Hr Assistant

Job Description

The role of HR Assistant in AFRY involves providing generalist HR, pay and benefits administration support to all employees, contributing to the day-to-day running of the HR team.

In more detail the job involves providing support and assistance with new starters. This includes issuing offer letters and contracts, facilitating outsourced referencing process, ensuring new colleagues have right to work permission, conducting HR inductions, adding new colleagues to our HR and payroll systems and ensuring that all associated benefits processes are completed.

You will administer outsourced payroll for groups of colleagues accurately and to deadlines including inputting all pay and detail changes as well as checking reports. A proactive approach to question and check details is essential. Integral to the role is ensuring data quality in various people related systems.

The role manages the administrative processes related to benefits on a business as usual basis as well as for annual renewal: including ordering Childcare Vouchers, managing the Cycle to Work scheme, Electric Vehicle Scheme, ensure salary sacrifice arrangements are managed, liaise with providers for Private Medical Insurance (PMI) and Dental insurance benefits, pension changes and ensuring all employee queries are answered accurately and timely.

You will be the first point of contact for groups of colleague queries regarding HR Administration and payroll and be confident to escalate queries within the HR team as needed. The HR team for the UK and Ireland is made up of two HR Assistant roles including this one, an HR Manager, HR Business Partner and Head of HR, with support from global teams on Resourcing, HR Systems, Reward and Development.

Qualifications

You will be part of a small team where you be responsible for HR activities from day one. You will be thorough, with an eye for detail, spotting inconsistencies and tenacious to hunt down answers and confident to ask questions where are you not sure of something.

You will have great Microsoft Office skills, including Teams and Excel and be data aware as well as able to learn and use our internal systems.

You will need excellent communication and people skills, and an ability to build good working relationships with employees at all levels.

Fluent written and spoken English is essential.

It is desirable but not essential that you have one years' experience in an HR role however solid administration experience is a must.

We offer a great working environment, competitive salary and an excellent range of benefits, including 25 days holiday each year rising to 30 with continued service, private medical and dental insurances, income protection, life assurance, and a body and mind allowance as well as pension scheme.

The role is based in Oxford city centre and a minimum of 2 days per week are to be worked in the office to collaborate and learn from the team with the rest of the week working from home.

We also offer good career development with the opportunity to support CIPD qualification after successful completion of probation. We would love to hear from candidates who are returning to work after a career break or looking for flexible working.

Company Description

AFRY is an international engineering, design and advisory company. We support our clients to progress in sustainability and digitalisation.

We are 19,000 devoted experts globally, within the fields of infrastructure, industry and energy, operating across the world to create sustainable solutions for future generations.

AFRY in the UK and Ireland has 300 employees across 8 locations. Our head office is in Sweden.

Additional Information

This role has become available as a result of recent changes within the HR team as well as our growth. As part of your online application process, please provide a covering letter stating why you want to work for AFRY, your salary expectations and a copy of your CV (no hard copy applications).

At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.