Hr Advisor

Our client a expending Accountancy firm with offices in the Northwest of England. We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join the team. this role is looking after approx 350 Stakeholders in multisector areas. This role is building relationships with your clients where your efforts are rewarded. You will also get involved in Projects which makes the role really varied.

Core Duties will include the following:

• Partner Support and Line Management Development: providing support and guidance to key stakeholders, department heads and line managers to help them manage their areas of responsibility and its on-going development
• Compensation and Benefits: Supporting the business with the annual bonus and salary review processes for your area of responsibility but utilising market data and by providing guidance/support to line managers, budget holders and regional leads
• Employee Relations: Providing expert advice and guidance to partners and mangers on a host of employee relations activities including simple and complex capability (performance/qualification), disciplinary and grievances ensuring that legal requirements are met, that risks are appropriately managed and commercially sound. You will also undertake investigations in relation to grievances, disciplinaries and capability matters, or will attend such meetings where appropriate
• Wellbeing and absence support: you will be trained to become a wellbeing ambassador. Providing advice and support to line managers and members of staff in relation to mental health and other absence issues. You will be involved in complex occupational health/potential PHI cases
• Performance and development: responsibility for attending and managing appraisal moderation meetings for your areas of the business, ensuring that performance grading distribution is fair and appropriate. You will also provide advice to line managers in relation to giving constructive feedback, coaching, and setting appropriate objectives
• Policies and Procedures: providing advice to the business on the application of all policies and procedures, and involvement in amending/updating our policies where appropriate
• Lifecycle activities: Conducting exit interviews for more senior roles, or in contentious situations, as and when required. Providing guidance to individuals, partners and line managers regarding maternity, paternity, parental and shared parental leave. Promoting the use of share parental leave amongst all employees
• Data Analysis: Reviewing, interpretating and analysing people related data to support and improve your area of responsibility, the wider service line and business
• Reporting: making full use of the HR systems to deliver regular reporting to the business in relation to holiday usage, retention, exit interview feedback/trends, absence trends, etc
• Projects: involvement in national HR projects as appropriate. To lead or take part in local projects as appropriate

Ideal Candidates must have the following skills and Experience:

• Multiple years experience of working at People Advisor level in a generalist role (essential)
• Significant experience in performance management/capability processes (essential)
• Experience of investigating disciplinary and grievance cases; conducting redundancy and general consultations (essential)
• Experience of working independently from line manager (essential)
• Ability to liaise with and manage stakeholders at all levels (essential)
• Experience of completing salary review process (preferable)
• Experience of professional or financial services environment (preferable)
• Ability to review, interpret and analyse data
• Experience of working in a multi-sited environment/role (preferable)
• CIPD qualified or working towards qualification (preferable)
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent client service skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Excellent Microsoft office skills
• Passionate about HR