HR Advisor

Our client a leading global law firm are seeking to recruit an experienced HR Advisor , your focus will be to support the HR Manager. If you have 2 year’s HR Generalist experience this could be the next step for you?

Business partnering and day to day operations

Building relationships and an understanding of the practice group, proactively identifying ways that HR can support people and operational priorities.

Act as a trusted advisor and sounding board to people managers

Provide HR advice and expertise on a wide range of generalist issues, taking into account the operational impact of any intervention.

Support the various change management initiatives underway across the firm and work with the HR Manager to communicate any organisational change to the practice areas as appropriate.

 

Employee Relations

First point of contact providing guidance and support to people managers, ensuring that all employee issues are resolved promptly, with the emphasis on building excellent relationships and instilling trust.

Proactively identify changes and improvements to employment policies and practices.

Advising people managers on how to effectively manage poor performance, ensuring issues are being managed in the appropriate way.

With guidance from HR Manager, lead on straightforward ER issues such as disciplinary and grievances.

Oversee the probation review process, ensuring that probation decisions are made, and outcomes communicated in a timely way.

Management of all flexible working requests (up to appeal), including monitoring of trial periods and advising on policy and procedure.

Monitoring and pro-active management of sickness absence (including referrals to Occupational Health or other providers as necessary) and implementation of the firm’s sick pay policies.

Manage long term sickness cases and PHI claims where necessary.

Support the HR Assistant to manage the maternity, shared parental leave and adoption processes for employees.

 

Joiners and Leavers

Working with the HR Assistant to oversee an effective and consistent induction process for new joiners and inbound secondees.

Meet with new joiners to the firm, collating feedback and communicating to the appropriate teams as necessary.

Conduct exit interviews, collating, and communicating feedback and conduct analysis to identify trends or recommend interventions.   

Secondments

Manage client and intra-office secondments, working closely alongside International Mobility team and relevant managers in the practice.

Oversee secondment policy and ancillary secondment documents, ensuring that inbound and outbound secondees have clear escalation routes while on secondment.

Tracking all movement of employees to and from Belfast from a secondment and transfer perspective.

Recruitment

Assist the Recruitment Team with the coordination and delivery lateral and graduate recruitment processes as required.

Interview or support candidate assessment processes as necessary.

General

Be the first point of contact for all HR issues;

Oversee monthly payroll activities, ensuring accurate and timely processes are in place.

Assist the HR Manager to co-ordinate the delivery and communications of Talent and annual compensation processes in conjunction with the Reward team.

Assist the HR Manager with the delivery of the Trainee life cycle, including onboarding, exam registration, seat moves and qualification.

Escalate risk issues promptly and openly to HR Manager, identifying the requirement for external legal (or other) advice where appropriate.

Be responsible for the creation and pro-active upkeep of the HR Belfast intranet pages, including review of policies as required.

Oversee the annual practising certificate renewal of qualified fee earners.

Assist and lead (where applicable) small-scale people projects.

Working with the HR Assistant to ensure organised and well managed and maintained filing systems.

Supporting the HR Manager and practice group in preparation for and participation in audits.

Collation of employee and applicant data for NI statutory reports including the Annual Monitoring Return and Article 55.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

An extremely well organised, commercial, and intelligent HR generalist with a minimum of 2 years HR generalist and business partnering experience at adviser level.

Track record of building strong relationships with internal clients built upon sound technical knowledge and excellent interpersonal skills.

Track record of project and stakeholder management skills; confident, with the ability to advise, influence and negotiate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Proven track record of case management in relation to performance management, grievances and disciplinary matters, health, and well-being.

Sound understanding of current employment legislation (both N.I. legislation and England & Wales).

PC literate (Microsoft Office suite).

Familiarity with Workday would be advantageous.

Next Steps:
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