Human Resources Coordinator

Latham & Watkins, a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world, is seeking a Human Resources Coordinator to join our friendly, dynamic and growing Human Resources team in Singapore.

**About Latham & Watkins**

Latham & Watkins is dedicated to hiring and developing the best and brightest. A key to Latham’s success and our continued ability to deliver the highest quality service to our clients is our “one-firm” culture - a spirit of teamwork and shared commitment to quality across our offices worldwide that has long distinguished Latham from other law firms.

**About the role**

A new and exciting opportunity for a Human Resources Coordinator to support the Asia HR department by ensuring that the transactional and operational responsibilities of the department are met in a timely manner. You’ll be responsible for completing all necessary steps of employee life cycle including onboarding, orientation and integration. Providing assistance to attorneys, paralegals and staff by using available resources to provide answers to their human resources questions, is also an important part of this role. Other key responsibilities include:

- Coordinating new hire orientations by developing agendas, including scheduling with multiple presenters, leading human resources sessions of orientation, and ensuring that questions from new employees are answered.
- Acting as a point of contact for human resources questions from attorneys, paralegals and staff in the office. Understanding a majority of the human resources policies of the firm and is able to answers most questions independently. Exercising appropriate judgment to route complex questions and issues to appropriate resources and follows-up to ensure the issue is resolved in a timely manner.
- Entering data in PeopleSoft and Latham Facebook including new hire entries, leaves of absence, and terminations. Using PeopleSoft to generate standard reports as requested.
- Completing EP, S pass visas online. Ensuring all visas are renewed in a timely manner.
- Acting as a point of contact in the office for questions regarding Annual leave. Understanding the annual leave policies.

**About you**

Join our team if you have:

- Comprehensive knowledge of Human Resources functions.
- Well-developed and professional interpersonal skills; ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm.
- The ability to work in a diverse global team environment with a customer service focus.

And have:

- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- The ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion.

We encourage you to apply
- Health insurance as well as group income protection and life assurance
- A pension plan
- Wellness programs
- Employee discounts
- And more

Latham & Watkins is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our commitment to diversity, equal opportunity and sustainability enables Latham & Watkins to draw from a remarkable wealth of talent to create one of the world's leading law firms.

Latham & Watkins' lawyers, paralegals, and professional staff worldwide comprise a rich mixture of different races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, cultures, and primary languages. Our diversity makes us who we are.

What sets Latham & Watkins apart is our commitment to our pro bono work and sustainability initiatives. Latham's dedication to pro bono work is a source of pride and reflects a fundamental part of the firm’s culture. For more information about our pro bono work, please click here.

Latham & Watkins is committed to supporting the long-term sustainability of the environment, you can find more information on our sustainability programs by visiting our Latham Sustainability webpage.
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Job Location

Singapore, Singapore

Department

Human Resources

Position Type

Full-Time/Regular