Senior HR Advisor

We now have an opening for a Senior HR Advisor to join our Human Resources team based in Cwmbran. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting all people matters arising throughout the employee life cycle. You will advise, guide and coach managers on HR best practice, ensuring consistency in the application

of the people policies across the business. You will be the first point of contact in all people related issues.

Responsibilities & Duties;

Develop effective and strong relationships with managers at all levels to promote

good employee relations, coaching where needed to encourage early intervention to prevent escalation where possible

Advise and support on the management of formal people processes, attending formal meetings and ensuring accurate records are taken and providing advice on process where necessary

Lead on Absence Management across the business, proactively liaising with

managers to ensure absence issues are addressed in a consistent way, through

coaching, advising and supporting managers

Responsible for advising on occupational sick pay entitlements, liaising with payroll to ensure timely communication with employees of changes in pay whilst absent

To be the main point of contact with the Occupational Health provider

Responsible for making referrals where necessary and ensuring the medical reports are informative to the business

Responsible for provision of agreed MI across the business, including data analysis and insight

To attend departmental management meetings to review and discuss workforce

planning, people related issues and MI reports

To review and assist in improving HR processes to provide a first class HR service

To contribute and lead on HR projects as agreed

Support and engage in company initiatives, including, Continuous and Process

Improvements, etc

Take personal responsibility on keeping abreast of employment law and HR best

practice

CIPD or equivalent HR qualification

Demonstrable experience of dealing with a broad range and high volume of HR issues as a HR generalist

Working knowledge of HR processes and systems

Experience of working with HR Systems such as ADP / SAP / Success Factors and ability to extract information

Demonstrable strong interpersonal skills and able to build strong effective working

relationships at all levels

Competent user of MS Office applications (including intermediary level Excel and Word)

Excellent organisational skills; demonstrable ability to multi task whilst still meeting deadlines

Performing tasks in a process-orientated way in order to fulfil expectations

Take initiative in order to achieve objectives

Pragmatic and analytical with a solution focus attitude