Junior HR Advisor - FTC 6 months

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

As part of our UK HR team you will be responsible for providing a generalist HR service across the designated divisions. The Junior HR Advisor will play a crucial role in managing and supporting various HR functions, including visas and immigration support, employee transfers, and processing disturbance allowances. This role involves direct interaction with employees to discuss medical declarations, support those on maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, and handle flexible working escalations. Additionally, you will conduct exit interviews, compile absence and payroll reports, process career breaks, and support the remote working process.

• Provision of HR general advice and guidance on policy and process, recommending appropriate solutions.
• Support case work for sickness absence, occupational health referrals and the PHI application process.
• Discuss and manage medical declarations with employees, ensuring confidentiality and compliance.
• Process and manage all discretionary pay, leave, disturbance allowance and career break requests for eligible employees.
• Manage all family friendly leave and handle escalations related to flexible working requests.
• Manage global and local transfers in and out of region. Manage visa and right to work processes.
• Support the delivery of HR Calendar activities e.g. bi-annual reward process, talent management, performance review, employee engagement and EDI.
• Production of people related reports, in-depth data analysis and visual presentations, coordination of monthly payroll activities and provision of ad hoc management information queries from operational teams.
• Conduct exit interviews and produce value added, meaningful analysis.

• Make change happen: Resilient, adaptable with demonstrable experience of working in a small, fast-paced team environment.
• Do better everyday: Highly organised and efficient with excellent attention to detail and the ability to multi-task. Desire to solve problems and strive for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate to deliver our best work: Positive attitude and ability to influence and develop relationships with a variety of teams and individuals at all levels across the business.
• Always learning: Constantly have an ear to the ground to develop commercial awareness, advance data and analytics skills and stay up-to-date with changes in employment law and industry best practice.
• Treat each other with care and respect: Excellent interpersonal skills, balancing compassion with the ability to make difficult decisions when needed.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.