HR Adviser

**Location**:
**Location**:
Manchester

**Type**:
**Type**:
CONTRACT

We help our people discover their power.
- Our People Team make it their mission to provide unique opportunities for our people to grow and develop, creating a positive environment and culture at DCC.

**Together we're building a greener tomorrow**:

- Connecting every home and business to a single, secure smart meter network is a huge undertaking. So you can imagine the scale - and variety - and opportunities for the people who'll help us do it.**About the DCC**

At the Data Communications Company, we believe in making Britain more connected, so we can all lead smarter, greener lives. We’ve built the secure infrastructure that’s supporting the mass roll-out of smart meters across the country. Our universal, secure network will be in 30 million homes and small businesses, making it the largest network in Britain. So it’s a truly exciting time to join us. You’ll be part of a team that’s supporting the country’s transition to a low-carbon economy, and helping to ensure an affordable, secure, and sustainable energy supply for the future.

**The Role**

Reporting to a HR Business Partner this role will coordinate and be involved in a range of HR activities including processes, approvals and communication to the business. This will include advising line managers on aspects of HR and day to day needs.

Working with the Centres of Excellence to update and cascade messaging you will also be heavily involved in supporting with line manager queries and education, particularly around Workday and various other systems.

Guiding, enabling and being a trusted point of contact in the People team this role will form a firm foundation for the business as a first point of contact for advise on a range of topics.

**What you'll be doing**
- Dealing with various HR queries throughout the business, supporting and capturing areas for improvement, managing expectations well
- Drive a self serve model by capturing queries and creating a knowledge base
- Handling HR matters reliably and in accordance with legal requirements
- Supporting the ER manager when needed with some ER activity which may include grievance and disciplinary.
- Assisting with some of the recruitment processes, internally and externally.
- Driving the business performance by creating a continuous improvement methodology in the people function.
- Supporting the Business partners in their role by understanding the challenges and seeking to offer solutions.
- Able to provide data and analysis of the key HR metrics to support the BP’s.
- Provide regular data packs for the business and be able to analyse the data to provide good insight and focus areas.

**What we're looking for**
- Organisational and administrative skills
- Experience in an HR environment
- Advising and working with senior leaders
- IT programmes and HR systems preferably Workday
- Strong aptitude in excel (pivot tables, advanced formatting), powerpoint and reporting
- Personable with strong communication and relationship building capabilities across all levels of the business
- Driven and determined
- CIPD level 5 qualified
- Practical and logical; able to solve problems quickly
- Able to offer sound advice in a confident and timely manner
- Strong interpersonal skills and a good team player
- Able to influence confidently
- Resilient and up for the challenge of a very fast paced environment

**Skills and Experience Desirable**
- Excellent level of Workday knowledge and understanding
- Experience of data presentation such as Power BI or similar
- Proven previous capability within a HR team

**What's in it for you?**

Become part of our team at DCC and you’ll find an inclusive culture which prizes mutual respect, innovation and high performance. It all adds up to make DCC a great place to work. Hard work deserves great benefits, and we offer our colleagues a range of reasons to enjoy their time at DCC:

- Bonus scheme
- Pension
- Private medical insurance.
- Extensive personal development and training opportunities
- Hybrid working - Many of our people work 1 to 3 days in the office..
- Flexible holidays - increase your standard 25 days by purchasing extra days.
- Dental plan.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Headspace free membership - a popular mindfulness app.
- Season ticket travel loan
- Charity days
- Retail discounts.
- Discounted gym membership
- RAC discount
- Income protection scheme

**Next Steps**

**Capita Opportunity Statement**
- The parent company, Capita Plc*, are a leading UK provider of technology enabled business services. We’re supporting and improving the lives of millions of people every day and we can only do this with the right people in place, working towards a shared goal. We encourage an open, honest working environment where everyone can be true to themselves and people are valued for their differences. We’re always challenging each other to learn and improve, because w