HR Administration Assistant – 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Posted 3 days ago by Addleshaw Goddard
Negotiable
Fixed-Term
Undetermined
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The HR Administration Assistant role involves providing comprehensive support to the global HR team, managing various tasks throughout the employee life cycle from onboarding to retirement. The position requires adherence to standard processes and service level agreements to ensure efficient HR and payroll operations. The ideal candidate will possess strong administrative skills and a customer service orientation, contributing to continuous improvement within the HR function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivers a diverse administration service including Core HR lifecycle and Core Payroll activities across different regions.
- Ensures accurate and timely entry of new starters, lifecycle changes, and leavers into HR/Payroll systems to meet payroll deadlines.
- Provides advice to employees and managers on HR and payroll queries and usage of the HR system.
- Liaises with payroll teams to investigate and resolve payroll-related queries and issues.
- Identifies opportunities for process improvements and enhancements in HR system functionality.
Key Skills:
- Customer service or operational administration experience in a professional environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong IT skills, including complex HR systems and Excel, with analytical capabilities.
- Experience working to strict deadlines and managing a varied workload.
- Demonstrable experience in delivering on service level agreements.
- Experience liaising with third-party suppliers to resolve issues.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: HR
We are looking for a hardworking and reliable HR administrative assistant to join our ambitious Human Resources Administration dream team! Your job will be working directly within our HR Administration team to provide support to the global HR team by performing a variety of tasks adhering to standard processes, ensuring the service is provided in an efficient and effective manner, in line with service level agreements. In this position, you will be involved in the full employee life cycle from onboarding right the way through to retiring.
What You'll Do:
- Delivers a diverse administration service which includes (but may not be limited to) Core HR lifecycle activity and Core Payroll activity for a number of different regions.
- Ensures all new starter, lifecycle changes and leavers are entered into the HR/Payroll systems in an accurate and timely fashion to meet payroll deadlines, allowing for accurate and timely payments via the payroll team.
- Provides advice to employees and managers on general HR and payroll related queries and how to access and use the HR system and other information sources.
- Liaises with the in-house and outsourced payroll teams to investigate and resolve any payroll related queries and issues.
- Provides feedback on a regular basis and identifies opportunities for improvements in our processes and automated functionality of the HR system.
Who We're Looking For:
- Customer service or operational administration experience within a professional or commercial environment
- Exceptional attention to detail in all aspects of work produced.
- Strong IT skills including use of complex HR systems and Excel, highly analytical with the ability to manipulate data as required.
- Experience of working to strict deadlines and managing a varied, changing & busy workload.
- Previous demonstrable experience of working within and delivering on service level agreements.
- Experience of liaising with third party suppliers to resolve issues.
Why Choose Us? Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are not just valued but encouraged to reach your full potential. Our culture promotes improvement, growth, and collaboration, making us the natural choice for top-tier clients. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.
Interested? If this role sounds like your next career step, we'd love to hear from you. Click the Apply button to view the full role profile on our website and start your application!