HR, Payroll and Benefits Advisor in Reading

HRLife are excited to be recruiting a generalist HR Advisor for a 12-14 month FTC to start immediately and are looking for a pro-active HR professional who has gained broad HR administration and advisory experience in addition to strong payroll and systems knowledge now looking for that next challenge.

Working in a small team this is a great opportunity for someone who loves being busy, is proactive, likes data and wants to work in a supportive team.

Key responsibilities will include;

• Working closely with the Head of HR to provide a first class offering to managers and employees on everything people – being the first point of contact for all queries.
• Contribute to HR process improvements, documentation updates, and policy reviews.
• Support HR initiatives such as engagement surveys, performance cycles, and training coordination.
• Manage the central HR inbox, triaging and responding to queries, escalating where appropriate, and ensuring SLAs are met.
• Coordinate and manage the monthly payroll process, ensuring accuracy and compliance with statutory and internal deadlines.
• Working with existing payroll processes to streamline and look for improvements
• Support the onboarding and offboarding process, including contracts, background checks, system access, and exit documentation.
• Draft HR letters and documentation (e.g. employment confirmations, changes to terms, references).
• Assist with visa and right-to-work checks, ensuring compliance with immigration requirements.
• Able to manipulate data, extract data and reports from Workday for managers
• Maintain and update employee records in Workday, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
• Lead on HR reporting, producing regular and ad hoc reports (e.g. headcount, turnover, absence, DEI metrics) to support business needs.
• Support data audits and compliance checks to ensure HR records meet internal and legal standards.
• Provide cover and support across the wider HR team as needed during the maternity leave period.

Hybrid working – 2 days a week in the office. You’ll likely have solid generalist experience, have sound HR co-ordination experience and be able to get stuck into the detail, have great Excel knowledge and be happy to turn your hand to most things!

Salary c. 40-45k plus bens