Hr Advisor

Kennedys is looking for a HR Advisor to join our supportive and forward-thinking HR team in our Chelmsford, London or Manchester office on a hybrid basis.

As part of our HR Business Partnering team, you will provide an excellent standard of service to your allocated business divisions and play a key strategic role in supporting your stakeholders to achieve their commercial goals. You will have strong HR experience, ideally gained within a partnership environment, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You will also be well versed with key HR processes (including reward, performance and appraisals), with demonstrable experience of handling employee relations matters.

You will also support on wider HR initiatives and projects, including an ongoing HR transformation project to improve the way we work as a global HR team.

Team

Kennedys HR team support the firm around the world with all people related matters.

The HR team is based in Chelmsford, London and Manchester for the UK, Dublin for EMEA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia for APAC, Basking Ridge for US and London/LATAM for LATAM. The areas of HR that we have responsibility for are Business Partnering, Recruitment (including partners and early careers), Reward, HR Systems and Analytics, Learning and Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity and Inclusion. The HR function is also responsible for the Secretarial function in the UK, Singapore and Thailand.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with HR Business Partnering team to deliver high quality HR support to the firm
• Provide support and advice on HR policies, procedures, and best practice
• Advise on and manage employee relations matters including disciplinaries, investigations, absence management, performance management, grievance and redundancies
• Act as a point of contact for employee queries and escalate to HR Business Partner as required
• Support on projects within the team as well as wider HR initiatives when required
• Work in conjunction with the wider HR team globally to ensure best practice
• Develop an understanding in the area of the business to ensure optimum support
• Support the HR business partnering team in the delivery of HR calendar activities
• Monitor key employee metrics and data, and share trends with team

Required experience

• Previous HR Advisor experience, preferably within a Business Partnering team
• Understanding of key HR processes, including reward, performance and appraisals
• Understanding of UK employment law with experience supporting or leading on Employee Relations issues, including but not limited to absence management, performance management, disciplinary and grievance.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build credibility and relationships quickly
• Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor
• Strong multi-tasking and time management skills
• Strong organisational skills with a focus on high quality delivery

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.