About the job

Equifind are partnering with a real estate firm with ambition, and our People team is growing to match it. You'll work closely with the Head of HR and get stuck into most of what HR does day to day: answering employee queries, running onboarding, supporting payroll, helping managers through tricky conversations, and pulling together reports when leadership needs them. Some weeks that's calm and predictable. Other weeks you're juggling three things at once. Either way, you'll have someone to lean on and real room to grow into the role.

We ask for 4 days a week in the office. This job works better when people can grab you at your desk, and honestly, most of it is easier to do well when you're around the team in person.

This is a role for someone who's organised, people-first, and energised by variety: one moment you're guiding a manager through a tricky conversation, the next you're onboarding a new agent, the next you're pulling together the numbers for a people report. If that sounds like your kind of week, keep reading.

• What you'll be doing: Answer HR questions first, onboard new starters, sort out contracts and right-to-work checks, keep records up to date, and handle absence and leave requests properly. Nothing glamorous, but it matters, and people notice when it's done well.
• Support payroll by working with our external payroll provider to make sure people are paid correctly and on time. Manage our benefits providers and answer the questions that come up around them.
• Guide managers through probation issues, performance concerns and absence cases, the everyday stuff that needs a level head. Know what you can handle yourself and when to loop in the Head of HR.
• Keep our policies current with UK and US employment law, working alongside the Head of HR rather than solo.
• Support audits when they come around and handle employee data the way we should.
• Coordinate recruitment for assigned roles – scheduling interviews, keeping candidates in the loop, and helping with offers – rather than owning the whole hiring function.
• Keep our HR systems accurate and pull together people metrics when leadership wants a view of what's going on. Flag it when you spot a process that could be smoother.

• What we're looking for:You've worked as an HR Advisor or in a similar generalist role and know your way around the basics.
• Decent grasp of UK employment law. If you've had any exposure to US HR practices, even better.
• Some payroll experience, ideally working alongside an external provider.
• You can give managers sensible first-line ER advice and know when something needs escalating.
• Comfortable in HR systems and careful with data.
• You notice when something's inefficient and you actually do something about it, rather than just complaining.
• Good attention to detail
• You communicate well, whether that's with a graduate on their first day or a senior director.
• You're happy being in the office 4 days a week.

If most of that sounds like you, apply now.