Senior HR Advisor

Craft: HR & Business Support

Job Description:

At King and Activision Blizzard (AB), we create world-class games that bring fun and entertainment to millions. Just as we strive to deliver entertaining experiences to our players, we are equally committed to fostering a fun, supportive, and inclusive employee experience that sits at the heart of our culture and values.

Reporting to the Senior People Director, we are looking for a Senior HR Advisor to support our UK employees and managers across King, AB Go-to-Market, and Corporate Functions. Partnering closely with HR Partners in these areas, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping employee experience throughout the lifecycle from onboarding to performance and engagement while championing our culture and values every step of the way.

We’re looking for someone who is super organised, has great people skills, strong data management and process implementation experience and is passionate about providing great employee experience.

You will love supporting your client groups, providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday challenges and driving improvements that simplify our ways of working.

Your role in our Kingdom:

• Independently advise on HR policies, practices and local regulatory requirements to resolve manager and employee policy queries linked to core HR processes, absence, probation, performance management, reward, mobility and much more.
• Act as a trusted advisor to managers with employee relations issues from: performance management, disciplinaries and grievances to supporting our employees with sickness, maternity/paternity. You will have great listening skills, be objective, fair and offer advice and feedback ensuring the employee experience continuously lives up to our culture and values
• Maintains awareness of local labour laws that may impact the UK. Owns policies - takes an active role in updating local policies and educating managers. Works with peers and legal to update our intranet pages as needed.
• Own the management information for your function(s) ensuring it is reliable, relevant, and up to date, enabling leadership to make the right decisions. This will include analysing resource data such as turnover, retention, new hires, compensation, productivity and capability. Ensuring that resourcing, talent, succession plan and employees records are accurate and up to date and that we are pulling insights and recommendations from these that support both our business and people objectives.
• You will own the maintenance of data and employee changes in workday for your areas, looking at ways to continuously improve our practices here and ways of working with our global Employee Experience team
• Championing our values and culture you will support training programs around local and company wide: Performance Management and talent frameworks, DE&I strategies, ethical laws, standards and policies.
• Support with the resourcing of our future talent, working with the business and talent acquisition to be our values and potential check for junior recruitment of individual contributors, interns and other development schemes.
• You will support local onboarding and partner with managers to ensure the onboarding of our new employees over their first 90 days lives up to expectations
• You will support our Employee Engagement initiatives; from running focus groups, preparing communications, data collection and analysis to the coordination of team feedback and action plans to ensure we follow up on our commitments and continuously drive improvements
• Conducts exit interviews as applicable ensuring learning from these are captured and fed back into both people and business plans.
• Actively support other HR initiatives, projects, events, community days etc. This will include the development of project plans (i.e. actions, risks and issues, timelines) and supporting of local and functional projects to help improve our employee experience.
• Local regulatory administrative tasks as require
• Collaborate with the HR community to share best practices and knowledge to ensure consistency and quality of HR processes in different locations and business units.

Skills to create thrills:

• HR experience gained in a HR Advisory role, with hands-on experience of managing end to end HR people processes. You will be professional, credible, and responsive
• Strong advisory skills and knowledge and experience of applying local employment law.
• Employee relations experience
• Experience of interpreting and applying HR policies and procedures with the ability to identify potential ER issues.
• Thorough understanding of local payroll and general understanding of tax implications of compensation and benefits and their related risks
• Experience managing multiple activities and collaborating with others to get the job done.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational and excellent time management skills.
• Strong experience of data analysis, management, pulling of insights and recommendations from this. Actively listens to the business on improvements that could be made to the metrics.
• Seeks new ways to improve HR processes and outcomes and contribute to process improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders, employees, and HR peers to ensure effective team collaboration and an enhanced customer/employee experience.
• Sound judgement and decision making, with the ability to identify and resolve problems, provide solutions, and take necessary actions to prevent them from developing in future.
• Appreciation and understanding of the need for confidentiality and discretion in dealing with any people related activities. Works with employees affected by changes to explain rationale and reinforce the need to change.
• Excellent IT skills – particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team.

Bonus skills:

• CIPD level qualification.
• Experience of using HR systems such as Workday.
• Experience with using case management systems.
• Ability to gather internal HR metrics and present them in a useful way.
• Basic understanding of project management methodology.