HR Business Assistant

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Business Assistant to join our HR Operations team on a 9‑month fixed‑term contract based in Birmingham.

As a key member of our HR team, you’ll be the first point of contact for employees and partners, providing a friendly, professional, and responsive HR service. You’ll support colleagues throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle and play an important role in creating a positive and engaging employee experience.

You’ll be working in a busy, fast‑paced environment where no two days are the same, so being organised, accurate, and approachable is key. This is a great entry‑level HR role for someone keen to learn — you’ll build your understanding of HR systems, policies, and processes while gaining hands‑on experience across a wide range of HR activities, helping you develop your skills and confidence as you grow in the role.

Location:

Birmingham, with travel to London.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a fast‑paced environment and brings a genuine interest in HR, supported by a sound understanding of HR administration. You’ll be comfortable handling a varied workload and will take pride in delivering work accurately and efficiently, even when juggling competing priorities.

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring strong IT capability, with confidence using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to support day‑to‑day delivery and maintain high standards of service. You’ll be proactive and solutions‑focused, with the ability to identify opportunities to improve processes and systems and contribute ideas that help drive a more efficient and effective service.

You’ll be a collaborative team player who takes ownership of their work and is tenacious in seeing tasks through to completion. Strong interpersonal skills are essential, enabling you to build positive working relationships and communicate clearly and professionally with colleagues across the firm.

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week’s extra annual leave.
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
• A generous pension allowance.
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
• The chance of a three‑month sabbatical every five years.
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
• State‑of‑the‑art offices, with an onsite restaurant.
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re‑assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description, please contact Meg Astley at .