HR Advisor (maternity cover)

Career Opportunity: HR Advisor (Maternity Cover)

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. We want our people to succeed both in work and life and to support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance and offer hybrid working arrangements.

An opportunity has arisen for an HR Advisor (Maternity Cover) to join our busy HR and Training Team on a contract basis for 9 12 months. As an HR Advisor you will be working in a generalist role to work with the Senior HR Manager at our head office based in Ipswich.

Duties will include:

• Supporting the Senior HR Manager with HR related matters in line with current employment law legislation and, company policies and procedures.
• Providing support for people related issues such as disciplinary investigations, grievances, probation, and performance management.
• Acting as a HR representative in meetings including investigation, disciplinary, grievance, welfare, and performance reviews.
• Absence management reporting and analysis.
• Analyse HR data (exit interviews, absence, turnover, benefits, surveys etc) to identify any trends and provide robust solutions to deal with any issues.
• Administration of holiday system.
• Updating payroll records, ensuring that updates are made in a timely manner in line with deadlines.
• Managing & maintaining data on HR systems and production of reports as required.
• Keeping our benefits platform up to date with changes.
• Processing new starters & leavers, issuing leaver information and collating exit interview trends.
• Reviewing existing HR templates and letters for compliance.

Are you the person we are looking for?

You will need to hold a CIPD qualification to minimum level 3 and have previous experience in an HR Advisor Generalist role.

You will have the ability to react quickly to changes to workload and priority and have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage with all levels of the business. We are looking for someone with an approachable and fair manner who can present findings logically to enable informed decisions to be made whilst maintaining confidentiality at all times.

A sound knowledge of Word, and Microsoft office is essential, as is prior experience working with analytics and proficiency in excel.

We also offer some fantastic perks!

We don t just offer a great place to work with a family feel atmosphere, we also offer:

• Life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
• Company pension scheme (we match up to 8%)
• Hybrid working (2 days at home and 3 days office after initial training period)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday!)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program
• Employee platform benefits
• Free on-site parking
• Open plan, bright modern office
• Company social events
• Regular fun days and charity events hosted in the office
• A supportive business who wants to help you progress in your career

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We also place high importance on our inclusive recruitment policy and will do our very best to support those applicants who may need adjustments to take part in the recruitment process. Please do let us know if you require any additional assistance or adjustments on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within two weeks, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.