Job Description

A Business Partner role stretches across the gamut of HR activities touching an employee's life-cycle at various stages in a Business Unit. This involves talent management, Reward and Recognition, Performance Management & payroll etc. Apart from this incumbent would need to have analytical bent of mind as he/she would be responsible for internal HRMS, employee data and its analysis.


Key Responsibilities

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  Partnering with business heads to provide advisory services, support and delivery in key aspects of HR
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  Be the HR subject matter expert & align HR best practices to business needs
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  Collaborate with business team to ensure compliance and traction across various employee life-cycle processes
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  Plan and execute Engagement activities across the unit
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  Interact with functions to resolve process breakdown issues
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  Manage employee conflict, issues and grievances and act as an employee facilitator
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  Build the HR brand in the unit and external forums through participation in conclaves, seminars etc.
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  Custodian of HR process - identify process/policy gaps and work on addressing them
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  Work on various HR domains to drive a disciplined deployment, change management, best practices sharing and collaboration
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  Work closely with HR Leadership on talent development and other projects.
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  Facilitating automation, process implementation & process improvement.
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  Communicate findings to HR Leadership team via formal presentations, standard management reporting artifacts on periodic/quarterly/annual basis.
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  Responsible for conducting regular meetings with the operations team to ensure that the team co-ordinates effectively, problems are identified and timely action is taken to avoid service failures or last-minute resolution
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  Provide payroll inputs to payroll team including leave and attendance reconciliation
  

Skills & Experience

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  Qualifications: MBA in HR from a premier institute
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  Minimum 6+ years' experience overall in HR domain
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  Proficient in MS Excel ; Excellent in number crunching.
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  Prior knowledge of Workday is desirable
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  Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and judgement
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  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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  Inter-personal Skills
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  High level of attention to detail
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  Team player
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  Excellent presentation skills
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  Process driven with proven ability to document processes
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  Ability to flex with changed business priorities and think strategically
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  Ability to deal with ambiguity and agile pace of working
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  High learning agility and with good business acumen
  

About the Firm

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The Firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution. Clifford Chance's aim is to be the leader of an elite group of law firms.

We are a purpose-driven business with core values at the heart of everything we do, we actively demonstrate what it means to do the right thing both internally and externally. We want to create a space where everyone feels respected, included, valued and listened to and our values are demonstrated through our behavior. Our Code of Conduct is value based and embodies five Principles – Act with Integrity, Be Inclusive, Embrace Challenge, Speak Up and Act Responsibly.

We offer you the opportunity to join a global law firm with one of the most pre-eminent legal practices in the world. We have an established presence in India for more than ten years, delivering value and supporting Clifford Chance offices across the globe in the areas of Information Technology, Finance, Business Research, Legal Support, Document Production, Project Management and Continuous Improvement. We have been certified as a 'Great Place to Work' in India for implementing people practices that foster collaboration and enable employees to reach their full potential. We are proud of the colleagues who work for us and of the service that together we provide, many of whom are experts in their own sectors. Join us and you will experience, first-hand, the one firm, one team approach that makes working at Clifford Chance so different.

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Equal Opportunities

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. We believe that each and every one of us should experience an equality of opportunity and an equality of experience here. We are always working to develop and deliver the best and most innovative approaches to make that happen. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are therefore committed to treating all employees and job applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, color, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.

This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

The firm will regularly review its procedures and selection criteria to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated according to their relevant individual abilities and merits.

We have a number of initiatives and networks that support our aspiration to be the Global Law Firm of choice. These include our LGBT, Gender Parity, Ethnicity and Disability networks. Find out more here.