HR Operations Coordinator

About Kirkland & Ellis

At Kirkland & Ellis, we are united in our ambition and drive to move forward. We share core values that help us achieve excellence: collaboration, talent empowerment, service, inclusion, respect and gratitude. Our people are our greatest asset, and we invest in the brightest talent and encourage a diversity of perspectives and strengths to create dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their field. Our talented professionals show up every day knowing they will engage in meaningful work, continuous learning and professional development.
 
As one of the world’s leading law firms, we serve a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and management; restructurings; high-stakes litigation and trials; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. We handle the most complicated and sophisticated legal matters because we don’t just meet industry standards, we create them. We bring innovation and entrepreneurialism to every engagement and, as a result, have long-standing client relationships with leading global corporations and financial sponsors. With 6,500 employees (including 3,500+ lawyers) operating from 19 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia, we are one of the largest law firms in the world and a top financial performer.

Essential Job Functions

The primary role of the HR Operations Coordinator is to assist with Time and Absence-related matters, on a firmwide basis.  In large part this role will assist employees and managers with Timesheet entries in the Firm’s time and attendance system, PeopleSoft.  On-going responsibilities include but are not limited to:  updating timesheets and absence entries on behalf of managers and employees, monitoring and fixing timesheet errors, creating and adding schedules for employees, maintaining setup fields on employee records, reviewing and adjusting absence balances, loading mass time entries in to timesheets, running reports for managers, running queries and using the results to update employee time and absence entries, reviewing and fixing data load errors, batch-processing absence entries and updating entitlement balances, annual absence entitlement and carryover processing, working closely with the Payroll team on the processes to load overtime and absences each pay period, working with the Firm’s technical teams to identify, log, and work system issues to resolution, participating in periodic system upgrades and enhancement projects, working closely with and training local office timekeepers, and maintaining and updating training documentation.

Secondarily, the HR Operations Coordiantor is responsible for assisting with HR data entry, such as updating home addresses and phone numbers, citizenships, diversity demographics, languages, office/cube entries, teleworker agreements, alumni information for departing attorneys, etc.

This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented and changed as necessary.

80% of Essential Functions:

1.   On-going PeopleSoft Administration

• Assist employees and managers with timecard, overtime, and absence-related questions;
• Adjust employee timesheets and absences, as applicable;
• Calculate vacation payouts;
• Ensure all timecards are balanced before payroll processing deadlines, including communicating with employees that have timecards which are not balanced;
• Run system absence calculations processing;
• Provide backup assistance to local office timekeepers during peak periods;
• Assist in overtime timesheet calculations; and

• Maintain and update on-going employee schedule changes.

2.  Assist in Report Generation for Firm

• Generate various system reports to ensure that all timecards are in balance and approved before sending time to payroll, and also ensure that hourly employees’ hours are submitted and approved each pay period;
• Generate and distribute reports upon request for employees, managers, and other local office timekeepers.
• Generate and analyze report information to identify trends, problem area(s) or additional training requirements and communicate information to appropriate parties.

20% of Essential Functions:

• Responsibility for accurate and timely data entry into PeopleSoft for new hires, personal changes such as name, phone, address, email, citizenship, visa, diversity demographics, education, clerkships, and languages, office/cube updates, teleworker agreements, etc. 
• The position is responsible for responding to employees and partners using standard email response templates, and cataloguing, retaining, and filing appropriate back-up paperwork. 

3.  Other duties as Assigned

Qualifications & Requirements

Education, Work Experience, Skills:

Degree in Human Resources, Business or Administration Preferred.  The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of maintaining confidentiality, multi-tasking, meeting strict deadlines, flexibility with problem solving and working well under pressure.  Technical experience should include the creation and manipulation of information in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.  Flexibility to work overtime is a must.  Human Resources experience with timekeeping is a plus.

Technologies/Software:

• Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access experience is a must
• Timekeeping software, PeopleSoft is preferred
• Zoom experience preferred

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