Description
Employee Relations Advisor
King Edward Street offices, London
6 Month Contract
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is currently seeking to recruit an Employee Relations Advisor to work as part of the Employee Relations (ER) team in their offices based in London.
The primary function of the role is to manage core ER processes, ensuring accurate and timely service delivery. Advisors are required to have an in-depth knowledge of the key processes, take ownership for continuous improvement in those processes, and highlight any requirements for management education where trends are identified. The role also supports the disciplinary and grievance processes, therefore providing the opportunity for growth and development within the broader ER function.
Key skills:
- Ability to manage, organise and prioritise numerous objectives, projects or activities simultaneously.
- Must be comfortable working under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail.
- Ability to make decisions balancing the risk reward trade off with good judgement skills.
- Ability to operate independently using their own initiative.
- Client focused providing excellent customer service.
- Positive attitude and results driven.
- Previous experience working with and advising senior managers in all employee relations matters in a large financial institution.
- CIPD qualified/part qualified and good working knowledge of UK Employment Law
Responsibilities:
- Support managers through the performance improvement process, providing advice on methods to improve performance in a targeted timeframe, in order to achieve and sustain desired improvements. This will include understanding the issues with the manager, providing advice on short term performance improvement methods for employees to achieve the required standards, advising on the preparation of a PIP and review processes, as well as how to conduct the meeting. Provide support and guidance to managers through the formal warning process, from commencement to completion.
- Manage Leave of Absence requests eg Career Break and Sabbatical.
- Sickness Absence Management: review absence data, follow up with manager/employee on cases, liaise with Occupational Health on referrals, manage Group Income Protection claims, advise managers on necessary action, assist employees with return to work.
- Ensure that any Data Subject Access Requests are completed on time and to the required standard by all parties (working with Case Managers to retrieve data and correspond with employee and liaison with Legal partners).
- Identify trends from issues being raised and create solutions to resolve them.
- Participate in ER/HR projects as well as policy updates as required.
If you wish to apply for the above position, please email me at Pontoon is a global HR outsourcing company specializing in improving an organization's talent. We manage the contingent workforce and statement of work resources on behalf of our clients, as well as source and recruit direct hires. Pontoon's approach results in significant cost savings and revenue improvement, increased worker quality, workforce insight and greater regulatory compliance.
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