People Consultant (Junior / Mid Level)

Our People Operations team supports and enables everyone in FreeAgent to focus on doing their best work, through the delivery of exceptional service across our 3 sub-teams: the People team, Talent team and Front Office team. The working environment is fast paced, agile and fun. We are a highly supportive and collaborative team and central to the way we work is a desire to work smarter, finding ways to improve what we do and how we do it.

Department: People Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Edinburgh

Compensation: £28,000 - £34,000 / year

We’re on the lookout for a generalist People Consultant to join our friendly and supportive People team. As a People Consultant, you’ll enjoy variety, ongoing development, and have a chance to influence a variety of strategic people focused projects. To be successful in this position you’ll have had experience in a similar HR role at a junior or mid level, and be able to demonstrate your ability to advise managers on various people topics.

Responsibilities:

• Owning key people processes: managing a range of employee lifecycle processes from end to end
• Delivering advisory and ER support: guiding managers and employees through policies and procedures, performance and absence management, and first-stage case resolution
• Driving projects and continuous improvement: owning small projects from start to finish, contributing to larger team initiatives, and using feedback to sharpen our processes
• Keeping on top of the day-to-day activities that keep the people function running, including:

• Facilitating inductions, exit interviews, and surveys
• Managing internal communications, share schemes, and ad hoc reporting requests
• Supporting reward processes and wider team activities

Ideal, or desirable, experience:

• CIPD Level 5 qualification in Human Resource Management (or equivalent experience)
• Experience advising managers on people issues or policies
• Knowledge and experience administering various employee lifecycle processes
• High level of computer literacy and ability to pick up new systems quickly

Bonus points:

• Employee relations case management experience
• Previous experience in a People Consultant position
• CIPD level 7 qualification in Human Resource Management

Work pattern:

This is a permanent, full time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm). This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is supported as we have championed remote working for years.

Perks:

The salary band for this role is £28,000 - £34,000 per annum. We’re open to hiring someone at the Junior People Consultant or People Consultant level for this role, so the actual salary offered will depend on experience. We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to):

• 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you’re with us)
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Private health care
• Life assurance
• 5% matched pension contributions
• Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
• Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
• Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellness webinars
• Focused learning time and learning budgets
• Volunteering day

FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK’s most popular online accounting software providers, with over 200,000 customers.

FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.

We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.