HR Advisor - Germany

Purpose of the Job

The HR Advisor role sits within the HR BP team and will add value to our successful business by providing effective generalist HR advice to Germany and European Country Managers with varying levels of people management experience.  The role sits within the HR Team, reporting directly into HRBP for EMEA. 

The HR Advisor is responsible for assisting in day to day HR activities supporting our offices in Dusseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart and also across EMEA.  They will provide customer focused, comprehensive and pragmatic generalist HR advice in line with company policies and procedures and employment legislation aligned to local legislation. Supporting managers with their strategic people matters and helping to continue the growth of the HR function, they will actively contribute to a number of projects in line with our People Strategy.  

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Client Leads across DACH region and EMEA on employee relations and employee development.
• Work with new employees to ensure they are fully inducted into our business during and up to completion of their successful probation period. 
• Support hiring managers through strong relationships with our recruitment partners, ensuring we support the process commercially and professionally from offer stages through to through to completion of probationary review.
• Provide a first class HR consultancy service to line managers by ensuring compliance with policy, procedures and legal requirements, managing employee relation issues.
• Provide guidance on areas such as performance reviews, absence management, maternity leave, liaising with other departments/specialists where appropriate.  
• Support business and HR projects, leading where appropriate.
• Support the performance management and objective setting process for the business, advising on performance improvement plans and personal development plan initiatives.  
• Develop and deliver learning solutions where appropriate
• Assist in TUPE transfers and the implementation of new business
• Provide a HR advice to line managers and employees by;
  • Ensuring compliance with organisational policy, procedures and legal requirements
  • Coaching managers to develop a best practice approach to people management
• Provide general administrative support as required for areas such as starters, movers, leavers, benefits, visa applications, etc 
• Contribute to the review, design and implementation of HR processes, procedures and policies as required and in line with current legislation and best practice

Knowledge, Skills + Experience

•    Demonstrable record of general operational HR experience 

•    CIPD qualified – part or full, local market equivalent 

• Strong knowledge and understanding of German employment law, EMEA exposure an advantage.

•    Self-motivated, able to multi-task, priorities and work accurately.

•    Able to build strong working relationships and gain respect of all levels of employee

•    Professional, inspires confidence with people

•    Confident communicator both in writing and verbally

•    Creative but practical approach to problem solving

•    Able to confidently influence individuals when required 

•    Flexible and capable of working with multiple projects at the same time

•    Confident, tenacious, resilient and enthusiastic

•    PC literate, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and HR database.

•    Numerate with a sound understanding of financial principles and procedure

•    Professional services industry and/or multi-site background, an advantage