BDO Hiring for Assistant ER Manager – Human Resources – London at London Full Time

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

Our biggest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our full 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 broaden your horizons

As a fast-growing ER function, we are looking for a high potential, high energy visionary ER Assistant Manager to join our passionate team.

Reporting to the Employee Relations Manager you will support and provide expert ER advice to our HR generalist, wider HR teams and assigned business areas, enabling high quality professional advice and guidance to the business on all ER issues, people policies and formal processes. Just as importantly, you will also have the opportunity to develop your own skills and expertise. In this role you’ll also:

Provide commercial support and advice to HRG, People Managers, and business stakeholders at all levels on sensitive ER matters including but not limited to, disciplinary, grievance, discrimination, contractual matters, restructures, capability, settlement agreements, policy support and other ER related matters.

Facilitate formal ER investigations ensuring a thorough and fair investigation process has been followed, ensuring legal and compliance obligations have been considered.

Analyse and assess the risks associated with individual cases, make recommendations, and liaise with the relevant stakeholders to drive remedial action.

Maintain a detailed understanding of current and imminent legislation to ensure compliance and best practice.

Liaison with HRM team to assess and analyse employee relations trends to provide meaningful insights and recommendations.

Play a key role in ongoing up-skilling and education of generalist and other HRD teams in legislative and best practice developments and requirements.

Support the development of ER Advisor and be a point of escalation for any technical ER queries.

Support in organisational change activity including redundancy and TUPE programmes

Research and liaison with external providers (networking groups and legal suppliers) to anticipate current best and future practice;

We’ll help you succeed

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with:

Experience of working in an employee relations and policy focused role, including extensive knowledge of employment law and proficient in application of business aligned solutions;

Experience of independently managing ER cases, with demonstrated behaviours and approach.

Proven experience as a credible and assertive subject mater expert influencing up to Partner level;

Proven experience of pragmatic application of business aligned ER solutions, together with supporting processes and procedures;

Proven experience of interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders;

Experience of training and coaching HR and business management teams, to share your knowledge and increase their capability; proven ability to deliver results through others in a large team;

Experience of reviewing and drafting of policies; effective problem solving and successful implementation and smooth running of solutions;

Experience of writing succinct reports and recommendation papers to senior stakeholders;

Fully CIPD qualified with a number of years PQE.

We’re in it together

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

25 days’ holiday;

access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;

life assurance cover;

income protection insurance.

That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:

buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;

add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;

enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;

enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms;

receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;

access childcare vouchers;

take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 6,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.

Are you ready to join them?