HR Apprentice
Milbank LLP · London
AdministrationAdvanced Level 3On-site
About Company:
Milbank LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions for more than 150 years, to a client base spanning the both public and private sectors, including governments, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, export credit agencies, development banks and multilateral institutions, as well as private companies, lending institutions, private equity firms, hedge funds, institutional investors and financial institutions located around the globe who seek guidance on their most important and complex matters.
Milbank’s 1,000+ lawyers (including 229 partners) and over 1300 business service professionals are headquartered in New York and 10 other offices across the US, Europe and Asia, Milbank is the market-leader across multiple disciplines and practice areas, including Financial Restructuring, Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance, Transportation and Space, Leveraged Finance, Alternative Investments, Corporate Finance and Securities, Corporate/M&A, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, IT & Outsourcing, Litigation and Arbitration, Tax and Executive Compensation, and Benefits.
Milbank London has around 360 staff comprising of 250 lawyers (including 46 Partners) and is now Milbank’s second biggest office.
At Milbank LLP we are committed to treating all our people fairly and with dignity and respect. We recruit and develop our people based on their experience, abilities and qualifications, without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, ethnicity, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or socio-economic background.
Responsibilities
To provide pro-active administrative support to the team, including but not limited to:
• Liaising with line manager on the timely co-ordination for all staff of mid and end of probation meetings and the issuing of appropriate documentation.
• Preparing HR correspondence, using DocuSign where appropriate e.g. probation completion letters and reference requests.
• In conjunction with the HR Coordinators and HR Advisor, organising the Insights programme for work experience students.
• Uploading headshots to Workday and HR pages on the intranet.
• Running Workday reports: weekly headcount report; weekly contact details report and ad hoc reports.
• Monthly updates to organisational charts, including New Starter tab on intranet.
• Prepare Induction schedules for new joiners and arranging buddies and supervising partners.
• Assisting Senior HR Manager and HR Advisor with various HR audits, including medical questionnaires in NetDocs.
• E-filing including creating new staff files.
• Saving completed medical questionnaires from new starters in the relevant employee NetDocs folder.
• Scanning and shredding physical employee files.
• Ordering staff gifts, new baby hampers, flowers, etc.
• Preparing invoices for payments and completing invoice tracker.
• Managing the HR inbox and directing emails to the appropriate team members.
• May be required to support both the recruitment and professional development teams during busy periods.
• Ad hoc project work as required.
Skills required
• Previous work experience in customer service or professional services would be beneficial
• Good numerical skills
• Good IT skills, especially Word and Excel
Qualifications required
| • A minimum of five GCSE’s, including Maths and English, at grade 5 or higher • A Levels at Level C or above (or equivalent L3 qualification) required, subjects such as Business, Psychology or Sociology are preferred. |
Training you'll get
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Future prospects
This will be a temporary role - 18 month contract
The essentials
Hours, commitment and the dates that matter.
Hours
35 hours per week
Duration
18 months (Fixed Term)
Roles available
1
Posted
13 Aug 2026
Interviews
20 Aug 2026
Starts
Sep 2026
Apply by
29 Aug 2026
Training provider
BPP
Delivers the training for this role and manages your application.
Where you'd be based
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