Sewell Wallis
HR Administrator - 12 Month Contract
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Sewell Wallis are delighted to be recruiting for a HR Administrator to join a highly regarded international organisation, based in central Leeds, West Yorkshire, on a 12-month fixed-term contract basis. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative and fast-paced HR team, providing administrative support across the full employee lifecycle. You'll work closely with experienced HR professionals, gaining exposure to a wide range of HR processes while playing a key role in ensuring an efficient and high-quality HR service.
What will you be doing?
- Providing administrative support across the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, contractual changes, secondments, maternity, leave of absence, probation, and offboarding.
- Preparing employment documentation, including contractual amendments, employment letters, and financial references.
- Maintaining accurate employee records and ensuring all HR documentation is processed in line with GDPR requirements.
- Updating HR systems with employee information, changes, and new starter details.
- Liaising with Payroll regarding new starters, leavers, and employee changes.
- Preparing and issuing business communications relating to employee movements and organizational updates.
- Maintaining HR trackers, spreadsheets, and reporting to support operational activity.
- Working closely with HR colleagues to ensure tasks are completed accurately and within agreed service levels.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to streamline HR processes.
- Responding to HR queries professionally, ensuring an excellent level of customer service is delivered at all times.
- Managing multiple priorities while meeting deadlines, KPIs, and service level agreements.
- Supporting the wider HR team with additional administration duties and projects as required.
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What skills are we looking for?
- Previous administration experience within a busy office environment.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Confident using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- A proactive and positive approach with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
- Strong customer service skills with a focus on delivering an exceptional internal stakeholder experience.
- Ability to work independently while contributing positively to a collaborative team environment.
The following would also be desirable, but are not essential:
- Previous HR administration experience.
- Experience using HR systems such as Workday, PeopleSoft, or similar HRIS platforms.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems.
- Experience working within a professional services or corporate environment.
What's on offer?
- 12-month fixed-term contract with a highly respected international organisation.
- Hybrid working arrangement.
- 35-hour working week.
- Opportunity to gain exposure across the full employee lifecycle.
- Supportive, collaborative HR team.
- Varied role with excellent exposure to HR operations within a global business.
- Opportunity to build valuable HR experience within a fast-paced professional environment.
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If you're an organised administrator with excellent attention to detail and are looking to develop your HR career within a respected global organisation, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply now or get in touch with Jemima Vibert for more information.
To apply, please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry. We offer permanent, temporary, and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources, and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
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