Universally Speaking
HR Assistant (Fixed-term)
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About Us
Universally Speaking is a pre-eminent, end-to-end, game services provider for the global gaming market with sites in UK, Madrid and Cebu. Gaming is our passion and our primary focus. We are multi-award winning in Localisation and Quality Assurance, working across all time zones. We work closely with our clients and pride ourselves on our ability to become an extension of their internal teams.
With over 25 years of experience working the games industry as sector-specific specialist, Universally Speaking is one of the industries most trusted game service providers. We are recommended by the industry, for the industry.
We are continuously recognised by the industry for excellence. We have won the highly prestigious TIGA games award for Best Services Provider 2019 and the Best QA and Localisation Service Provider in 2020.
Role Overview
We are looking to recruit an experienced HR Assistant for our sites in The UK under a Fixed-term contract. They will join a small HR team in this growing fast paced business.
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Key Accountabilities
- Role model the Universally Speaking Values and Behaviours treating employees as Adults, Individuals and Customers
- Act as a first point of contact for both internal and external enquiries - proactively responding to all enquiries and escalating as appropriate via outlook
- Delivering a great employee experience and support service
- Supporting the onboarding experience with new starters with Inductions, preparing assets and checking right to work documentation
- Assisting People Operations with administrative duties and transactional work.
- Support with time and attendance and employee data management.
The Successful Candidate will:
- Maintain records and ensure electronic HR files are kept up to date
- Prepare offer letters and contracts of employment
- Input and maintain information on various HR systems e.g. Sickness records, probation, starters, leavers and changes to employment
- Complete monthly Payroll amends
- Carry out compliance audits
- Recruitment and administration Checking Right to work, providing references, medical questionnaires
- Support HR Operations Lead as required
- Ad hoc tasks and projects as required
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Measures of Performance
- Accurate Data and timely audits
- All transactional HR/people services are delivered within agreed SLAs
- Accurate on time delivery of Payroll with minimal to 0 errors
- Key project deliverable and benefits within agreed timescales
Requirements
- Background in HR Operations (Essential)
- Experience of HR Information Systems
- Strong Attention to details
- Great organisation skills
- Strong time management
- Excellent communication skills (Fluent in English)
- Some experience in administration/data entry
- Attention to detail and quality when working with data
- Knowledge and use of Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive, Excel, Outlook preferred
- Working towards or attained CIPD or Human Resources qualification preferred
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