HR Administrator

**Location**: head office, Newbury

**Hours**: 35 hours per week. Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm

**Starting salary**:£21,945

**Target salary**:£23,100

**Interviews**:We aim to interview successful applicants within 1 week. Interviews will comprise a 90 minute competency-based process held in our head office based in Newbury. Feedback provided regardless of outcome. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point.

If you are well organised, plan and prioritise well, and relish the opportunity to work independently with the support of a collaborative HR Team where no two days bring the same challenge, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

**What you will be doing?**:
Reporting to the HR Admin Partner, you will deliver a credible and trusted HR operations service. You will positively contribute to our customer focussed culture by delivering good employee experience outcomes. We are rightly proud of our people proposition, with a progressive and modern agenda to support, develop and care for employees. The responsibilities of this role include:

- Deliver a credible, accurate and reliable monthly payroll process by accurately processing employee data.
- Support a positive employee experience by ensuring our policies and procedures are enacted fairly and accurately.
- Support a customer first, inclusive recruitment and onboarding experience that enhances and protects our employer brand.
- Maintain accurate, compliant records and procedures to support our regulatory and statutory requirements.
- Understand the risk and controls within your business area and your responsibilities under the Risk Management Framework.

**Essential skills and experience**:

- Proven experience of working with internal and/or external customers to ensure the highest quality service experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and able to use judgement to manage complex scenarios.
- Strong communication skills with a variety of stakeholders.
- Able to process numeric data accurately.
- Evidence of excellent written communication skills.
- Competent in the use of Microsoft packages (Word, Excel and Office365), with a willingness to learn further Excel and data skills.
- Ability to understand new systems and their functionality.
- Confident in working with confidential and sensitive information.

**Desirable skills and experience**:

- Experience of HR or payroll administration.
- CIPD Level 3 qualification.

**Why work for Newbury Building Society?**:

- **We care about our communities** - as well as providing financial services, we get involved in supporting local charities and people. This means regular opportunities to volunteer, fundraise, and help with community events and activities. All employees also receive two paid days of volunteering every year to help causes they feel passionately about.
- **We want to help you develop** - we are accredited by the Financial Services National College for the quality of our learning and development practices. No matter your role, there will be opportunities to take on new responsibilities and be involved in projects to further your career.
- **We want to look after and reward you** - you will receive a generous holiday allowance, contributory stakeholder pension scheme, access to wellbeing programmes, and your birthday off.
- _The salary offered is dependent on evidence of key competencies and skills you currently have. Newbury Building Society pride themselves on recruiting for potential so if you do not meet all of the criteria in terms of knowledge, experience and skills, you will benefit from learning and development opportunities to enable you to work towards the top of the salary range. This will be via ongoing feedback from your line manager and assessment of your progression against all the criteria_