Employee Relations Adviser

BDO; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm in Greater London is seeking an experienced Employee Relations Expert. This role involves providing high-quality ER advice, supporting management teams, and building relationships with senior stakeholders. Candidates should have substantial ER experience, knowledge of employment legislation, and strong interpersonal skills. The firm offers a supportive culture and development opportunities to achieve your career ambitions.

Benefits

Career development programs

Collaborative workspace

Mentoring and coaching

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in employee relations and support.
• Experience in taking detailed notes and advising during ER meetings.
• Willingness to travel across the UK for support.

Responsibilities

• Support and provide expert ER advice and tools.
• Enable delivery of high-quality professional advice on ER issues.
• Collaborate with senior managers and BDO partners.

Skills

Strong ER generalist experience

Proven experience in supporting ER meetings

Good knowledge of employment legislation

Strong understanding of ER matters

Ability to interact with senior stakeholders

Education

CIPD qualification (ER specific)

Job description

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long‑lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Reporting to the Employee Relations Manager. Supports and provides expert ER advice, tools and guidance to generalist, other HRD teams and business area, enabling high quality professional advice and guidance to the business on all ER issues, people policies and formal processes.

You’ll be someone with:

Essential

• Strong ER generalist experience within a relevant environment
• Proven experience and ability to set up and support ER meetings; being able to take proficient notes and provide on the spot advice.
• Willingness to travel across UK to support cases as and when required.
• Proven experience of pragmatic and commercial application of business aligned ER solutions
• Good knowledge of employment legislation and external best practice trends.
• Strong understanding of how ER matters impact commercial operations and vice versa.
• Proven experience of interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders
• Ability and confidence to understand when to escape more complex issues to ER Manager.

Preferred

• CIPD qualified (ER specific)
• Project management experience.
• Experience of writing outcome letters, succinct reports and recommendation papers to senior stakeholders.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people‑centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state‑of‑the‑art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.