HR Advisor

French Resources has been selected to work with Momentum, partner of Eurostar, to recruit a HR Advisor, ideally French speaking.

This is an on-site role based by St Pancras train station.

This is an exciting, varied role working in a small but busy HR department that is vital to their people operations for the London base. The HR Advisor will take charge of the HR department processes, ensuring best service possible to the staff. As they are a small company, you will be expected to assist other areas of the business as well, but this wont phase you as you will be someone who will love the challenges it brings and the knowledge you will gain. The HR Advisor will be supported by an experienced HR assistant and you will need to build a strong professional relationship with and provide day-to-day line management.

The successful candidate will be hired on a full-time contract, with a 6-month probation period.

ROLE of the HR Advisor:

Advise, coach and support employees and line managers on a wide range of ER issues across the full employee life cycle, ensuring fairness and consistency

Provide ER advice in line with legal compliance and consistency with Momentums values

Lead on absence and long-term sickness cases

Ensure prompt response to employee queries and in person support as appropriate

Provide ongoing briefing and coaching for managers on ER policies

Ensure all people related business activity is legally fully compliant

Complete all line management tasks for the HR Assistant

Manage the recruitment process for all candidates by providing assistance with interviewing and development of role profiles. As appropriate, advise on approach for recruitment of roles

Ensure all policies are up to date/ create new policies and ensure they are legally compliant

Working within a unionised environment on any planned HR changes and all ER matters ensuring good relations

Day to day management of HR department

Assist departments with payroll processing, helping employees with queries

Managing the drugs and alcohol process, ensuring testing is completed

Support the London HR Project Manager with business agenda

Confident in all activities related to the Employee Life Cycle (from hiring to contract ends)

*This is not an exhaustive list

PROFILE:

To be successful in this role, you will need to be a real people focused person who wants to show their HR skills as well as getting a great overview of our whole business.

Previous experience as HR Advisor, or HR Assistant or any relevant HR experience within a fast-paced environment such as retail, customer service, retail or hospitality

CIPD qualified or any other relevant qualifications (Human Resources, Psychology or Business Administration

Excellent communicator with a very high standard of written and spoken English with proven experience within a face to face environment

Previous management experience is mandatory

Tenacious, resourceful, resilient and ability to handle difficult situations

Comfortable in dealing with the ambiguity or challenging situations

Excellent confidentiality skills and employment law knowledge

Willingness to develop others to a high caliber of output and delivery and day-to day management of a HR Assistant, including performance reviews

Ability to work on your own with minimal supervision

French is a bonus, although not a requirement! As most of the employees are French nationals or French speakers, you will need to have a good understanding of French culture and be able to connect with everyone

SALARY AND BENEFITS:

Between £28k to £40k depending on experience and qualification + bonus

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, and is mainly an office based role.

Superb benefits including: Meal allowance, discounted Eurostar tickets, contributory pension scheme, discount in selected shops within St Pancras station and many more!

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