Employee Relations Advisor Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Employee Relations Advisor to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver training workshops to managers on key HR areas as required;
- Develop and manage effective internal team relationships;
- Advising employees and managers in resolving conflict issues and dealing with grievances;
- Broad Employee Relations experience;
- Flexible and proactive approach to your work;
- Be self-motivated and work autonomously providing the required outputs;
- Identification of business issues and trends;
- Communicate clearly and concisely at all levels and exhibit strong listening skills;
- Identify and get to the root cause of issues quickly and effectively and solve complex problems;
- Confidently deal with conflict, expressing opinions, making sound commercial decisions and standing by the outcome;
- See the ‘bigger picture’, be a strong influencer and be confident enough to build and shape the business from both a commercial and people perspective;
- Act as the internal escalation and expert on all aspects of ER and build effective relationships with key internal stakeholders;
- Undertake project work;
- Provide generalist support such as casework investigations and meetings;
- Working with the ER Manager to provide up to date legislative information to the business.
Requirements:
- Degree educated or equivalent;
- Be self motivated and work autonomously providing the required outputs;
- Experienced in HR ideally within a large organisation;
- Confidently deal with conflict, expressing opinions, making sound commercial decisions and standing by the outcome;
- High level credibility and confidentiality, with the sensitivity and diplomacy to deal effectively with challenging situations;
- Experience in Employee Relations is essential, able to demonstrate a confident knowledge of employment law and HR policy;
- Minimum CIPD level 3 qualified (ideally level 5), with a keen desire to becoming fully qualified;
- Additional European language skills an advantage;
- Experience within Financial Services/ FinTech/ Corporate environment preferred;
- Demonstrable stakeholder engagement;
- Ability to manage own workload efficiently and effectively, plan and prioritise appropriately and identify/ escalate high risk/ complex issues;
- Ability to deal with multiple deadlines and prioritise effectively and accurately in a fast-paced environment;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Experience of working in a fast paced environment together with a flexible approach and a commitment to completing tasks;
- Qualified to degree level (or equivalent).