Employee Relations Adviser at BDO UK

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.