Human Resources Advisor in Newtownabbey

Synechron is looking for a HR Advisor to support the delivery of high-quality people support across the UK business (c.300 employees across London, Belfast and Scotland). The role is designed for an experienced HR professional (c.3–5 years) who is ready to step into a broader advisory position, building confidence in employee relations and manager support while remaining hands-on with core HR operations. The role is designed to operate on a 60% advisory / 40% operational basis. The EMEA People Operations team are continuing to build capability in UK processes, so there will be a short-term transitionary phase where the role may involve a higher proportion of hands-on operational support. This provides an opportunity to influence how UK processes are embedded and to support the long-term shift toward a more advisory-focused model. This is an exciting development role with clear exposure to advisory work, Employee Relations (ER) cases, and people initiatives.

HR Advisory Role (c.60%)

• Act as the first point of contact for managers on day-to-day people matters, providing clear, legally sound and commercially mindful HR advice across areas such as absence, employment law, performance management, conduct and probation processes.
• Own and manage ER cases such as absence management, probation issues and performance management.
• Partner with the UK Head of HR on complex employee relations matters, with increasing responsibility for managing disciplinaries, grievances and restructures.
• Own the HR management of the graduate scheme, providing guidance and support to managers and ensuring effective delivery across the programme lifecycle.
• Contribute to people initiatives and HR taskforces (e.g. Performance Management, Onboarding, Great Place to Work).
• Support with cyclical people processes such as performance reviews and compensation cycles from an advisory perspective.

HR Operations Role (c.40%)

• Provide hands-on support to the EMEA People Operations team when required, ensuring continuity and quality of service.
• Support onboarding processes for new starters, ensuring coordination with local stakeholders and inductions are completed.
• Use Excel to track and analyse HR data, producing reports and insights that support effective decision-making and core HR processes (including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables).
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve or streamline operational processes, feeding into ongoing Ops improvement work.

Experience

• 3–5 years’ experience in an HR role, ideally supporting a similar-sized employee population.
• Prior exposure to employee relations work (e.g. absence, disciplinaries, grievances) with a strong desire to deepen ER capability.
• Experience providing advice or guidance to managers on people matters.
• Strong Excel capability, including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables.
• Experience working within HR systems (Workday or similar).
• Open to and comfortable adopting AI-enabled tools to support the effective delivery of HR processes.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment with changing priorities.

Desirable:

• Experience working with global or offshore HR Operations teams.
• Exposure to early careers programmes or populations.

Permanent position - Excellent benefits - Competitive Salary - Hybrid working (x3 days in office).