HR Advisor Business Partnering

6 days ago

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom Kennedys Full time £40,000 - £70,000 per year

Kennedys is looking for a HR Advisor to join our supportive and forward-thinking HR team in our Chelmsford or Manchester office.

As part of our HR Business Partnering team, you will provide an excellent standard of service to your allocated business divisions and play a key strategic role in supporting your stakeholders to achieve their commercial goals. You will have strong HR experience, ideally gained within a partnership environment, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You will also be well versed with key HR processes (including reward, performance and appraisals), with demonstrable experience of handling employee relations matters.

You will also support on wider HR initiatives and projects, including an ongoing HR transformation project to improve the way we work as a global HR team.

Team
The Kennedys HR team support the firm around the world with all people related matters.

The HR team is based in various locations globally across Kennedys' five regions; APAC, EMEA, US, LATAM and UK. The areas of HR that we have responsibility for are Business Partnering, Talent, Recruitment, Responsible Business, Operations, and Reward.

You will be working in a fast-paced, demanding, and global environment as we strive to make a difference for our people, clients and communities where we work.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with HR Business Partnering team to deliver high quality HR support to the firm
  • Advise on and manage employee relations matters including disciplinaries, investigations, absence management, performance management, grievance and redundancies
  • Provide support and advice on HR policies, procedures, and best practice
  • Act as a point of contact for employee queries and escalate to HR Business Partner as required
  • Support on projects within the team as well as wider HR initiatives when required.
  • Support the delivery of HR calendar activity including but not limited to; Salary review, annual headcount budgets, engagement survey, talent and performance management.

Required Experience

  • Previous HR Advisor experience, preferably within a Business Partnering team in professional services environment
  • Understanding of UK employment law with experience supporting or leading on Employee Relations issues, including but not limited to absence management, performance management, disciplinary and grievance.
  • Understanding of key HR processes, including reward, performance and appraisals
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build credibility and relationships quickly
  • Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor
  • Strong multi-tasking and time management skills
  • Strong organisational skills with a focus on high quality delivery.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

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