HR Advisor - 12 months FTC

The Role

• Provide advice and guidance to managers and employees across all regions on all HR policies, practices and procedures.
• Ensure employee absenteeism is monitored and reported monthly, and any issues are dealt with at the earliest opportunity.
• Maintain the employee records via the HRIS system
• Resolve queries, escalate as necessary and log if appropriate
• Identify and suggest areas of improvement
• Support the life cycle of administration for new starters and leavers
• Maintaining accurate and up to date records; pension, sickness absence, holiday, payroll, recruitment etc
• Supporting the recruitment process as an when required
• Work with managers and stakeholders to provide advice and support with all people related issues – including supporting disciplinary, absence, grievance and redundancy meetings etc
• Supporting the HR Director and the wider HR team in the delivery of the people plan and working on HR projects appropriately, these could range from restructuring, systems, reward & benefits, health and wellbeing etc.
• Provide a high-quality service and act as a trusted HR Advisor whilst building credible stakeholder relationships.
• Provide HR administrative support – drafting offer letters/contracts of employment/ administer new starters and leavers process as required.
• Liaising with payroll as and when required and ensuring employee records are kept accurate and up to date.

Skills required

• Ideally CIPD level 5 qualified or working towards
• Proven experience of working as generalist HR Advisor, ideally gained in a commercial fast paced environment
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law
• Strong experience of building relationships and managing stakeholder
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate and engage with employees at all levels
• Ability to use own initiative and good problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong IT skills – MS Office, including outlook, excel, powerpoint, word
• Accurate and timely delivery of tasks coupled with excellent organisational skills