HR Advisor

**Role**: HR Advisor

**Location**: Cardiff

**Shift**: Monday to Friday (On-Site and Hybrid Home Working)

**Salary**: Competitive, Career Development

We have an exciting opportunity to join the HR team in a permanent role as a generalist HR Advisor, predominately based at our Memory Lane Cakes site in Cardiff, part of the Finsbury Food Group.

Our Memory Lane Cakes site is part of our Cake Division within Finsbury Food Group. They make over 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes. They employ over 850 people on site and the sites runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of Teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on Continuous improvement at all levels.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams and creating great development opportunities.

We are recruiting for a generalist HR Advisor to join our HR Team on site at our bakery. The HR Advisor will be responsible for supporting the business with all aspects of HR, such as providing advice and guidance on best practice, legislation, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Coaching Managers, Employee Engagement and People focused projects at Group Level. They will report into the HR Manager, while working closely with Site Management to embed the culture and values that are key to the business, supporting local levels of management and employees to ensure the best performance in a motivating environment.

This role offers the opportunity for Hybrid working with the ability to work c. one day a week from home. We also offer on-going training and career development.

This is a career building opportunity, offering development at site and within the larger Group HR team at Finsbury Food Group. Therefore, we are looking for someone who has drive, determination and is truly passionate about HR.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

As the HR Advisor you’ll report into the Senior HR Advisor and will be working with the HR team to implement the Company’s people strategy and companywide initiatives. You’ll manage employee relations cases which include, but not limited to; disciplinary, grievance, performance management. In addition to administration this may include coaching, providing advice, considering best practice and evaluating risk in relation to the best course of action.

You’ll support end to end recruitment, including salary benchmarking, recruitment briefs, advertising, job descriptions, person specification, interview scripts and social media recruitment campaigns. While ensuring the company applicant tracking system is accurate and maintained. You’ll also offer coaching and support to line managers in line with the company recruitment and selection policy.

You will also build line manager capability by providing coaching to the line managers ensuring they work closely with Supervisors and Team Leaders to ensure that individual performance levels are achieved ensuring consistency of approach, providing guidance and support where appropriate. You will proactively work with your business area ensuring employee absence processes are being adhered to in line with the absence management procedure, work with the OH team in managing short and long terms cases to resolution.

Involvement in HR focused projects and implementing HR strategies is a key part of this role.

You’ll have to opportunity to work cross functionally with the larger Group HR teams and other areas of the larger business.

**Ideally this is you**
- Previous experience in a similar generalist HR position in a fast-paced working environment.
- Ideally degree educated and/or a CIPD Level 5 qualification
- A sound working knowledge of UK Employment Law.
- Confident with communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
- A working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.
- Highly organised and detail oriented, with good administration skills
- Passionate about HR

**What’s in it for you**
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform
- Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products)
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral - T&C’s dependent)
- Employee Recognition Awards
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best peop