Senior HR Advisor

Job Description:

King makes great games that offer fun, bite-size entertainment experiences for everyone to enjoy and it's no surprise that creating a fun and friendly employee experience is at the heart of our values and culture.

If you're ready to champion our values and make a meaningful impact on the employee journey, we’d love to hear from you We’re seeking an experienced Senior HR Advisor to join our Kingdom in London. In this key role, you’ll contribute to shaping and upholding our culture while delivering an exceptional employee experience across every stage of the employee lifecycle.

Reporting to the Senior People Director, you’ll support People Partners across multiple business areas, acting as a trusted advisor. You’ll collaborate with Employee Experience Specialists and HR Advisors across our global locations to deliver effective, people-centric solutions and independently provide pragmatic guidance to stakeholders on HR policies, processes, and practices to ensure we provide the best employee experience possible.

You'll lead on data reporting and analysis, talent and performance processes, and engagement action plans. You will also resolve manager and employee policy queries linked to core HR processes, absence, probation, performance management, and much more.

To thrive in the role, you will have exceptional organizational skills, coupled with the ability to manage multiple priorities. You will have strong data management and process implementation skills and be passionate about providing a great employee experience to our Kingsters. With excellent interpersonal skills, you will build trust with employees and stakeholders, and you will love providing solutions to their everyday challenges, driving process improvements which add value to both our employees and simplify our ways of working.

Your role in the Kingdom:

• Provide expert advice on HR policies, processes, and local requirements, resolving queries on topics such as performance management, employee relations, rewards, absence, probation, and more.
• Guide managers on areas like disciplinaries, grievances, sickness, and parental leave, ensuring compliance with UK employment laws.
• Maintain awareness of UK employment laws and take an active role in updating local policies, educating managers, and working with peers in HR and legal to update our intranet pages as needed.
• Own and manage HR data for your function(s), delivering insights and metrics (e.g., turnover, retention, compensation) to inform decisions.
• Maintain employee data in Workday and personal files, identifying opportunities to improve data management practices and ways of working with our global Employee Experience team.
• Champion our values and culture by supporting training programs around local and companywide Performance Management and talent frameworks, DE&I strategies, ethical laws, standards, and policies.
• Support managers in creating a seamless onboarding experience for new Kingsters, creating a positive 90-day experience and setting them up for success.
• Support Employee Engagement initiatives by coordinating initiatives, running focus groups, and managing feedback action plans.
• Conduct exit interviews as applicable, ensuring learning from these are captured and fed back into both people and business plans.
• Support HR initiatives, projects, events, community days, and other King initiatives, including the development of project plans and supporting local and functional projects to help improve our employee experience.
• Provide comprehensive HR administrative support, including managing and ensuring that personnel files are up to date, creating employee certificate/offboarding documentation, and liaising with payroll teams as applicable.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex HR activities and support Employee Experience Specialists.
• Be the champion for HR process excellence and apply best practices where operational improvement is needed, helping to implement change on a local and global level.
• Maintain strict confidentiality, manage, and escalate complaints/sensitive people-related cases to relevant People Partners.

Skills to create thrills:

• HR experience gained in a HR Advisory role, with hands-on experience of managing end-to-end HR people processes. You will be professional, credible, and responsive.
• Strong advisory skills with practical knowledge and experience of applying UK employment law.
• Experience of interpreting and applying HR policies and procedures with the ability to identify potential ER issues.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational, and excellent time management skills.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, collaborating effectively, and driving initiatives to completion.
• Strong experience of data analysis, management, pulling insights and recommendations from this.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders, employees, and HR peers to ensure effective collaboration and relationships.
• Sound judgement and decision-making, with the ability to identify and resolve problems, provide solutions, and take necessary actions to prevent them from developing in the future.
• Appreciation and understanding of the need for confidentiality and discretion in dealing with any people-related activities.
• Great listening skills, being objective, fair, and offering advice and feedback ensuring the employee experience continuously lives up to our culture and values.
• Professional, credible, and responsive.
• Excellent IT skills – particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Business fluent written and verbal English.

Bonus skills:

• Experience of using HR systems such as Workday.
• Experience with using case management systems.
• Good level of all Microsoft packages including Excel and PowerPoint. Can gather internal HR metrics and present them in a useful way.
• Experience supporting the facilitation (and training) of HR processes spanning across: Performance Management, Engagement, Talent, DE&I and other people processes is an advantage.
• Other languages, we are a global team.

About King:

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies; we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue, and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes:

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful:

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
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