HR Officer

My client is a leading firm of Chartered Accountants based in London and the Home Counties. They are placed in the UK market as a top 40 accountancy firm, one of the top accountancy firms for private clients and as a top financial planning company. Very welcoming, they are a forward-thinking firm with their clients’ vision at the centre of everything they do.

Reporting to the HR Manager you will be a self-motivated, hands-on, flexible, and professional individual able to provide HR expertise to both fee-earning and support functions. You ideally will have some experience of working within a similar environment, ideally Professional Services, as a consultative method of decision making is required within a strong organisational culture.

**Role: HR Officer**

**Location: St Albans with fully expensed travel to other offices**

**Hybrid working 3 days in office and 2 from home with flexible working hours**

**Salary: £25,000 - £30,000**

**Main function of job**

To provide HR expertise and become a credibly trusted advisor to both fee-earning and support functions, including Audit, Tax, Trusts, Financial Services, Marketing, IT and Maintenance.

**Main dutie**
- Recruitment of employees (mainly admin/support level and more recently qualified professional employees), including putting job specifications/adverts together, considering appropriate recruitment methods and loading them successfully onto our recruitment portal
- Relationship-building with key recruitment agencies, negotiating fees/terms etc.
- Reporting daily on all activity to the Head of HR, including updating the employees situation report on a regular basis
- Assisting with graduate trainee/apprentice recruitment. This role will help ensure that all the assessment days are coordinated properly, creating shortlists and meaningful reports. Carrying out telephone interviews and being involved with the assessment days. Understanding the routes to qualification and requirements of the training programmes
- Dealing sensitively with Employee Relations issues, including managing all requests for maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and flexible working
- Becoming a super-user on our HR system (People HR) and being fundamental in implementing new functionalities
- Carrying out employees’ inductions
- Conducting exit Interviews and providing feedback to the Head of HR
- Liaising with inside careers, professional bodies & advertising contacts
- Ensuring the website, intranet & Facebook are kept up to date (e.g. policies, vacancies and announcements)
- Provide employees figures to various departments and Partners on request e.g. for annual returns and marketing
- Assisting with employees’ events
- Overseeing charity events and activities across the four offices which are coordinated by the elected charities champions.
You will be responsible for some of the administration arising because of the above activities. However, they do have a departmental administrator who is responsible for a lot of the administration.

**Skills and experience required**
- Ideally CIPD Qualified (Associate Level or equivalent) or working towards completion of qualification
- Minimum of 2 to 3 years HR Officer/Advisor experience gained within a similar environment. They have an experienced HR Officer in the team too and this role is anticipated to be with someone less experienced by way of a development opportunity
- Must be keen to take on responsibility and ownership within the officer role, and to have demonstrated this in previous roles either inside work or in his/her personal life
- Confident and assured in delivery when dealing with all levels of people - sound employment law knowledge when giving advice to maintain departmental credibility
- Self-motivating (used to a professional services/ partnership environment
- Positive outlook
- People-centric whilst remaining commercially
- Customer-service ethic
**Software used**

MS Suite software, Outlook, PeopleHR, Teams and Zoom

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Flexitime
- Work from home
Schedule:

- Monday to Friday