HR Assistant

HR Admin Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for basic HR employee related queries
• Assisting with recruitment support for hiring manager as needed (job description, job advertisements, interview scheduling) using a consistent and compliant approach to issue of candidate communications, offer letters, employment contracts, other employee documentation coordinating
• Managing employee life cycle processes and procedures from onboarding to offboarding
• Maintaining HR documentation and employee records in compliance with UK employment law and GDPR
• Management of HRIS platform, ensuring data accuracy, functionality, user access, new user training, permission setting and trouble shooting.
• Conduct regular audit checks to ensure HRIS documentation/data implementation accuracy
• Partner with HRD to draft/update and implement HR Policies, and assist in maintaining employee handbook
• Monitor and ensure compliance with statutory requirements for example right to work checks
• Benefits administration- pension, PHI and other

Education Level and Experience:

Essential:

• You will have previous experience in a similar role, carrying out Office and HR administrative tasks for a in a fast-paced, small start-up environment, ideally in the life science industry
• You will have the ability to work on your own initiative, without supervision, effectively managing
• your time and completing tasks in order of priority
• You will have experience of working with HRIS/ HR systems
• You don't need to be fully HR qualified, but we're ideally looking for a CIPD qualification, working towards qualification or qualified by experience.
• You will have great attention to detail, be highly organised, accurate and have the ability to prioritise workload and achieve deadlines.
• Having integrity and handling sensitive information with confidentiality.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with HiBob HRIS
• Office management and client facing experience
• A familiarity with scientific terminology