People Advisor

Overview

• The People Adviser will provide support to people across the organization and lead or support a variety of projects and people related activities.
• They will use strong people and administrative skills to give all employees a high level of service.

Key tasks

• To lead activity for onboarding and offboarding employees by ensuring processes are employee and manager friendly, feedback is received to help us continually improve and all queries are resolved efficiently.
• Act as a point of contact for new hires, deliver induction sessions, ensuring these are kept up to date and relevant.
• To coordinate with our relocation and immigration partner, ensuring international new hires have the appropriate visa, right to work and are supported in their relocation to the UK.
• To administer a range of company benefits, ensuring employees are enrolled within specific timescales and have the information they need, resolving queries as they arise.
• To provide support to managers and employees with a range of people processes, including grievance, disciplinary, absence management and performance management.
• To act as a point of contact for employees (both in person and via the inbox) advising on policies and processes, and signposting to other members of the People team where appropriate.
• Support with the updating and communicating of people policies where required, ensuring they are up date with current employment law and best practice.
• To be a superuser of the HR system, assisting with any contractual changes, preparing letters where required and using the information in the system to create accurate reports.
• To accurately complete payroll administration, ensuring payroll is accurate and employee queries are resolved.

Qualifications and training

• GCSE level (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths.
• Minimum CIPD Level 3 qualification (Or equivalent)
• Preferred; Post GCSE level (or equivalent) qualification in a business-related subject, such as HR, Finance or Admin.

Skills and experience

• Good communication skills (written and spoken) to effectively help employees from across the full organisation, in person, on the phone and via email.
• A desire to learn and to get involved in a range of activities to enable career development.
• Industrial experience of working within a HR / People team in a similar role.
• Excel skills with the ability to create and maintain spreadsheets.
• IT skills including using email.
• Previous experience of administering a Company payroll.
• Previous experience of administering Company benefits.
• Previous experience of working within a technology / manufacturing environment.
• Preferred; knowledge of skilled worker visas and using a Sponsor Management System