HR Administrator

**Location**:Sedgefield**:
**Reporting to**: Head of HR

**Overview**

The HR Administrator will be responsible for providing a comprehensive administrative support to the HR department, assisting with all day-to-day HR related tasks to include maintaining accurate employee records, preparing HR reports and documentation, and ensuring queries are dealt with in a timely, professional manner.

**Summary of responsibilities**:

- Supporting the HR team with day-to-day administration tasks
- Upload/ updating HR documentation onto HRIS in a timely and accurate manner
- Maintain accurate employee records and ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
- Supporting with recruitment activity & on-boarding checks as required
- Responding to and resolving queries
- Preparing and issuing HR documents
- Safeguard employee data through compliance with GDPR
- Review and process all New Starter information, ensuring forms are completed correctly and liaise with Payroll to provide required information
- Manage the probationary period process
- Conduct monthly reviews of absences to analyse patterns / trends
- Update the HRIS with company information as and when required
- Monitor the HR / Careers inbox
- Update Sage People with any employment changes
- Co-ordinate social events
- General administration duties to include scanning / photocopying documents, creating and issuing letters, producing HR reports, filing and taking minutes of meetings where required
- First point of contact for all HR queries within the department and telephone calls
- Assist with the coordination of recruitment activities including job postings, resume screening, and interview scheduling
- Create & issue letters of offer and contracts of employment for new employees
- Liaise with IT with regards to set up & requirements for new employees;
- Process references for all new employees
- Issue acknowledgement of resignation letters
- Liaise with IT with regards to exit & returning of IT equipment
- Organise training events
- Liaison with third party suppliers re insurance, benefits administration
- Compiling pay review letters
- Any other reasonable ad hoc duties

**Skills**, **attributes and experience**
- Excellent organisation skills.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Attention to detail.
- Good administrative skills.
- Experience of working in an HR department/similar admin role
- Professional and courteous
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment & to prioritise workload
- Personable, professional and friendly; you will be an ambassador of the HR service to within the company