Senior People Advisor

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

As one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive. We are a fast-growing firm with big ambitions -- we have a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally. This vision touches everything we do, motivating and inspiring us to become better every day. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then RSM is the place for you.

Make an Impact at RSM UK

As one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive. We are a fast-growing firm with big ambitions -- we have a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally. This vision touches everything we do, motivating and inspiring us to become better every day. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then RSM is the place for you.

Working as a key member of the People team, you will be responsible for managing more junior members of the advisory team. You will provide a commercial HR service, through managing the HR service delivery and support all elements of the employee experience from joining RSM, to going on family leave, to leaving, and everything in between. You will also work closely with the People Advisory Manager to strategically support a regional a regional area of the business, working on engagement, sense of belonging, wellbeing, diversity & inclusion and other initiatives. You will also contribute to the ongoing development of the National People Team function, through working with your colleagues in other advisory teams, identifying opportunities and developing action plans and delivery. There will also be the opportunity to work on strategic national projects.

The remit of the role will focus on proactive HR support and advice to your client groups, including completion of the annual bonus and salary review processes, dealing with employee relations issues as they arise, providing wellbeing and absence management support, provision of management information / analysis and delivery of learning and development initiatives.

You’ll make an impact by:

In this role you will provide generalist HR advice in a number of areas including:

• Partner Support and Line Management Development: providing support and guidance to key stakeholders, department heads and line managers to help them manage their areas of responsibility and its on-going development. Undertaking line management coaching sessions (both individual and group) regarding performance management, grievances, disciplinary, absence management, coaching skills, appraisals etc. You will also work with National Training contacts to provide feedback regarding individual/team training needs analysis and action plans having regular meetings with Regional Training contacts to discuss trends and outstanding needs.
• Compensation and Benefits: managing the annual bonus and salary review processes for your client groups, reporting into the People Advisory Manager and HR Business Partner. You will utilise our benchmarking and other market rate information to provide guidance to line managers, reporting any trends and market movements to the Reward team. You will ensure that all correspondence and related administration is managed in a timely manner in liaison with the central People Operations Team. You will ensure that all offers of employment/contractual terms are in line with our national policy and will undertake any local actions in relation to the harmonisation of terms and conditions.
• Employee Relations: providing advice and guidance to partners and line mangers to support them in dealing with difficult performance issues up to settlement agreement stage (with approval from the People Advisory Manager). You will ensure that legal and RSM requirements are met, and that risk is managed appropriately and commercially. You will undertake investigations in relation to grievances, disciplinaries and capability matters, or will attend such meetings where appropriate. You will also take full responsibility for any restructures/redundancy programmes within your areas of the business.
• Recruitment and Selection: working closely with Talent Acquisition leads for your areas of the business in relation to experienced hire recruitment.
• Wellbeing and absence support: You will provide advice and support to line managers and members of staff in relation to mental health and other absence issues. You will be involved in complex occupational health/potential PHI cases.
• Appraisals: responsibility for attending and managing appraisal moderation meetings for your areas of the business, ensuring that appraisal grading distribution is fair and appropriate. You will also provide advice to line managers in relation to giving constructive feedback, coaching, and setting appropriate objectives.
• Policies and Procedures: providing advice to the business on the application of all RSM policies and procedures, and involvement in amending/updating our policies where appropriate.
• Projects: involvement in national HR projects as appropriate. To lead or take part in local projects as appropriate.
• Induction and exit procedures: ensuring that an appropriate induction is carried out for every joiner, and that they also receive a 6-8 week and 3-month review. Conducting exit interviews for more senior roles, or in contentious situations, as and when required.
• Reporting: making full use of the HR systems to deliver regular reporting to the business in relation to holiday usage, retention, exit interview feedback, /trends, absence trends, etc,
• Family leave – providing guidance to individuals, partners and line managers regarding maternity, paternity, parental and shared parental leave. Promoting the use of share parental leave amongst all employees.
  
  
  

What we are looking for:

We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Here’s what we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:

A minimum of 3 years’ experience of working at People Advisor level in a generalist role (essential

Supervisory Or Line Management Experience (essential)

Experience of investigating disciplinary and grievance cases; conducting redundancy and general consultations (essential)

Experience Of Working Independently From Line Manager (essential)

Ability to liaise with and manage stakeholders at all levels (essential)

Experience of completing salary review process (preferable)

Experience of professional or financial services environment (preferable)

Experience of working in a multi-sited environment/role (preferable)

CIPD qualified or working towards qualification (preferable)

Excellent organisational skills

Excellent client service skills

Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken

Passionate about HR

What we can offer you:

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That’s why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

• Hybrid and flexible working (2-3 days per week in the office)
• 26 days holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days)
• Lifestyle, health, and wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our inhouse talent development team
  
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM

At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That's why we're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.