HR ADVISOR - 12 MONTH FTC

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.

The purpose of this role is to work in partnership and provide professional advice and guidance to partners and managers on all human resources issues. This comprises commercially focused people solutions that take into account the business strategy and growth planning, BDO policies/procedures, employment legislation, BDO values and HR best practice. In this role you’ll also have responsibility for:

• Employee relations - discipline, grievance, performance management, absence management, restructures and employment termination.
• Pragmatic application of employment legislation to avoid possible litigation to the Firm.
• Local facilitation of salary review processes; application and interpretation of benefits, firm policies and contractual terms and conditions
• Actively promote and implement new initiatives and changes either within the firm or the wider arena of HR
• Interpret exit interview analysis to identify areas for improvement and recommendations
• Support on embedding self-service in the business for transactional HR activities.
• Collaboration with other HR colleagues in the generalist team and SMEs.
• Involvement in HR projects and new initiatives; willing to undertake any other relevant activity as reasonably requested.

You'll be someone with:

• Previous HR experience as an HR generalist
• Good understanding of employment legislation
• Direct experience of advising on performance, disciplinary, grievance, absence management and general employee relations issues including termination of employment
• Proven experience of building effective relationships with internal client base with strong stakeholder management skills
• Part or full CIPD qualification is desirable.

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.