Address Reporting to
Senior HR Manager
Department
Human Resources, Grosvenor Family Office & Rural Estates
Primary location
Eaton Estate, Chester
Other locations
Occasional travel to other Grosvenor estates and London office
Main purpose of role
The HR Officer role is to support the HR Team to deliver the people agenda, ensuring all HR operational processes are proactively and efficiently delivered.
Key responsibilities
- Assisting with all aspects of the recruitment process, advertising vacancies, liaising with recruiters, tracking the process, arranging and supporting managers on interviews where necessary.
- Manage all aspects of the onboarding of new employees, including sending new starter paperwork, carrying out pre-employment checking, and tracking completion of all actions.
- Assisting with administration for payroll as needed.
- Working closely with the HR Managers and PA to ensure that employees have the correct pay and benefits at all times.
- Acting as the first point of contact for employee queries on policies, procedures and general HR data and information.
- Supporting the HR Managers on employee relations matters, such as attendance, capability, disciplinary and grievance.
- Supporting HR Managers on HR project work.
- Supporting HR Managers on collating data and producing ad hoc reports as and when required.
- Recording and processing confidential information for HR Managers.
- Preparing all letters and documents for HR Managers.
- Responsibility for maintaining all data within our HRIS (Workday) in an accurate and timely manner.
- Managing the HR digital filing system via Sharepoint, and ensuring that it is efficiently organised and up to date.
- Any other role specific responsibilities
All Grosvenor employees must also demonstrate the following responsibilities:
- To continuously develop and improve
- To comply with company policy and best practise in security, legal and regulatory compliance
- To carry out duties, within the relevant legislation at all times and be familiar with the terms of all current legislation relevant to the role
- To ensure H&S responsibilities are fulfilled, including:
- To have responsibility for personal safety and the safety of others
- To ensure that all H&S responsibilities are fulfilled and that safety and welfare is maintained
- Plan enough time for work to be done in a healthy and safe way
- To assume delegated authority to take aversive/proactive action where appropriate to prevent a potential situation escalating to an accident or health and safety failure
- To complete any other duties as required from time to time
Essential skills and attributes:
- Qualifications
- Ideally CIPD L5 qualified or working towards this qualification, or equivalent, or qualified through experience (minimum 3 years)
- Experience
- Prior experience working within a busy, generalist HR department is essential
- Good understanding and ability with using various HRIS, in particular Workday, is advantageous
- Able to demonstrate a good level of understanding of HR processes
- Able to demonstrate a basic level of understanding of Employment Law
- Prior experience of assisting with a payroll would be desirable
- Skills
- Proficient and confident with Microsoft applications, in particular Excel
- Able to demonstrate a good aptitude for numbers
- Professional, discrete and confidential at all times
- Reliable and with a strong work ethic
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Personal resilience and the capacity to work effectively and stay calm under pressure
- Must be able to prioritise and organise own workload with attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate customer care skills
- Good team working skills
All employees must uphold the shared values of Grosvenor:
- Integrity, be honest, fair and open
- Trust, be loyal, reliable and deliver on commitments
- Respect, be inclusive, straightforward, collaborative, caring and thoughtful
Additional information
- A full driving licence will be needed due to the requirement to travel around the Eaton Estate and to other local Grosvenor Family Office locations as needed
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