diff --git a/scio-core/src/main/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollection.scala b/scio-core/src/main/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollection.scala
index f7f3221493..13a83efaee 100644
--- a/scio-core/src/main/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollection.scala
+++ b/scio-core/src/main/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollection.scala
@@ -807,6 +807,16 @@ sealed trait SCollection[T] extends PCollectionWrapper[T] {
   def min(implicit ord: Ordering[T]): SCollection[T] =
     this.reduce(ord.min)
 
+
+  /**
+   * Return the latest of this SCollection according to its event time, or null if there are no elements.
+   * @return
+   *   a new SCollection with the latest element
+   * @group transform
+   */
+  def latest: SCollection[T] =
+    this.pApply(Latest.globally())
+
   /**
    * Compute the SCollection's data distribution using approximate `N`-tiles.
    * @return
diff --git a/scio-core/src/test/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollectionTest.scala b/scio-core/src/test/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollectionTest.scala
index ba4ada0fb9..35e91a1335 100644
--- a/scio-core/src/test/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollectionTest.scala
+++ b/scio-core/src/test/scala/com/spotify/scio/values/SCollectionTest.scala
@@ -527,6 +527,14 @@ class SCollectionTest extends PipelineSpec {
     }
   }
 
+  it should "support latest" in {
+    runWithContext { sc =>
+      def latest(elems: Long*): SCollection[Long] =
+        sc.parallelize(elems).timestampBy(Instant.ofEpochMilli).latest
+      latest(1L, 2L, 3L) should containInAnyOrder(Seq(3L))
+    }
+  }
+
   it should "support quantilesApprox()" in {
     runWithContext { sc =>
       val p = sc.parallelize(0 to 100).quantilesApprox(5)