HR Advisor

Job Description

Summary of the role – main purpose for the existence of the role

The HR Advisor is responsible for partnering with managers and employees across all TT Games sites with a particular emphasis on employee relations and Compensation and Benefits. Providing advice, support and project managing employee relations, compliance, pay review planning and benefits renewal.

Areas of Responsibility

Compensation & Benefits
• Manage and own the UK Total Reward Statement software (vebnet), ensuring that data is kept up to date and accurate, runs the annual re-enrolment process and acts as the first point of contact for employee queries, Comp and Bens and WM Benefits team
• Ensure that the administration of all UK benefits programmes is managed effectively and manages all benefits communications to the business
• Runs the quarterly review pay review process up to 3 x per annum
• Supports HRD on TRP for annual pay and bonus review planning

Employee Relations:
• Develops and maintains a solid understanding of the various teams to be able to provide commercially-focused guidance to managers on employee relations matters including conduct, capability and grievances, flexible working and leaves of absence;
• Supports managers to run grievance and disciplinary investigations, capability hearings and PIPs, flexible working requests and so on.
• Keeps abreast of legislative and industry trends to ensure HR procedures and policies are created, updated and communicated effectively to all employees. Partners with UK Legal to ensure employment contract templates are always up to date
• Provides guidance and manages the approval process with line managers for all Flexible Working and oversees the coordination and communication of various leave entitlements requests (maternity, paternity, parental and emergency leave) ensuring that requests are responded to in a timely manner and compliant with company policy and statutory requirements. Ensures accurate records are maintained and informs payroll in a timely manner.

Health and Wellbeing
• Responsible for the full range of health and wellbeing initiatives and benefits, including exercise classes, fitness initiatives, EAP - liaising directly with WarnerMedia wellness and benefits colleagues where needed
• Organises and reviews the impact of the annual benefits fair, suggesting and implementing improvements where appropriate
• Owns the welfare and health and well-being agenda – manages all LTS and Occupational Health cases, including liaison with H&S, WM and external partners such as Unum. Highlights trends in wellbeing issues and suggests and organises proactive wellbeing solutions.
• Advising line managers on dealing with persistent short-term absence and long-term sickness cases;
• Analyses absence reports and communicates high absence levels/trends to the appropriate line managers, managing any follow up and supporting managers to effectively improve their team's attendance rates.

Participates in and takes ownership for a range of HR projects

General:
• Coaches line managers as needed throughout employee relations cases, Comp and Bens initiatives and so on
• Manages the HR side of compliance and H&S reporting systems, including reviewing the outputs of online training and liaising directly with the Facilities Manager and external suppliers as necessary
• Develops and maintains close working relationships with the business leaders, in-house employment lawyers, and UK HR colleagues to ensure an effective flow of information and sharing of ideas and best practice.
• Continuous reviews and puts forward recommendations for improvement of HR services and processes
• Departmental SAP processor - raises and GRs purchase orders in SAP for the range of HR and Resourcing services
• Works with managers to identify and meet training needs on an as required basis

Education and Work Experience:
• Educated to degree level or by experience, with part or full CIPD qualification desirable
• HR generalist with demonstrable experience of providing commercially focused guidance on a diverse range of employee relations matters including supporting disciplinary and capability hearings
• Experienced and confident in handling employee grievances, both formal and informal
• Proven experience in devising and delivering coaching at first line manager/team lead level

Skills and Abilities:
• Able to thrive in a high volume, fast pace, demanding environment
• Computer literate – Confident and experienced in HR databases (Peoplesoft or SAP preferred) and with full working knowledge of Microsoft Office to an intermediate level, particularly Excel i.e. v Lookups
• Able to develop and maintain strong working relationships with key business stakeholders
• Demonstrates sound judgement in knowing when to escalate issues to colleagues
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Confident presenter with excellent presentation and training skills
• Numerical skills and analytical with the ability to analyse data and convert into concise reports;
• Meticulous attention to detail including proofing;
• Ability to take initiative using own discretion and skills and work with limited supervision but contributes effectively to the wider HR team
• Excellent organisational and follow up skills; ability to prioritise and excellent time management essential;
• Professional, diplomatic, confident with good social skills to be able deal with all levels of staff in organisations with diverse cultures and experience of HR;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; confident communicating at all levels within the organisation;
• Patient, calm and unflappable nature and flexibility in approach to workload;
• Must be discreet, diplomatic and treat information within the department as highly confidential

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g67770-3-17-6-75-42 in your application.