HR Advisor

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Fastmarkets Full time

**Company Description**
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management.

Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to play a key part in supporting both the business as usual and strategic people initiatives that underpin our aim to ensure skilled people managers deliver a great employee experience.

The role will support across a range of HR processes such as employee relations, change, performance, and talent. Reporting to the CHRO, the HR Advisor will take a proactive approach to ensure matters are progressed in a timely manner, organising, communicating and ultimately helping our managers to support their people.

**PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Educate employees and managers on company policies, procedures, and best practices to promote a positive work culture and maintain legal compliance
- Gather metrics from HRIS, ATS, HR Ops to produce reports and dashboards for Heads of HR, senior managers and SLT members, giving insights based on data to drive value
- Monitor approvals in our HRIS (HiBob) to ensure key deadlines are met (e.g. payroll cutoffs)
- Conduct exit survey and interviews of all leavers and provide regular insights to the team
- Support managers in developing their talent packs including succession plans, development plans and identifying training needs
- Identify potential risks and liabilities related to employee relations matters and work proactively to mitigate them
- Assist across a range of employee relations matters, including conflict resolution, disciplinary actions, grievances
- Work with managers to design, implement, monitor and where necessary, escalate performance improvement plans (PIP’s)
- Organise employee relations cases and change projects, drafting correspondence and organising evidence and consultation documents
- Supporting on project activity as appropriate (e.g. onboarding, alignment of people policies, employee surveys, D&I etc..)
- Assist in organisational changes, redundancy processes, change and implementation planning.
- Awareness of risks and legal limitations in HR processes, able to advise and support managers
- Coach/support junior people managers on how to drive the effectiveness and the performance of their people
- Role modelling positive ways of working and contributing to the development and evolution of the People Plan
- Support our Learning and Development team to deliver training programs and workshops for managers and employees on topics related to conflict resolution, communication skills, and employee relations best practices
- Build and maintain a library of templates and materials to support HR and change processes

**KEY INTERFACES**
- Head of HR
- HR Operations team
- Payroll Specialist
- People managers and leaders across Fastmarkets

**Qualifications**
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

**KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS**

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Key experience required in this position:

- Human resources experience, with a focus on supporting employee relations processes.
- Experience working in a fast paced, changing environment.
- An understanding of employment law, regulations, and best practices in the UK
- An understanding of international HR practices is desirable but not essential.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport and effectively resolve conflicts.
- A positive, collaborative and customer focused attitude
- Ability to handle sensitive employee matters with confidentiality and professionalism.
- Understanding of key HR metrics, ability to produce reports (HRIS, Excel)
- Experience using HR Information Systems (HRIS),
- Ability to work methodically through work as well as show initiative


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