About the role:
Lords Group Trading have a great opportunity for an experienced HR Administrator to join the team in our Merchanting Division. Being people-centric, you will thrive in a team environment and enjoy being able to provide practical HR advice and administrative support to our colleagues.
You will be an outgoing and friendly person who shares in our belief that everyone should have a fair chance to discover who they are and what they can become.
This is a hybrid role based in London NW10.
Hours: 35 hour week
Salary: circa £25k depending on experience
Responsibilities:
- Managing the starters and leavers administration process
- Issuing changes to contracts, ensuring they have been signed and returned
- Ensuring all colleague data is up to date and relevant documents have been issued and uploaded to Cascade (HRIS)
- Ensuring colleagues’ files are up to date and documents filed accordingly
- Preparing probation invitation letters and probation extensions letters
- Issuing information to colleagues regarding any relevant changes i.e. pension auto enrolment, HR law
- Support the arranging of training, venue bookings, travel etc as required
- Running weekly and ad-hoc reports for managers e.g. overtime, sick absence, starters, leavers
- Support the arranging of interviews as required
- Requesting references and liaising with line manager
- Payroll preparation before submission deadline; entering new starters, processing changes and chasing managers for overtime approvals.
What about you?
To apply for this role, you will need:
- Previous experience in an HR role, with an understanding of the HR function of a business.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
- Diplomacy, tact and the ability to deal with confidential information or difficult situations.
- Good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Experience of Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel (v-look ups & pivot tables) and PowerPoint.
- Experience of using Cascade HRIS is an advantage.
About the Company:
Lords was founded over 35 years ago as a family business and has grown to a business operating from 48 sites with a combined turnover of more than £450m – a much bigger family! We are principally focused on the growing repairs, maintenance and improvement market. Our main clients are local tradesmen, hardware stores, plumbing and heating merchants and construction companies, that use Lords’ deep product knowledge to source and procure a wide variety of building products.
Lords Group is an equal opportunity employer that recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion. Our workplace is for everyone - the more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking. So, bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background and come and join the Lords family.