Junior HR Advisor - FTC 6 months

Turner & Townsend; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm seeks a Junior HR Advisor to provide essential HR support across various functions. The role requires managing employee interactions regarding HR policies, supporting family leave processes, and conducting exit interviews, all while fostering a positive work environment. Ideal candidates will demonstrate flexibility, strong organisational skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Resilient and adaptable, with experience in a team environment.
• Highly organised and efficient with strong multi-tasking abilities.
• Positive attitude capable of influencing relationships at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR general advice and guidance on policy and process.
• Support sickness absence case work and manage medical declarations.
• Conduct exit interviews and compile absence and payroll reports.

Skills

Adaptability

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Organisation

Job description

Company Description

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. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

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.

Key role requirements

• 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. Conduct exit interviews with employees leaving the business and provide feedback to management through meaningful trends analysis.

Qualifications

Behaviours

• 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.

Additional Information

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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