Accounts Assistant

Sewell Wallis; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established business in Leeds is looking for an HR Manager for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role is a true generalist position, providing operational guidance and support for effective people management across the business. Responsibilities include managing employee relations cases, providing HR support to designated groups, and ensuring compliance with policies. The position offers hybrid and flexible working along with excellent employee benefits. Immediate start is required.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Flexible working

Excellent employee benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar HR Manager level role with strong employee relations experience.
• CIPD qualified is desirable.
• Personable with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on complex employee relations casework.
• Offer first line HR support and advice on HR issues.
• Assist line managers with policies and procedures.
• Provide management information to stakeholders.
• Promote equity and diversity in the workplace.
• Manage review of HR policies and Contracts of Employment.

Skills

Employee relations expertise

Strong communication skills

Relationship-building capabilities

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

Sewell Wallis is currently working with a brilliant, well-established business based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, which is looking to appoint an HR Manager to their team for a 12-month fixed-term contract. You must be available to start immediately.

The HR Manager is a true generalist role that will provide day-to-day operational guidance and advisory support to enable effective people management & people practices across all levels of the business, adding value to the business that you support.

Reporting to the HR Business Partner, this role offers a vast variety of tasks and responsibilities, often changing day to day and is undoubtedly demanding.

What will you be doing?

• Responsible for providing stakeholders with guidance, coaching and advisory support on complex employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, TUPE Transfers and redundancy. As well as, on occasion, managing these processes directly.
• Provide first line HR support, advice and coaching to designated client groups on the full life cycle of HR issues.
• Assisting line managers to understand and implement policies and procedures.
• Providing accurate, meaningful and insightful management information to stakeholders, identifying the opportunity to add value by recognising trends and patterns.
• Promoting equity and diversity as part of the culture of the business.
• Managing the review of HR policies & Contracts of Employment to ensure they are fit for purpose and meet legal and regulatory requirements, including producing toolkits and guidance documents for our line management population.
• Liaising with the HR Service Centre, acting as an escalation point.

What skills are we looking for?

• Experience in a similar HR Manager level role with strong ER experience.
• CIPD qualified (desirable).
• Personable with strong communication and relationship-building capabilities across all levels of the business.

What's on offer?

• Hybrid working.
• Flexible working.
• Excellent employee benefits.

Please send us your CV below or contact Becky Gibson for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.

Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.