HR Officer in Slough

To provide comprehensive HR operational support to an SME business of circa 100 heads across 3 sites - (UK, Spain and Israel). To ensure efficient delivery of HR services across the organisation. The HR Officer will act as a key point of contact for day-to-day HR queries, maintain HR systems and documentation.

Role Purpose:

• Provide comprehensive HR administrative and operational support to the HR function, ensuring efficient delivery of HR services across the organisation.
• Act as a key point of contact for day-to-day HR queries, maintain HR systems and documentation, and support across 3 sites (UK, Spain and Israel).
• Provide first-line support for day-to-day HR queries, including employee benefits, policies, and procedures.
• Maintain and update the HR system (employee records, starters, leavers, changes).
• Prepare and issue HR documentation including maternity/paternity letters, reference, Visa letters and resignation acknowledgements.
• Conduct reference checks for new hires.
• Manage and maintain the HR SharePoint site.
• Update and maintain organisational charts.
• Support onboarding and offboarding processes.
• Ensure right-to-work checks and pre-employment compliance are completed.
• Maintain absence and leave records.
• Create and maintain HR tracker.
• Coordinate training and development activities.
• Support HRBP (Spain) and Head of HR (UK) on ad hoc administration process and projects.
• Support employee engagement initiatives and internal communications.
• Drive continuous improvement of HR processes by reviewing workflows, identifying efficiencies, and implementing HR best practices to enhance service delivery and employee experience.
• Liaise with external providers (e.g. benefit provider), setting up new suppliers and raising purchase orders.

Additional Key Accountabilities:

• Produce, maintain, and analyse headcount, workforce, and HR metrics reports, ensuring data accuracy and providing insights to support business decision-making.
• Liaise with HR teams and stakeholders in Japan and other international locations to ensure alignment, consistency, and effective communication across global HR processes.
• Support the standardisation and harmonisation of HR policies, procedures, templates, and documentation across multiple sites and regions.
• Manage, maintain, and develop the HR SharePoint platform, ensuring content is accurate, up to date, accessible, and aligned with business requirements.
• Lead and support HR system and process improvement initiatives, promoting data accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.
• Support the annual salary review and bonus processes, including data preparation, salary increase modelling, compensation analysis, and reporting.
• Prepare and maintain compensation, headcount, and organisational reports for senior management and business stakeholders.

This role is offered on a hybrid basis, with the expectation that you will be in the Slough office 2-3 days per week - parking is available.

Profile:

• Demonstrable experience and multi-year tenure in HR Officer role (or similar level).
• Hands-on Generalist experience across the employee lifecycle.
• Knowledge of HR processes and employee lifecycle.
• Proven experience managing and analysing annual salary review and bonus processes, including compensation tracking, budgeting support, salary increase modelling, and management reporting.
• Strong analytical and data management skills with the ability to interpret workforce metrics, compensation data, headcount trends, and HR KPIs.
• Experience producing detailed HR reports and presenting accurate workforce and compensation data to senior stakeholders.
• Experience working within multinational organisations and collaborating with international HR teams to support global HR initiatives and process standardisation.
• Strong process improvement mindset with experience implementing HR best practices, streamlining workflows, and enhancing operational effectiveness.
• Experience with HR systems, ideally SAP SuccessFactors.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office. Strong Excel skills - ideally, including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUPs/VLOOKUPs, Power Query, data validation, complex formulas, reporting dashboards, and data analysis.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Desirable - Japanese speaking.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Approachable and customer-focused.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Team player.
• Problem-solving mindset.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Self-starter.
• Thinking out of the box.

This permanent role in Slough offers the following:

• Competitive salary up to £45,000, depending on individual experience/capability.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid working - 2-3 days per week in the office - parking available.