• Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of human resources and personnel departments, develop and implement policies, programs and procedures regarding human resources planning, recruitment, training. • Develop occupation classification and pay structures and benefit administration.• Responsible for processing the entire payroll cycle, including pay (payments by electronic transfer), benefit entitlement, government remittances, journal entries, payroll account reconciliations, year-end procedures, and T4 preparation, preparing hiring packages, as well as termination and layoff packages• Administer and coordinate on boarding of new employees, internal and external training, health and safety meetings, and employee performance and appraisal programs. • Maintain all Human Resource records including, personnel information, records of employee attendance, leave and overtime, as well as employee training records. • Act as primary liaison for employees and provide information with regards to their queries in reference to HR and payroll matters, benefits administration, etc.

• Manage end-to-end firm-wide maternity leaves, parental leaves, leaves of absences, transfers, client secondments and involuntary & voluntary departures for lawyers• Coordinate payroll change notices, memos, background checks, employment verifications, employment history reports and letters for associate departures, leaves and secondments. • Information Management - Maintain the firm’s HRIS system, by updating lawyer compensation, professional development updates and leave information.• Develop and document basic HR policies and procedures for internal purposes, templates & any policy changes • Strategically develop personnel status reports consisting of 200+ law clerks to be utilized by department director for recruitment forecasting and needs analysis• Train and educate new staff on systems and procedures, implementation of best practice; create welcome binder containing new employee documentation and training materials.