Senior HR Advisor - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Audit Scotland

Audit Scotland

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an experienced HR advisor with solid generalist experience looking for an exciting role within a supportive and ambitious organisation? You believe that it is people that make great organisations. You know that finding and recruiting great people is at the heart of a world-class organisation. Diversity and equality are important to you and naturally flows through everything you do.

Our HR team provides accurate, high quality professional guidance and advice to managers across a range of employee relations matters - performance, grievance, disciplinary and redeployment. All of this drives your own personal development, research, networking and ability to persuade and influence others. There are seven of us within our team and we are at the very heart of Audit Scotland.
Audit Scotland is Scotland's largest public sector auditor and independent of government.

We employ more than 340 talented professionals who know that their work helps ensure the efficient delivery of public services.

We believe that public money (around £57 billion a year) should be spent wisely. We audit the Scottish Government, NHS Boards, local authorities, Scottish Parliament and many more public bodies across Scotland. People respect our work, our opinions and the work of our HR team in helping drive improvement.

We want to make sure Scotland makes the very best of the opportunities and that change is delivered well - transparent financial reporting and delivering value for money are key to this.

Our HR professionals help make this happen through the partnership, support and coaching they provide to our auditors.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us.

We offer a rewarding place to work, a supportive and open culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities.

Benefits include 42 days of annual leave including public holidays, flexible working, home working (we provide all of the digital and associated kit), competitive salary, a superb career-average pension scheme, lots of investment in your personal development and plenty of autonomy.

We're a Sunday Times Best Companies, award winning employer and regional leader across employers in Scotland.

Overall purpose of the role

As a Senior HR Advisor, you will have strong planning skills and the ability to take responsibility for managing short term projects through to delivery.

When you make a promise, you always keep it - you deliver on time, on budget and to high quality and are not afraid to seek feedback to improve your performance.

An effective team player and self-motivated, you will support the wider HR team and work in partnership with internal stakeholders, external consultants and employee union representatives building productive relationships to aid success.

You must be capable of managing and prioritising your workload, understanding when and where to seek additional support and approval.

You will be a true team player and work closely with colleagues across the business to help ensure our core service delivery is maintained to an excellent standard and key improvement programmes are well supported.

How you can help us
You'll help make Audit Scotland a world-class public sector audit organisation by:

Supporting the team with all current HR processes covering all aspects of the employee lifecycle, ensuring accurate and appropriate documentation and records. This includes appointments and new employees, employment changes, leavers processing, monthly payroll variables, maternity and paternity.
Provide effective support to line management on a range of issues including employment law, health & safety and employment policies as appropriate.
Managing absence and employee relations cases as appropriate, knowing when to escalate.
Support the production and review of key HR performance indicators and regular reports (including diary entries, sickness absence, evaluating learning & development activities), to support operational management and reporting of management information. Review and benchmark statistical data in conjunction with the HR Assistant Manager.
You understand systems and processes are the foundation of a solid HR infrastructure and you have the skills and experience to produce and interrogate statistical data as required.
Lead or support on specific HR projects which occur on an annual basis, for example, graduate recruitment, gender pay gap reporting, employee health checks, renewal of Disclosure Scotland checks, drafting staff handbook policy updates, employee survey data collections and our holiday review.
Deliver a quality, flawless and efficient inhouse HR service delivery function that is recognised as being superb when benchmarked with other professional services organisations and audit agencies from across the world (to ensure we deliver value for money for the UK taxpayer).
Work seamlessly with our colleagues in Communications to ensure that our Audit Scotland e