HR Manager

Ideas | People | Trust Increase your chances of an interview by reading the following overview of this role before making an application. We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them. We’ll broaden your horizons  Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions. We’ll help you succeed Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships. You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.  You will;

• Provide business-focused and best practice HR support to designated areas of the business.
• Act as a primary contact for HR matters to Partners and People Managers (PMs) with support of HR Advisors and the wider HR function.
• Work closely with specific People Partners or business leaders to drive forward the firm-wide people proposition and local people priorities within your designated business areas. 
• Be a credible and commercial business advisor, offering Partners and Business leaders considered HR guidance in line with employment legislation, firm policy and best practice. 
• Lead and deliver key HR calendar activities such as annual performance reviews, promotions and reward reviews. 
• Work closely with your business areas to identify localised HR initiatives and priorities, keeping closely connected with the Senior HR Manager and wider HR function to ensure alignment and consistency. 
• Support the Senior HR Manager to drive firm-wide and stream-specific strategic priorities, collaborating across the HR function to provide a seamless and first-class HR Service.
• Manage two HR Advisors, offering ongoing career development and guidance to ensure the delivery of a seamless HR experience in your business areas. 
• Identify areas for improvement in the delivery of calendar activities and help implement recommendations and changes.
• Establish and maintain influential relationships with key stakeholders – including Partners, PMs and the wider HR function.
• Pro-actively coach PMs and Partners in HR matters.
• Provide HR support for projects within your designated business areas and lead on firm-wide projects as required.
• Have an excellent understanding of the Centres of Excellence and what the HR team can and does deliver, leveraging and working in partnership with them to support your designated business area.

Principal Accountabilities

• Resolve people issues to deliver commercially pragmatic outcomes, escalating as appropriate.
• Resolve people issues to deliver commercially pragmatic outcomes, escalating as appropriate.
• Take a commercial, considered stance to HR-related risk assessment linking in with the Senior HR Manager and ER team and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Coach PMs and Partners on HR matters to share your knowledge and increase their capability in dealing with people matters
• Advise PMs and Partners on HR policy and process and helping managers to make fair and commercially sound decisions e.g. flexible working requests, absence etc).
• Advise PMs and Partners on broader HR activities such as absence management, performance and talent management and other people related matters. 
• Lead cyclic events like salary review, consistency meetings and promotions (e.g. preparing ad hoc reports, attending consistency meetings)
• Actively share knowledge and experience proactively across the team and be recognised as an expert in your business area.

You'll be someone with:

• Ideally educated to degree level and/or CIPD qualified or working towards completion of CIPD qualification.
• Experience of working within professional services useful but not essential.
• Proven experience of employee relations issues and taking a pragmatic approach to managing them.
• Strong working knowledge of employment legislation and best practice.
• Proven experience as a credible and assertive HR business partner influencing up to Partner level.
• Proven experience of developing effective processes and suggesting new ways of working.
• Comfortable with systems with an ability to make commercially based recommendations based on MI.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand. At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development. We’re in it together Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work. We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO. We’re looking forward to the future  At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions. We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better. #TJ-JB1#LI-JB1