HR Administrator

About the role
As a People & Culture Assistant, you are a core part of the UK People & Culture team. You know our systems well and can put your finger on information when needed. You are responsive and can answer our people’s questions in an efficient, accurate and timely manner. You’ll need to be engaged and proactive when it comes to our systems and processes with a focus on continuous improvement. You will be energised by problem solving and passionate about developing long term solutions. This is a very busy role so we need somebody who thrives in a super busy environment and can get their head down to work through workload quickly. Ideally you will have some previous experience of offering advice on topics such as absence, flexible working requests and less complex performance matters. You will thrive off getting involved in the work around you and will enjoy learning and developing yourself at any opportunity. You will be the point of contact for our people queries and our people processes such as;

• Be responsible for maintaining all the queries that come into our HR inboxes and ticketing systems. This requires multi-tasking ability and a natural flare for working at pace as we have multiple communication channels and busy systems
• You will be a super user of all of our systems, self-learning will be key to this and developing your knowledge on the job.
• Providing data to your colleagues, people leaders and the wider People & Culture team as required.
• Overseeing the UK’s absence processes including maternity, paternity and other forms of leave. Managing these processes and communicating proactively with our People Managers and colleagues.
• Providing 1st line HR support to all of our UK based colleagues for less complex queries.
• Being a key member of our organisation, with a desire to meet all of our colleagues and get to know them – you will be visible and present.
• Process improvement and supporting the team by working on key projects will be part of the role.

About You

In the People and Culture team we are collaborative and work together towards common goals and outcomes. Our team need to be leading the way with when it comes to supporting our employee lifecycle, data management and being involved in every team to really support the growth of our talent. In this role, we need somebody with great intuition, thrives in a busy environment and has excellent relationship building and people skills. You will be a natural problem solver – being able to truly get to the bottom of an issue and proactively solve it.

We want you to be brave and dare to challenge the status quo, but also be empathetic and caring as kindness is at the heart of what we do.

• You’ll be adaptable and able to pivot quickly as the business continues to grow and evolve.
• Previous demonstrable experience of working in a very busy HR role (perhaps within a busy retail or global business), managing stakeholders with appropriate behaviours
• Prior experience and knowledge of HR processes and systems, and/or business systems.
• Attention to detail, time management and working on your own initiative will be essential.
• Able to build positive and effective relationships
• Experience in a fast paced, moving environment such as retail, tech growth, PE/VC backed organisations– this role is buzzy, requires fast communication and ability to pivot daily.
• Able to travel to our UK offices in London, Manchester and Edinburgh when and if required.

This is a Part Time (4 days per week), Fixed Term contract for an initial 3 month period with the possibility of extension.

 Valtech är en digital partner som med kreativitet, teknik och lättrörliga arbetssätt gör våra kunder bättre.

Vi samlar olika specialister under ett och samma tak och ungefär två tredjedelar av våra konsulter har sina rötter i tekniken medan en tredjedel fokuserar på strategi, upplevelse och design. Vår kompetensbredd gör att vi har muskler att hjälpa våra kunder med ett helhetsperspektiv – från idéstadie till lansering, och även med att vidareutveckla tjänsterna därefter. 

Våra medarbetare kommer från världens alla hörn, vilket innebär att vi kan ta lärdom av varandra och du kan alltid hitta någon att connecta med och lära dig mer av. Valtech grundades i Frankrike 1993 och har funnits i Sverige sedan 1999. Globalt har Valtech verksamheter i totalt 15 länder (45 kontor) och 3 500+ anställda medarbetare globalt. I Sverige är vi cirka 280 anställda som sitter i fantastiska lokaler i Kungliga Myntet vid Stadshuset i Stockholm samt på Kyrkogatan i Göteborg.

Hurdana är vi då, vi som jobbar på Valtech? Som individer är vi nog ganska olika - från vår erfarenhet vet vi att homogena grupper inte alltid presterar bäst. Och i grupp arbetar vi nästan alltid! Även om vi på Valtech är olika som människor är det desto mer som förenar oss. Först och främst är vi passionerade i det vi gör.

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