HR Advisor - Belfast, United Kingdom - Abacus Professional Recruitment
Description
Our client a leading global law firm are seeking to recruit an experienced
HR Advisor , your focus will be to support the HR Manager.
Business partnering and day to day operations
Building relationships and an understanding of the practice group, proactively identifying ways that HR can support people and operational priorities.
Provide HR advice and expertise on a wide range of generalist issues, taking into account the operational impact of any intervention.
Support the various change management initiatives underway across the firm and work with the HR Manager to communicate any organisational change to the practice areas as appropriate.
Employee Relations
First point of contact providing guidance and support to people managers, ensuring that all employee issues are resolved promptly, with the emphasis on building excellent relationships and instilling trust.
Advising people managers on how to effectively manage poor performance, ensuring issues are being managed in the appropriate way.
With guidance from HR Manager, lead on straightforward ER issues such as disciplinary and grievances.
Oversee the probation review process, ensuring that probation decisions are made, and outcomes communicated in a timely way.
Management of all flexible working requests (up to appeal), including monitoring of trial periods and advising on policy and procedure.
Monitoring and pro-active management of sickness absence (including referrals to Occupational Health or other providers as necessary) and implementation of the firm's sick pay policies.
Support the HR Assistant to manage the maternity, shared parental leave and adoption processes for employees.
Joiners and Leavers
Working with the HR Assistant to oversee an effective and consistent induction process for new joiners and inbound secondees.
Meet with new joiners to the firm, collating feedback and communicating to the appropriate teams as necessary.
Conduct exit interviews, collating, and communicating feedback and conduct analysis to identify trends or recommend interventions.
Secondments
Manage client and intra-office secondments, working closely alongside International Mobility team and relevant managers in the practice.
Oversee secondment policy and ancillary secondment documents, ensuring that inbound and outbound secondees have clear escalation routes while on secondment.
Recruitment
Assist the Recruitment Team with the coordination and delivery lateral and graduate recruitment processes as required.
General
Be the first point of contact for all HR issues;
Oversee monthly payroll activities, ensuring accurate and timely processes are in place.
Assist the HR Manager to co-ordinate the delivery and communications of Talent and annual compensation processes in conjunction with the Reward team.
Assist the HR Manager with the delivery of the Trainee life cycle, including onboarding, exam registration, seat moves and qualification.
Escalate risk issues promptly and openly to HR Manager, identifying the requirement for external legal (or other) advice where appropriate.
Be responsible for the creation and pro-active upkeep of the HR Belfast intranet pages, including review of policies as required.
Assist and lead (where applicable) small-scale people projects.
Working with the HR Assistant to ensure organised and well managed and maintained filing systems.
Supporting the HR Manager and practice group in preparation for and participation in audits.
Collation of employee and applicant data for NI statutory reports including the Annual Monitoring Return and Article 55.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
An extremely well organised, commercial, and intelligent HR generalist with a minimum of 2 years HR generalist and business partnering experience at adviser level.
Track record of project and stakeholder management skills; confident, with the ability to advise, influence and negotiate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Sound understanding of current employment legislation (both N.I. legislation and England & Wales).
PC literate (Microsoft Office suite).
Familiarity with Workday would be advantageous.
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