HR Manager

7 days ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Unite Students Full time

**The Role**

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Shared Services, the HR Manager - Shared Services leads the Employee Services Team within Unite's Corporate Shared Service Centre. The role is also accountable to the HR Director and HR leadership team.

The HR Manager - Shared Services is responsible for general employee relations, HR Admin and Payroll for c2,000 employees. You will be advocating and developing a team culture of change, positive challenge and determination to succeed, whilst highlightingthe successes, value and tangible benefits that we deliver and contribute to through proactive communication.

The HR Manager - Shared Services would also be a key member of the ongoing Unite transformation program and would lead the Employee Experience Value Stream.

**The Team**

The Employee Services team has overall responsibility for administrating all employees' records, benefits administration, accurate and timely payroll and general employee relations. The main accountabilities include:

- Employee record and contract amendments
- Processing of starters and leavers
- Pension administration included taper annual allowances
- Absence processing, tracking and monitoring
- Any other pay related changes
- Payroll processing
- Benefits administration
- Manual payroll calculations
- RTW and DBS checking
- Management of HR policies and procedures
- Employee query management
- Management and payment of all HMRC employee taxes
- Employee relations management
- Employee Expenses

The Team also provides process appreciation, training guidance and is a centre of employee knowledge and expertise for all Unite Functions, Properties and Cities.

**What You'll Be Doing**
- Managing the Team and setting objectives, which meet the needs of the Shared Services and HR teams, ensuring development of all team members
- Leading the Employee Experience value stream as part of the wider Unite transformation program
- Ensuring that employee records are accurate, up-to-date, and managed within the requirements of the Data Protection Act
- Responsible for the management of payroll processing and related deadlines and legislation
- Employee expenses
- Management of employee relations issues
- Focus on reducing the number and severity of employee related issues
- Provide support for managers to resolve employee relates issues
- Drive processing efficiency through automation
- Continuous improvement of all end to end HR and payroll processes to create a simple, frictionless employee journey including full documentation of all processes
- Owner of all policies and processes relating to HR admin, payroll and employee relations
- Provide MI to support functional and business decisions
- Develop greater audit proof control and discipline
- Clear SLA's for the Team's deliverables and query resolution
- Improvements to the collation, input and integrity of employee data to ensure an accurate payroll.
- Knowledge sharing and removing instances of single points of failure across the team
- Understanding the type of employee data we are managing and how it is used and relied on across the organization

For each of the above responsibilities, the HR Manager - Shared Services will keep the Head of Corporate Shared Services and the HR leadership team informed of progress against plans and objectives, and escalate problems if they occur.

**What We're Looking for in You**
- 3 years HR line management experience with detailed knowledge, HR policies and procedures
- Experience of HR transformation projects
- Detailed knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the legalities of employee relations
- Extensive Knowledge of payroll and expenses processing, including deadlines and legislation
- HR system experience
- Advanced Excel Skills with a good understanding of Look-ups and Pivot tables
- A self-starter who can demonstrate initiative, with the ability to prioritise workloads of self and team members
- An ability to communicate at all levels and develop excellent working relationships
- Ability to organise workload to meet agreed deadlines
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

**What You'll Get in Return**
- An annual bonus so you can share in the company's success
- 25 days' paid holiday
- Pension - based on how much you save, we'll contribute 1% more
- Flexible working opportunities
- Shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay
- Other benefits include, ShareSave, Bike to Work, Charity Match, amazing discounts and more

**About Unite Students**

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 250 business and the UK's leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home We are driven by our values, culture,and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

**Instinctive inclusion.**We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn't just what we do but who we are.

**People make Unite Students.**Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

**Room for Everyone**

We're proud to be an employer that **embraces individuality**, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong.We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a **home for success**, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what's right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for studentsthat live with us.

**We are US.

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