BDO UK
Employee Relations Assistant Manager-12 month FTC

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We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.
We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.
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Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.
We’ll help you succeed
Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.
You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.
The HR team are responsible for approximately 7,000 people and therefore the ER Team are instrumental in the support and delivery of ER advice across business. As a fast-growing ER function, we are looking for a high potential, high energy visionary ER Assistant Manager to join our passionate team.
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In this busy and rewarding role you will be responsible for providing successful solutions to the employee relations issues based on employment law, expertise and business knowledge. This role reports into the ER Manager.
You'll be someone with:
- Experience of working in an employee relations and policy focused role, including extensive knowledge of employment law and proficient in application of business aligned solutions;
- Experience of independently managing ER cases, with demonstrated behaviours and approach.
- Proven experience as a credible and assertive subject mater expert influencing up to Partner level;
- Proven experience of pragmatic application of business aligned ER solutions, together with supporting processes and procedures;
- Proven experience of interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders;
- Experience of training and coaching HR and business management teams, to share your knowledge and increase their capability; proven ability to deliver results through others in a large team;
- Experience of reviewing and drafting of policies; effective problem solving and successful implementation and smooth running of solutions;
- Experience of writing succinct reports and recommendation papers to senior stakeholders;
- Fully CIPD qualified
At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.
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Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.
Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.
We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.
We’re looking forward to the future
At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.
We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.
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