Senior HR Advisor

Midasplayer.Com Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in London seeks a Senior HR Advisor to support employees and managers across various functions. The role involves guiding HR processes, enhancing employee experience, and managing employee relations. Ideal candidates should have HR advisory experience, knowledge of local laws, and be proficient in HR systems like Workday. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing HR processes.
• Knowledge of local employment law.
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Advise on HR policies and practices.
• Resolve employee relations issues.
• Maintain reliable employee data and reporting.

Skills

HR Advisory experience

Employee relations

Strong advisory skills

Data analysis

Time management

Education

CIPD level qualification

Tools

Workday

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Craft

HR & Business Support

Job Description

At King and Activision Blizzard (AB) we create world-class games that bring fun and entertainment to millions. Just as we strive to deliver entertaining experiences to our players we are equally committed to fostering a fun supportive and inclusive employee experience that sits at the heart of our culture and values.

Reporting to the Senior People Director we are looking for a Senior HR Advisor to support our UK employees and managers across King AB Go-to-Market and Corporate Functions. Partnering closely with HR Partners in these areas you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping employee experience throughout the lifecycle from onboarding to performance and engagement while championing our culture and values every step of the way.

We’re looking for someone who is super organized has great people skills strong data management and process implementation experience and is passionate about providing great employee experience.

You will love supporting your client groups providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday challenges and driving improvements that simplify our ways of working.

Your role in our Kingdom

• Independently advise on HR policies practices and local regulatory requirements to resolve manager and employee policy queries linked to core HR processes absence probation performance management reward mobility and much more.
• Act as a trusted advisor to managers with employee relations issues from: performance management disciplinaries and grievances to supporting our employees with sickness maternity / paternity. You will have great listening skills be objective fair and offer advice and feedback ensuring the employee experience continuously lives up to our culture and values
• Maintains awareness of local labour laws that may impact the UK. Owns policies - takes an active role in updating local policies and educating managers. Works with peers and legal to update our intranet pages as needed.
• Own the management information for your function(s) ensuring it is reliable relevant and up to date enabling leadership to make the right decisions. This will include analysing resource data such as turnover retention new hires compensation productivity and capability. Ensuring that resourcing talent succession plan and employees records are accurate and up to date and that we are pulling insights and recommendations from these that support both our business and people objectives.
• You will own the maintenance of data and employee changes in workday for your areas looking at ways to continuously improve our practices here and ways of working with our global Employee Experience team
• Championing our values and culture you will support training programs around local and company wide: Performance Management and talent frameworks DE&I strategies ethical laws standards and policies.
• Support with the resourcing of our future talent working with the business and talent acquisition to be our values and potential check for junior recruitment of individual contributors interns and other development schemes.
• You will support local onboarding and partner with managers to ensure the onboarding of our new employees over their first 90 days lives up to expectations
• You will support our Employee Engagement initiatives; from running focus groups preparing communications data collection and analysis to the coordination of team feedback and action plans to ensure we follow up on our commitments and continuously drive improvements
• Conducts exit interviews as applicable ensuring learning from these are captured and fed back into both people and business plans.
• Actively support other HR initiatives projects events community days etc. This will include the development of project plans (i.e. actions risks and issues timelines) and supporting of local and functional projects to help improve our employee experience.
• Local regulatory administrative tasks as require
• Collaborate with the HR community to share best practices and knowledge to ensure consistency and quality of HR processes in different locations and business units.

Skills to create thrills

• HR experience gained in a HR Advisory role with hands‑on experience of managing end to end HR people processes. You will be professional credible and responsive
• Strong advisory skills and knowledge and experience of applying local employment law.
• Employee relations experience
• Experience of interpreting and applying HR policies and procedures with the ability to identify potential ER issues.
• Thorough understanding of local payroll and general understanding of tax implications of compensation and benefits and their related risks
• Experience managing multiple activities and collaborating with others to get the job done.
• Strong attention to detail organizational and excellent time management skills.
• Strong experience of data analysis management pulling of insights and recommendations from this. Actively listens to the business on improvements that could be made to the metrics.
• Seeks new ways to improve HR processes and outcomes and contribute to process improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders employees and HR peers to ensure effective team collaboration and an enhanced customer / employee experience.
• Sound judgement and decision making with the ability to identify and resolve problems provide solutions and take necessary actions to prevent them from developing in future.
• Appreciation and understanding of the need for confidentiality and discretion in dealing with any people related activities. Works with employees affected by changes to explain rationale and reinforce the need to change.
• Excellent IT skills particularly Excel Word and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team.

Bonus skills

• CIPD level qualification.
• Experience of using HR systems such as Workday.
• Experience with using case management systems.
• Ability to gather internal HR metrics and present them in a useful way.
• Basic understanding of project management methodology.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the worlds most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Sag a. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King part of Microsoft (NASDAQ : MSFT) has Kingsters in Stockholm Malm London Barcelona Berlin Dublin San Francisco New York Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.

Required Experience

Senior IC

Key Skills

HR Reporting,ABAP,HR Recruitment,HR Operations,Biotech

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1