HR Advisor

5 days ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom abrdn Full time

Job Description

Job Title: HR Advisor

Location: Edinburgh

Job Type: 4x permanent roles and 1x 8 month FTC available

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

The Role

The HR Services Advisor is a member of the HR Services Team and is the first point of contact for questions from colleagues and people managers. This role provides professional advice and guidance covering the full range of HR and people related policies and processes, and works collaboratively with key stakeholders in HR operations, centres of expertise and HR business partners.

Responsibilities:

Providing a high quality service across the full spectrum of HR administration, including, but not limited to employee data maintenance, leavers, benefits, absence, learning and development, pensions, international assignments, performance management, organisation and position management, redundancies and reward (data entry).Provide support to employees who are on leave from the business e.g. maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption, long term sicknessFollowing published procedures and work instructions where supplied, applying knowledge and judgement when responding to queries to achieve the appropriate resolution and colleague expectation, and where applicable, raising issues to the Team Lead or other appropriate HR team member.Providing informal coaching and training in HR administrative tasks where applicable.Administering employee lifecycle events making effective and accurate use of the Workday system to input and revise data, produce contractual and other documentation within defined quality standards and service level agreements.Provide administrative support for organisational restructuring initiatives including the production of redundancy and settlement agreements

What we're looking for:

Understanding of employment law would be desirableKnowledge of workday or relevant HR systemsDemonstrable experience of dealing with sensitive and demanding casesFirst point of contact for HR related queries around new starters, absence, global mobility cases and wider HR related policiesExcellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively and effectively within the wider teamStrong relationship building and stakeholder management skillsAbility to provide accurate and timely guidance and advice, explaining established policies and procedures as required.Knows how to effectively organise allocated work activities, work to tight deadlines and assist in the effective organisation or non-standard tasks and events.Can work independently to solve a range of problems within standard operating proceduresGood judgement, knowing when to seek guidance, escalation or authorisationAbility to analyse data and present summary information in a clear and concise format

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.

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