HR Assistant – Business Partnering

Kennedys is looking for a proactive and experienced HR Assistant to join our Business Partnering team at Kennedys. The role provides administrative support to the Business Partnering team in the UK across the employee lifecycle, including with; maintaining employee records, payroll, employee relations activity, HR cyclical activity and responding to first line HR queries. The successful candidate will be an HR Assistant or Administrator with experience in a similar role within a professional services environment.

Team

Kennedys HR team support the firm around the world with all people related matters.

The HR team is based in Chelmsford and London for the UK, Dublin and Belfast for EMEA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia for APAC, Basking Ridge for US and London/LATAM for LATAM. The areas of HR that we have responsibility for are Business Partnering, Learning and Development Recruitment, Responsible Business (Social Impact and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and Reward and HR Systems. The HR function is also responsible for the Secretarial function in the UK.

Key responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the HR Business Partnering team, assisting with key tasks including preparing documentation, arranging meetings, taking notes, and maintaining accurate records.


• Produce regular and ad hoc reporting and assist with the monitoring and administration of monthly processes including payroll, headcount, and sickness reporting.


• Monitor and support with queries in the HR inbox.


• Assist with monthly payroll processes for the UK.


• Production and checking of employee documentation throughout the employee lifecycle including joiners and leavers, secondments, family leave, and change of terms.


• Assist with administration of Employee Relations activities such as investigations, flexible working, disciplinary and grievance processes.


• Assist with and coordinate HR cyclical activity as required, e.g. salary review, promotion processes, budgets, joiner, and leaver processes.


• Ensure employee data is accurately recorded and maintained within HR systems.

• Strong working knowledge of HR administration such as document production, HR systems, policies, and processes.


• HR experience in a professional services environment.


• Strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.


• Experience managing a high volume of queries and tasks which require prioritisation.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Good level of IT literacy and numeracy skills including HR systems, Excel and Word.


• Understands the need for confidentiality and has a good understanding of GDPR requirements with reference to employee data.


• Ability to work at speed and balance a wide range of activities at any one time and at short notice.


• CIPD Level 3 or working towards this is desired.

• *where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.*

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