HR Assistant
At a glance
Junior HR Business Partner & Generalist role at Turner & Townsend. Leeds · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate £35,000–£50,000 across the United Kingdom.
Turner & Townsend has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Coordinate new-hire onboarding, checking UK work eligibility documents and sending offer letters through DocuSign
- Keep digital employee files current and process departures within monthly payroll deadlines
- Prepare letters for contract changes and update Workday records for employee, cost-centre and manager changes
- Handle routine questions about family leave and flexible working, and help improve HR processes
- Support HR colleagues with presentations, meeting notes and everyday administrative work
What you bring
- You have worked as an HR administrator or assistant and bring strong accuracy and attention to detail
- You understand UK right-to-work checks and can manage varied, high-volume tasks against deadlines
- You are confident using HR and IT systems, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word and SharePoint
Who this fits
This junior role suits someone organised and detail-focused who can take ownership of assigned work and contribute flexibly as part of a team. The position is based in Leeds, with hybrid working envisaged; you must be able to work from your designated home office when required.
From the employer
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
We have an opportunity to join our dynamic and fast paced HR team as a HR Assistant. The successful individual will play a key role in supporting our team with a particular focus on the transactional elements of HR, ensuring accuracy and compliance across a range of HR activities, as well as supporting wider HR teams.
Duties will include:
- Managing the full onboarding process for new starters within SLA and payroll deadline. This includes ensuring right to work in the UK documentation is accurate, issuing of the offer via DocuSign and undertaking all onboarding activities to ensure the onboarding process is managed in an efficient manner. Creating and maintaining employee electronic records.
- Managing the offboarding process for all leavers working within monthly payroll deadline.
- Managing all changes to terms and conditions of employment, including UK transfers as required. This includes issuing of letters and confirming to employees changes to their terms and conditions.
- Ensuring the HR System is updated with relevant employee changes including cost centre moves, changes to terms and conditions, line manger changes.
- Manage and respond to day-to-day administration queries including maternity, paternity, and flexible working processes.
- Providing support and taking the lead on projects including process improvements.
- Providing support to wider HR teams to include creation of PowerPoint presentations, note taking in HR meetings and support with day-to-day activities.
Hybrid working patterns are envisaged but this may vary in accordance with the requirements of Turner & Townsend or clients. Candidates must be able to work at their designated home office as required.
Qualifications
- Previous experience of working as a HR Administrator or HR Assistant with excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- Previous experience of Workday would be adventageous
- An understanding of Right to Work.
- Ability to take ownership of assigned work and tasks.
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills being able to manage a varied high volume workload ensuring deadlines are met.
- Confident in the use of IT systems and HR systems.
- Confident in the use of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and SharePoint
- Strong communications skills
- An enthusiastic team player who actively contributes in a flexible and adaptable manner.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
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