HR Advisor London, England
Job description
Your role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for anyone looking to take their first step into a business-facing HR role as an HR Advisor within The Sun.
Your team:
Reporting to HR Business Partners, The Sun, you will be supporting The Sun and other business areas, and the HRBPs within those teams, working closely with the wider People team and business managers.
Day to day you will:
Support the HRBPs in all people-related processes - supporting the employee lifecycle from start to finish.
Working with the business/Finance/HRBPs, manage and oversee the process surrounding all financial and compensation business requirements and supporting paperwork.
Work alongside the HRBPs, supporting the processes surrounding organisational structure redesign.
Work with HRBPs on the the implementation of the year end compensation planning process.
Support HRBPs and work with the wider HR team on process and decisions relating to complex cases with financial or legal risks, e.g. redundancies, grievances, disciplinary actions. Ultimately progressing to managing these processes on your own.
Reinforce policies and practices – promptly escalate and assist to resolve issues.
Be the first point of contact for your client group’s HR queries; providing advice to management on employee relations and management issues.
Work with your HRBPs to interpret and present HR data, which will be used to make strategic recommendations to the client groups.
Work closely with the Administration teams in HR to ensure ‘HR basics’ are achieved in a timely and consistent manner.
Picking up ad hoc duties as and when required to ensure the success of the People team and its strategy.
What we’re looking for from you:
Someone who is looking to take their first step into a business-facing role, supporting the HRBPs to help drive HR initiatives and projects.
You will have good problem-solving skills, strong administrative skills and the ability to prioritise between competing priorities.
You will have assisted a People team in a support role.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to talk to people at all levels and offer first line advice in line with the company values.
Sound knowledge or a desire to learn UK employment law.
Proactive and enthusiastic approach to all things people!
We are: News UK and Ireland Ltd. is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations including talkSPORT, VirginRadio, talkRADIO and Times Radio.
Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 9 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship, Women’s Steering Group and Disability network.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
What's in it for you?
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Equal opportunities:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.
