- Manage all core areas: payroll, employee relations, admin, learning and development, internal recruitment, employee engagement, and HR systems.
- Provide advice and direction to the team on work priorities, staff resources, policy, organisation, and staff management issues.
- Ensure compliance with current regulations, including professional standards, policies, procedures, and legislation (e.g., data protection, Equality Act, health and safety).
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including job postings, screening, interviewing and onboarding
- Collaborate with department heads to understand staffing needs and requirements
- Maintain recruitment records and ensure compliance with employment laws
- Collate payroll data for four legal entities for review and submission to payroll provider and internal board
- Maintain payroll records and ensure compliance with statutory requirements
- Liaise with finance and accounting departments to reconcile payroll accounts
- Address payroll related queries and issues from employees
- Manage the implementation of employment policies.
- Ensure employment law, policy, best practices, and workforce development are applied.
- Oversee the onboarding process to expedite the settling-in period.
- Ensure the offboarding process is handled professionally to ensure fair treatment.
- Updating systems and spreadsheets with all HR org changes
- Support with the annual salary review roll out
- Ensure department actions, relating to ISO compliance are adhered to
- Ensure the business is up to date in terms of respect of workplace, sexual harassment and legislative changes
- Ensure adherence to HR ISO KPIs, Data Protection and legislative changes
- Experience of working in a standalone Human Resources role.
- Extensive experience in Human Resource function within an SME environment
- Experience of managing the entire Employee Life Cycle process is essential.
- Payroll experience is essential.
- Experience of working with a business with multiple entities/sites would be beneficial but not essential.
- CIPD, ideally level 5 (or equivalent experience within Human Resources)
- Experience would be within the private sector would be ideal
- Experience within an HR function supporting writing policies, contracts and other HR related documents is essential.
- Strong communication, attention to detail, analytical and numerical skills.
- Exposure to managing ER related tasks i.e. disciplinaries, grievances etc
- Excellent computer skills including Word / Excel / PowerPoint