Are you a confident, hands-on HR professional, looking for an opportunity to partner and support a group of business clients at Thomson Reuters on a fixed term contract? Thomson Reuters is a global enterprise Company, requiring HR Advisor to work together in a cohesive and collaborative manner to drive the strategic people agenda.
We are looking for HR Advisor is responsible for providing specialist support to all employees via email and/or phone channels or face to face in relation to their aligned business groups. You'll act as the HR service delivery first point of contact for employees, offering them guidance and answers to their queries. You will have ownership of an area of expertise (Immigration/Visa, Sickness/Occupational Health or Leave of Absences/Family Friendly) according to the team's business unit remit. You will support some UKI projects or contribute to local UKI initiatives aimed at improving our Service Delivery function when required.
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Please note, this role is a maternity cover.
About the Role
As our HR Advisor, you will:
- Provide generic guidance to managers and employees on local policies and procedures.
- Act as a knowledge expert in a specific field, either Immigration, Sickness & Occupational Health or leave of absences & family friendly policies and will partner closely with the UKI People Face to Face team within said specific field.
- Take ownership of low to medium Employee Relations cases, being supported by the local ER Specialist.
- Work with the HR Partner team to design and deliver training on HR Policies, Procedures and Workday to improve Manager and Employee capability.
- Act as the centre of expertise for benefits related queries.
- Assist with drawing up redundancy documentation where volume dictates.
- Respond to queries regarding the Workday system (e.g. system navigation).
- Liaise and partner closely with our payroll team to ensure changes are affected in a timely manner.
- Contribute to elements of HR projects and input into actions and overall objectives.
- File into employee files and ensure continued compliance in line with Data Protection legislation.
About You
To be our HR Advisor, you will likely have:
- At least 1 or 2 years as a HR Generalist (preferably in HR Shared Service function)
- Contributing to HR initiatives in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment
- Business, HR, or relevant university degree (desired)
- Good level of IT skills with Microsoft office in Word and Excel
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Able to multi-task and prioritize workload as well as helping others.
- Interview and questioning people effectively, identifying and evaluating risks,
- Implementing, reinforcing policy, procedure or legal obligations.
- Knowledge and prior experience using Workday will be a plus (but not essential)
The deadline for applications is Sunday 9th March 2025.
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What's in it For You?
Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you'll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:
- Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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