Senior HR Advisor - 12 month fixed term contract

at  Aegon

Job Description Summary
Job Description
Senior HR Advisor
12-month fixed term contract
Location: Edinburgh (remote working can be considered, but must be able to attend the office if required)
Expected starting salary: £35,120 - £43,900
Closing date: 28th June 2024
Who we are:
Global Technology Services (GTS) is Aegon’s global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon’s businesses around the world.
From locations in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24000+ employees in the world. Our support consists of a wide range of centralized global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/dev/ops, and more.
We continue to maximize the value from having a clear digital and data technology platform strategy that extends our ecosystem, as an approach to digitization, enhancing customer experience, and improving operational efficiency.
All these teams work closely together to provide innovative and digital solutions as well as critical technology support. This is essential for enabling Aegon’s businesses around the globe to be innovative, digital, and competitive, efficient, and effective, and to provide the best solutions and customer experience for our customers and shareholders.
The Job:
The role of the HR function is to add significant value to the organisation by working in partnership with the business to ensure that appropriate business strategies are devised, planned, and implemented. The specific emphasis is on the construction of an organisation wide approach to the management of people to maximise the contribution and potential of all employees.
The Senior HR Advisor is a generalist role which will support processes and programs for GTS and the GTS HR team across all locations (Hungary, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States). The role will have responsibilities which cross multiple HR functions to include data & analytics, recruitment, compensation, talent management, and organisational change.
Due to the global nature of this role, there may be the expectation to work flexibly to attend meetings outside of standard UK office hours.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in HR projects related to Talent Management, Inclusion and Diversity, Organisational Change, and Employee Engagement. Keeping HR processes up-to-date and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by finding better ways to work
• Provide reporting and analysis on key data for HR projects and processes. Identifying situations where data can be used more effectively and ensuring data quality in core HR systems
• Support the recruiting processes; coaching managers on the recruitment procedure, ensuring that recruitment data, such as reward and compensation is maintained
• Provide advice, support, and guidance on a wide range of HR tasks to employees and managers throughout the business, to allow them to carry out administrative tasks in accordance with agreed legislative processes, procedures, and best practice

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Proficiency with MS Office packages including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Good planning and organisation capability, including the ability to document processes
• Experience working with data, ensure accuracy for reporting
• Comfort working with ambiguity coupled with a strong sense of curiosity
• Critical thinking skills to resolve problems and recommend solutions
• Flexibility to handle change and change processes in a fast-faced environment
• Work experience in a fast-paced HR environment with exposure to multiple functions within HR
• Supporting HR projects through to delivery
• Evidence of delivering a high standard of customer service
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with different types of people

It’d also be great – but not essential - if you’ve got:

• Experience with Workday or other HRIS tools
• Experience working with global teams

What’s in it for you?

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Cifas Short Fair Processing Notice
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting
www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity

• Participate in HR projects related to Talent Management, Inclusion and Diversity, Organisational Change, and Employee Engagement. Keeping HR processes up-to-date and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by finding better ways to work
• Provide reporting and analysis on key data for HR projects and processes. Identifying situations where data can be used more effectively and ensuring data quality in core HR systems
• Support the recruiting processes; coaching managers on the recruitment procedure, ensuring that recruitment data, such as reward and compensation is maintained
• Provide advice, support, and guidance on a wide range of HR tasks to employees and managers throughout the business, to allow them to carry out administrative tasks in accordance with agreed legislative processes, procedures, and best practic