People Advisor

Summary

Join Target Group, a company focused on making a real impact in Financial Services and Technology, as a People Advisor. You will provide expert HR guidance and support to managers and colleagues, ensuring alignment with company policies and best practices. Daily tasks include supporting managers with employee relations, performance management, and absence management. You will foster a positive and inclusive workplace culture and lead on projects related to equality, diversity, inclusion, wellbeing, rewards, and benefits. The role involves analyzing HR data, staying updated on employment law, and supporting the benefit offering. This primarily remote position requires occasional attendance at the Cardiff or Newport office.

Requirements

• A team player with the ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively
• Comfortable working remotely and independently
• Experience working as a HR Advisor or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills and coaching abilities
• A genuine passion about colleague experience and engagement
• A People Person - you will be working with all our colleagues, from our fantastic Customer Service Executives through to our Exco Board
• Resilient and able to adapt and embrace change
• Great skills in Microsoft applications like Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• A strong understanding of employment law

Responsibilities

• Provide expert HR guidance and support to managers and colleagues across a wide range of topics, ensuring alignment with company policies, legal requirements, and best practice
• Be the main point of contact for managers, providing support on everything from probationary reviews, performance management, absence management and so on
• Support managers navigate through employee cases, offering practical and people-centred solutions
• Foster a positive and inclusive workplace culture by working with Managers across the business to ensure equal opportunities, colleague development and engagement is at the heart of what we do
• Ensuring our policies and procedures are fit for purpose, and in line with our values and objectives
• Leading on projects - we're completely guided by you and your passions, we are looking for people to inspire the organisation, this could include leading or supporting on: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
• Wellbeing
• Rewards and Benefits
• Employee Engagement
• Supporting Senior People Partners on People Projects, such as TUPE, Organisational Change and new business
• Support and manage our benefit offering, working closely with the Senior People Partner and our benefits administrator to ensure the schemes are competitive and aligned with our colleagues needs. You will also ensure that all benefits are processed accurately and efficiently, delivering a seamless experience to our colleagues
• Analysing HR data to provide a range of solutions on HR or operational projects
• Staying up to date on employment law and regulations and ensuring that any changes are implemented effectively

Preferred Qualifications

• CIPD Qualified (Desirable)
• An understanding of Payroll processing is desirable, so that you can support the People Officer when required
• Employee relations issues and cases
• Report writing and Management Information
• HR Project or Initiatives implementation
• Policy and process generation and continuous improvement
• Understanding and application of changes in employment law
• Demonstrable experience of using dedicated HR systems to extract management information
• Demonstrable experience of advising managers effectively

Benefits

• A competitive salary of up to £36,000 per annum, depending on experience
• 30 days holiday PLUS bank holidays (That's right! 30 days from Day 1)
• At least two days per year to give back to our community through our volunteering initiative
• Defined Pension Contribution Scheme (Employer matched up to 6%) with the option to contribute via Salary Exchange (Salary Sacrifice)
• Employee Discount Scheme, access to discounts and offers across 100s of leading retailers
• Company Paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
• Group Life Assurance (4x Annual Salary)
• Group Income Protection
• Annual Pay Review
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Help@Hand – Confidential access to health and wellbeing support to include Employee Assistance Program
• Free Flu Vaccinations, Eye Tests and employer contribution towards glasses
• Recognition Scheme
• Free Mortgage Advice and Support
• Funeral Concierge and Bereavement Services
• 24/7 access to a GP
• Discounted health club memberships
• Salary Sacrifice Technology Buying Scheme
• Access to Wisdom, total wellbeing solution