Employee Relations Adviser at BDO UK

We’ll broaden your horizons

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.

Reporting to the Employee Relations Manager. Supports and provides expert ER advice, tools and guidance to generalist, other HRD teams and business area, enabling high quality professional advice and guidance to the business on all ER issues, people policies and formal processes.

You'll be someone with:

Essential

• Strong ER generalist experience within a relevant environment
• Proven experience and ability to set up and support ER meetings; being able to take proficient notes and provide on the spot advice. 
• Willingness to travel across UK to support cases as and when required.
• Proven experience of pragmatic and commercial application of business aligned ER solutions
• Good knowledge of employment legislation and external best practice trends.
• Strong understanding of how ER matters impact commercial operations and vice versa.
• Proven experience of interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders
• Ability and confidence to understand when to escalate more complex issues to ER Manager. 

Preferred

• CIPD qualified (ER specific)
• Project management experience. 
• Experience of writing outcome letters, succinct reports and recommendation papers to senior stakeholders.

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.