Hr Assistant

Turner & Townsend; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness initiatives

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a HR Assistant to support transactional HR activities with a focus on accuracy and compliance. You will contribute to onboarding, offboarding, and changes to terms of employment, while keeping HR systems up to date and supporting HR projects.

The role offers hybrid working patterns; you may work from home as required and collaborate with the broader HR team to deliver high-quality results.

Qualifications

• Experience as HR Administrator or HR Assistant with high accuracy and attention to detail.
• Workday experience is advantageous.
• Understanding of Right to Work requirements.
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and deadlines.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Proficient in IT/HR systems including MS Office and SharePoint.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage onboarding for new starters within SLA and payroll deadlines, including right-to-work checks.
• Handle offboarding for leavers within monthly payroll deadlines.
• Process changes to terms and conditions, including transfers; issue letters as needed.
• Ensure HR system is updated with changes (cost centres, terms, line managers).
• Manage day-to-day administration queries (maternity, paternity, flexible working).
• Provide support and lead projects, including process improvements.
• Support wider HR teams with PowerPoint presentations and meeting notes.

Skills

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Team player

Time management

Organisational skills

Adaptable

IT literacy

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

SharePoint

Workday

Job description

Job Description

We have an opportunity to join our dynamic and fast paced HR team as a HR Assistant. The successful individual will play a key role in supporting our team with a particular focus on the transactional elements of HR, ensuring accuracy and compliance across a range of HR activities, as well as supporting wider HR teams.

Duties

• Managing the full onboarding process for new starters within SLA and payroll deadline. This includes ensuring right to work in the UK documentation is accurate, issuing of the offer via DocuSign and undertaking all onboarding activities to ensure the onboarding process is managed in an efficient manner. Creating and maintaining employee electronic records.
• Managing the offboarding process for all leavers working within monthly payroll deadline.
• Managing all changes to terms and conditions of employment, including UK transfers as required. This includes issuing of letters and confirming to employees changes to their terms and conditions.
• Ensuring the HR System is updated with relevant employee changes including cost centre moves, changes to terms and conditions, line manager changes.
• Manage and respond to day-to-day administration queries including maternity, paternity, and flexible working processes.
• Providing support and taking the lead on projects including process improvements.
• Providing support to wider HR teams to include creation of PowerPoint presentations, note taking in HR meetings and support with day-to-day activities.

Hybrid working patterns are envisaged but this may vary in accordance with the requirements of Turner & Townsend or clients. Candidates must be able to work at their designated home office as required.

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working as a HR Administrator or HR Assistant with excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Previous experience of Workday would be adventageous
• An understanding of Right to Work.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned work and tasks.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills being able to manage a varied high volume workload ensuring deadlines are met.
• Confident in the use of IT systems and HR systems.
• Confident in the use of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and SharePoint
• Strong communications skills
• An enthusiastic team player who actively contributes in a flexible and adaptable manner.

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.