Job Title: Senior HR Advisor

Location: Manchester (Hybrid working available)
Sector: Professional Services / Legal
Contract: Permanent

Company Overview

An international professional services organisation is seeking an experienced HR professional to join its UK-based HR team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys operating in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and partnering closely with stakeholders to deliver high-quality HR support.

The Role

This role will be aligned to several UK-based business services teams, where you will act as a trusted HR partner. You will provide day-to-day operational HR support while also contributing to longer-term people initiatives and projects.

Working closely with managers and HR colleagues, you will help drive best practice across the employee lifecycle and support the delivery of strategic people priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for managers on a wide range of HR matters, including the practical application of HR policies and procedures
• Provide guidance on absence management, occupational health referrals, employee relations issues, disciplinary and grievance cases
• Support managers with general employee queries and people-related decision making
• Partner with the Resourcing team on recruitment activity, including approvals, headcount management and onboarding
• Support the development and management of apprentices, graduates, new joiners and leavers
• Maintain oversight of headcount and workforce changes within allocated teams
• Produce and review monthly HR reports in conjunction with the HR MI team, identifying trends and areas for action
• Contribute to and support a range of HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives

About You

• Proven experience in a generalist HR role, with strong business partnering capability
• Comfortable working autonomously and managing a varied workload with minimal supervision
• Confident advising and influencing managers, including at senior level
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships
• Ideally graduate calibre and part-qualified or fully qualified CIPD (desirable but not essential)
• Experience within a professional services or similarly fast-paced environment is advantageous, though not essential

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to work within a highly regarded professional services environment
• Exposure to a broad and varied HR remit
• Strong emphasis on collaboration, development and progression
• Supportive and experienced HR team