About The Role
As a HR Adviser, you will play an integral role in helping the business achieve its strategic goals by providing advice and guidance in relation to building high performance teams and culture. Working closely with employees and managers you will help ensure that our people are engaged and supported whilst driving best practice and ensuring compliance with company procedures, documented policies, and employment legislation.
This is a varied HR generalist role in which you will work closely with the Foxtons management team and have responsibility for a wide range of tasks.
These include:
Building great relationships with employees and managers by understanding their challenges from a people perspective and coaching and supporting them in employment matters
Educating, motivating, and empowering managers to support and engage their teams
Advising senior managers on a range of ER cases in line with company policy and procedure and relevant legislation
Educating and empowering managers to successfully manage and support their teams
Advising and guiding on attendance, performance, wellbeing, engagement, development, and retention
Overseeing the employee lifecycle, including preparing new starter contracts, processing reference requests, maintaining employee records, and managing exits
Processing family leave entitlement
Assisting with payroll preparation
We Offer:
Hybrid working model - 2 days working from home once settled into role plus the option of one additional day working from a Foxtons office
Comprehensive, ongoing training and development programme
Great career opportunities
Exposure to diverse aspects of the business
Vibrant company culture including paid-for social events
Diversity and inclusion networks
One paid work day a year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
Wellbeing package including enhanced sick pay, free confidential counselling helpline, Mental Health First Aiders, and access to a coaching platform
Enhanced parental policies, including generous shared parental leave
Subsidised staff café and bar
About You
5+ years' experience in a HR Adviser or equivalent generalist HR role
Proven experience managing complex Employee Relations cases and advising managers on people matters
Strong knowledge of employment law with the confidence to provide pragmatic, risk-based advice
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge at all levels
Ability to work autonomously, managing a varied caseload and competing priorities
Experience owning HR processes end-to-end, delivering thorough and timely outcomes
Sound judgement with the ability to identify and mitigate legal, financial and reputational risk
Strong administration, organisational and documentation skills with excellent attention to detail
Experience working in a fast-paced environment and must able to commute to our Chiswick Head Office
About The Company
As London’s number 1 estate agency brand,* our customers choose us because we get it done. And we know it’s our people that make us so successful. In over 40 years serving London and the Home Counties, we have discovered a winning formula for creating driven and ambitious professionals. This includes the best training at every stage, market-leading technology and the opportunity to work alongside some of the industry’s most influential professionals.
Is it important for you to know our Corporate Social Responsibility before you apply? Great, it’s important to us too. Whether we’re providing LGBTQ+ safe spaces, stocking our offices from charitable water suppliers or engaging in fabulous local events, our 50+ offices across London play a key part in our communities. We also offer annual paid time off for employees to volunteer at a charity of their choice. Many choose to support our partner, Single Homeless Project. This is London's largest homelessness charity, making a difference in 10,000 Londoners’ lives across all 32 boroughs.
* TwentyCI data, 2023 v 2022…