Sewell Wallis is currently working with a brilliant, well-established business looking to appoint an HR Manager to their team for a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. Ideally, the candidate will be ready to start at the end of May.

The HR Manager is a true generalist role that will provide day-to-day operational guidance and advisory support to enable effective people management and people practices across all levels of the business, adding value to the business that you support.

Reporting to the HR Business Partner, this role offers a vast variety of tasks and responsibilities, often changing day to day and is undoubtedly demanding.

What will you be doing?

Responsible for providing stakeholders with guidance, coaching and advisory support on complex employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, TUPE Transfers and redundancy. As well as, on occasion, managing these processes directly.
Provide first line HR support, advice and coaching to designated client groups on the full life cycle of HR issues.
Assisting line managers to understand and implement policies and procedures.
Providing accurate, meaningful and insightful management information to stakeholders, identifying the opportunity to add value by recognising trends and patterns.
Promoting equity and diversity as part of the culture of the business.
Managing the review of HR policies & Contracts of Employment to ensure they are fit for purpose and meet legal and regulatory requirements, including producing toolkits and guidance documents for our line management population.
Liaising with the HR Service Centre, acting as an escalation point.

What skills are we looking for?

Experience in a similar HR Manager level role with strong ER experience.
Experience of working within professional services.
CIPD qualified (desirable).
Personable with strong communication and relationship-building capabilities across all levels of the business.

What's on offer?

Hybrid working.
Flexible working.
Excellent employee benefits.

Please send us your CV below or contact Becky Gibson for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.