HR Administrator

Job Title: HR Administrator

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire; hybrid working (2 days from home)

Salary: Starting salary in the region of£26,500 per annum plus discretionary bonus

Benefits:  Up to 39 days paid leave + financial support for professional study of the CIPD + access to a cycle-to-work scheme, discount portal and Employee Assistance Programme + Life Assurance + pension + monthly team lunch

Job type: Permanent, Full-time, Hybrid working pattern (on completion of induction)

Beststart HR supports businesses spanning the country with all their HR needs specifically tailored to their business and industry. We predominantly work with small to medium companies with 10-250 employees across a wide range of industries, including finance, creative, professional services, and charities.

HR consultancy offers the ideal environment to start your career in HR, developing and mastering human resources skills. Unlike in-house HR roles, the array of client challenges regularly draws on skills from all the HR disciplines. Consequently, experience of challenging situations is built up at a quicker pace in a supportive environment.

Beststart is a welcoming and hardworking team of professionals. Our Consultants, Advisers and Administrators have the drive to provide the best and often innovative HR solutions. We realise our workplace is fast paced, requiring passion, dedication and energy. We are serious about our team's welfare and, so, in addition to competitive salaries, benefits and their 28-day statutory holiday entitlement, all Beststart employees receive up to a further 11 Wellbeing Days to enjoy off work, which covers our Christmas closure and ensures the team have one long weekend most months.

The Role:

Beststart has an opening for an individual looking to enter HR with a desire to master the breadth of HR disciplines. We provide regular feedback, structured training and a clear career framework starting with our Administrators all the way to Senior HR Consultant.

Our HR Administrators learn quickly from shadowing and supporting our seasoned consultants, seeing HR implemented with a commercial mindset. They work with our HR Consultants supporting them on larger consultancy projects and retained services. In addition, they will have direct client contact and, once up and running, a degree of autonomy with responsibility for their own HR Administration clients. Alongside learning and developing first class HR skills, they will be exposed to and learning and developing skills including pitching, account management and managing client relationships.

Our HR Administrators work from our modern office in Stevenage, their homes and on our client sites. We have a hybrid working pattern; however, being flexible and able to work across all these locations is essential to enable us to keep our team dynamics. The travel to client premises may involve regular commuting to locations that are usually within 1.5 hours of Stevenage but may, from time to time and for the limited period of a particular project, be further afield or include overnight stays.

The Candidate:

We would consider candidates who want to embark or who have already started their careers in HR.

The successful candidates will be:

• Open to ideas and try new approaches.
• Prepared to work independently and as part of a team.
• Comfortable pushing back when necessary and willing to offer an opinion or feedback.
• Outward going and enjoy developing professional relationships with both colleagues and clients.
• Demonstrate a passion for and the determination to develop a career in human resources.
• Possess good time management skills.
• Confident with technology and competent using Microsoft Teams, Adobe, Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Be prepared to work across a range of HR Systems
• Educated to degree level or equivalent and have good academic grades.
• An HR qualification would be a bonus but is not essential.
• A UK driving licence and access to a car as not all our clients are accessible by public transport.

We should not forget to give a mention to our friendly Great Dane, DJ, who is a welcome distraction for the team, when they need a break or when he decides it's time to play!

Overseas candidates who require a visa will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa's currently, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK.

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