Employee Relations Adviser 12 months FTC

Division - Human Resources

Department - Employee Relations

Salary: National from £43,300 to £55,000 and London from £46,400 to £58,000 depending on skill and experience

About the FCA The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

Employee Relations The Employee Relations (ER) Team is responsible for providing end to end ER support and advice to managers and HRBPs on ER cases across the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), with oversight of applicable ER management reporting.

The ER team sits within the wider HR Policy & Delivery team, which also includes HR Advisory, HR Helpline, Payroll and Benefits.

What you will be doing

• Case management - facilitating complex ER cases, including but not limited to investigations, disciplinary hearings, absence, appeals, grievances and performance management
• Project management – providing professional, customer focused and commercial expert advice across the breadth of ER-related change projects such as business restructuring & redundancy and TUPE
• Litigation - liaising with and responding to ACAS early conciliation claims, and partnering with our external legal advisor in the preparation and defence of the occasional Employment Tribunal hearing
• Building working relationships – work with HRBPs, line managers and, where relevant, internal teams such as Legal, Risk & Compliance and Cyber & Information Resilience to resolve employee-related matters. Work with the Staff Consultative Committee, including where an employee has a companion during an ER case
• Management Information (MI) – contribute to the production of analytics (MI) on case volumes, insights and trends for HRBPs and the HR Senior Leadership Team, and assist in responding to Freedom of Information Requests, as required
• Ad-hoc ER project work - this may include providing ER advice and procuring employment law opinion on cross-function projects that may impact a number of employees
• Policy development and continuous process improvement - contribute to the evolution of ER policies and practices to comply with UK employment legislation and FCA/PSR requirements. This includes partnering on policy reviews and suggesting policy and process improvements based on experiences of cases and ER projects.  Support the culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the wider HR Policy & Delivery team, with an ongoing focus on controls. Be prepared to join cross-functional-teams in HR on proactive process/practices improvement, identification and innovation

What you will get from the role

An opportunity to work in a fast-paced, supportive, professional environment managing often high-profile and complex cases.

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Proven experience managing the breadth of ER casework in a complex environment including investigations, disciplinary hearings, absence management, appeals, grievances, performance management, business change and redundancy, and drafting and negotiating settlement agreements

Essential Criteria

• Exceptional communication and relationship management skills, ability to flex a personal style dependent on the audience
• Ability to identify and quantify risks and advise stakeholders accordingly
• Ability to influence and articulate arguments to gain business commitment
• Significant experience of managing the breadth of ER case work, including managing litigation and early conciliation COT3s
• Experience managing TUPE transfers
• Strong organisational, project management and analytical skills

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, minority ethnic, disabled, and neurodivergent candidates for our Senior Associate role.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• Private healthcare with Bupa 
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8%
• Life assurance
• Income protection

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.

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