Senior Assistant, HR Advisory Service, 12 month FTC

Are you looking for the next exciting career opportunity? Do you have a passion for delivering a high quality service and an exceptional customer experience? Do you want to work in a supportive team where you are valued for the diversity that you bring and your ideas are encouraged? If so, this could be the role for you. HR Services are looking for a Senior Assistant to join our HR Advisory Service. The primary function of the role is to provide professional advice and support on performance, conduct and sickness matters. The team works closely with a wide range SME colleagues from the internal HR community to deliver a coordinated service to the business.

You thrive being a team player, sharing knowledge, experience and ideas and enjoy collaborating with peers, the wider HR community, and the business to find the best fit solutions.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients’ become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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Providing day to day HR advisory support to employees, people leaders and partners across Deloitte UK on an allocated case load which will include but is not limited to:

• Supporting the business with the performance management process up to and including dismissal.

• Advising on informal disciplinary and grievance processes and escalating to T1 Advisors or Employee Relations where appropriate.

• Authenticate and support AWOL cases, conduct exit interviews and support the exam fail and short-term sickness capability process.

• Manage security and data breaches and progress through the disciplinary process as appropriate.

• Support connection and collaboration within the HR Advisory team

• Providing timely and effective handover, where appropriate, of cases that require input or completion by the wider HR community.

• Ensuring all SAP related actions or updates are completed accurately in time for payroll deadlines and in line with procedural guidelines.

• Ensuring effective utilisation of case management tools, keeping all records up to date and accurate and tracking activities through to timely closure.

• Ensuring compliance with appropriate Data Protection legislation at all times.

• Proven ability to guide and advise on performance and conduct matters from providing initial advice through to dismissal by providing end to end case management support. Providing counsel to the business on policy interpretation, employment law considerations, and risk mitigation strategies, producing and reviewing case documentation where required.

• Demonstrated expertise in managing a high volume of cases, ensuring timely resolution while mitigating risk and considering both legal and commercial implications, escalating when appropriate to the management team or HR SME colleague.

• Maintain a professional and positive attitude, with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Effectively influencing and persuading others and articulating thoughts and ideas in a composed manner to instil confidence in others.

• Actively identify opportunities to streamline processes and enhance efficiency, participate in efforts to support and embed change across HR Services and the wider HR function as well as engaging with continuous service improvements.

• Demonstrate commercial awareness & risk management which includes an understanding of the current environment within which we operate and an ability to adapt recommendations or advice as appropriate.

• Demonstrate a methodical, analytical and clear approach to problems using appropriate tools and technologies to help identify key trends.

• A strong advocate for data integrity and compliance, ensuring accurate and timely record-keeping of all employee relations matters within the case management tool (Service Now).

Other skills include:

• A confident delivery of verbal and written communications with excellent attention to detail.

• An ability to develop effective relationships with key stakeholders.

• Ability to influence through personal credibility.

• Adaptable to change and ways of working.

• Software skills: Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Excel and PowerPoint) and specific HR applications – of these, SAP and ServiceNow are preferable.

• Industry knowledge: An experienced HR professional that has come from either a professional services environment or alternatively a fast paced demanding ER role.