Description
A fantastic opportunity has arisen in a leading investment bank for an Employee Relations Case Advisor, to work within their established team based at their prestigious offices in Central London.
The primary responsibility of the role holder is to manage core processes ensuring accurate and timely service delivery. Advisors are required to develop an in-depth knowledge of processes and take ownership for continuous improvement and trend analysis in those processes.
Responsibilities:
- Flexible Working Requests: meet with all involved to understand the nature of the request and the business's ability to accommodate the request.
- Manage Leave of Absence requests eg Career Break and Sabbatical.
- Sickness Absence Management: review absence data, follow up with manager/Employee on cases and liaise with Occupational Health on referrals
- Attending disciplinary and grievance sessions through to closure for more routine cases. This requires full knowledge and understanding of the banks disciplinary and grievance processes and the legal framework governing such processes.
- Handle FSA exam failure cases under the disciplinary procedure
- Handling redundancies: assist in preparation with managers, hold meetings with Employees and managers.
- May involve travel to all London offices.
Skills and Requirements:
Essential:
- Deep subject matter technical and functional expertise in employment law, HR policy and process gained through working in an employee relations function or an HR department with a strong employee relations element.
- Ability to manage and prioritize numerous and often conflicting objectives, projects or activities simultaneously. Must be comfortable working under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail.
- Ability to operate independently on own initiative
- Excellent interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills are required in order to interact with all levels of management and staff.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must be flexible in adapting to a dynamic, fast paced environment.
- Must understand component parts of HR and their responsibilities to ensure that queries are handled by the appropriate team
- Exposure to dealing with highly confidential information and a proven record of remaining confidential at all times.
- General IT/MS Office skills (ie Word, Excel, etc.)