HR Generalist - London, United Kingdom - CRU

CRU

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The HR Generalist supports the delivery of the HR strategy, working closely with the wider HR team and a broad range of leaders & stakeholders across the business to provide strategic and operational advice and guidance in people policies & procedures.

The role will also provide advice and guidance to leaders and people managers on often complex employee relations issues across our global offices using knowledge of employment legislation and best practices.

Additionally, the role has accountability for day-to-day HR operations with the support of the HR Assistant

Providing advice, guidance and coaching to people managers and leaders on a wide range of people areas such as employment law compliance, employee relations, performance management, organisational changes and absence management
Coach and advise people managers and leaders to enable them to anticipate and preempt organisational challenges
Manage a broad range of employee relations matters to successful conclusion across our global offices
Be the goto person on the interpretation and implementation of people policies and procedures, suggesting new and revised policies and procedures where needed
Keeping up to date on developments in employment legislation and best practices, as well as external trends, proactively sharing best practice within the HR team and wider internal stakeholders
Using HR metrics to inform advice and guidance across people issues and challenges
Work closely with HR colleagues to support the administrative and operational needs of the team to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the entire employee lifecycle including oversight of the Company's payroll process in conjunction with the HR Assistant, Finance Team and external payroll provider
Participate in relevant HR or companywide projects and being a champion of change where needed

Essential Criteria

About You:
CIPD qualified or equivalent qualification would be advantageous
Proven and relevant generalist HR experience, ideally in a global matrix organisation
Experience of operating in a business partner model, working with people managers and leaders to create positive business outcomes
Excellent people skills, dealing with wide ranges of stakeholders
Knowledge of current HR trends and issues and using these to implement change
Full understanding of HR functions and best practices
Experience in managing HR operations, ideally across multisite or global offices
Ability to possess deep business acumen, understanding a company's challenges and how HR can help to address
Be able to navigate through ambiguity, recognising when to introduce more structure and process
Personally resilient, taking decisions at times when there are many unknowns
Proactive and solutions focussed with the ability to foster relationships across a large range of stakeholders and build credibility
Communicates challenges and influences a wide range of stakeholders effectively
Ability to present sound and wellreasoned arguments, using internal and external data, trends and metrics where relevant

**Desirable Criteria