legal profession.

Reporting to the HR Director and working closely with the Senior HR Advisor and other team members, without limiting its scope, the key responsibilities of this role will include:

• Maintaining the firm's HR information system (Employment Hero)
• Maintaining employee records and personnel files
• Managing key dates and the HR calendar of events
• Managing Law Society processes including practising certificate renewals and professional standards scheme renewals
• Providing support for onboarding and offboarding employees
• Supporting the Senior HR Advisor with recruitment activities, including briefing recruiters, candidate screening and interviewing
• Working with payroll on a regular basis regarding employee entitlements, benefits, parental leave payments and changes to work arrangements
• Ensuring all employee changes are administered within agreed processes and timeframes
• Assisting with the planning, coordination and logistics of our graduate program
• Supporting the wider HR team with core processes including cyclical activities such as performance and remuneration reviews
• Providing support on data/reporting requests
• Assisting with various HR projects and initiatives
• Ad-hoc administration tasks

Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Previous HR experience as a HR administrator/coordinator obtained within the legal profession or a professional services environment
• A passion for all things HR
• Advanced skills in MS office suite
• Experience entering and updating data in HRIS systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Outstanding time management skills
• A willingness to learn, positive approach and strong initiative
• Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to effectively deal with competing priorities and progress multiple tasks through to completion within required deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills and a natural ability to build rapport with clients
• Good problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

What We Offer

In return, McCabes will provide you with the opportunity to work with a talented team in a flexible, inclusive, and innovative environment. We also promote a culture focused on the firm's values - integrity, excellence, and courage - that provides opportunities to develop and progress your career.

We are small enough to give you the personal attention and career development to help you reach your full potential, yet large enough to provide the challenge of diverse, high-quality work and clients.

Other benefits include:

• Access to direct mentoring from senior members of the HR team
• A competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Health and wellbeing initiatives

How to Apply

If you wish to become part of a busy and successful practice with a distinguished reputation, please submit your cover letter and CV by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button.

Please note that we are not accepting applications submitted by recruitment agencies for this position.