HR Advisor (EMEA & APAC)

Who Are We?

Bottomline is at the forefront of digital transformation. We are a growing global market leader uniquely equipped to address the changing needs of how businesses pay and get paid. Our culture of Working with and for each other enables us to delight our customers. We empower our teams to think like owners driving customer satisfaction, helping them grow their business and win in their markets.

Culture and Values

We are a team of people who are strongly committed to maintain our fantastic culture, and ensuring our values and principles are lived out daily. We share ideas, innovate together and support each other personally and professionally in order to delight our customers! Working collaboratively with customers, partners and each other, we achieve a common goal of exceeding customer expectations

Role Summary

We are looking for an HR Advisor to innovate, win and grow with us in Theale, UK!

The purpose of this role is to partner with the Business Partners in an advisory capacity and manage all employee relations matters across Bottomline (EMEA & APAC). Handling cases with sensitivity and pragmatism to maintain a commercial focus, while ensuring strong support for all team members is an essential part of this role. This role is accountable for legal compliance including any mitigation against any potential employment risks and providing advice upon commercial solutions. Further accountabilities involve business change projects such as organisational design restructures, redundancies and mergers and acquisitions including TUPE transfers.

How you'll contribute:

• Developing a progressive approach to managing employee relations
• End to end case management
• Probation
• Sickness absence
• Performance improvement
• Disciplinaries & grievances
• Collective and individual consultation processes
• Providing advice, support and guidance to all levels of the organisation
• Building collateral to support ER activity e.g. letter templates and process flows
• Upskilling people managers to improve capability including facilitating training and development sessions
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders including Legal, HR, TA, Finance and others as required
• External liaison and engagement with relevant providers such as Occupational Health and ACAS
• Undertaking and implementing due diligence for people changes
• Risk evaluation to ensure cases are handled appropriately for all parties
• Accurate and timely record keeping and reporting on ER metrics
• Supporting Business Partners with planning and implementation of organisational changes addressing the commercial and people impact
• Ad-hoc project management

What will make you successful:

• Deep understanding and experience with a wide range of ER cases
• Good knowledge of employment law in Europe (particularly UK and Switzerland) including TUPE
• Good commercial awareness
• Persuasive communication and influencing skills
• The ability to organise, prioritise, self-manage time and work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, producing highly detailed and quality work
• An analytical approach, always looking to find improvements and efficiencies
• Strong Excel, Word and Outlook skills
• Adherence to GDPR, highly confidential, sensitive with extreme professionalism
• Experience with Ceridian is preferable
• CIPD qualified or equivalent qualification

You'll love Bottomline because in everything we do we seek to delight our customers and we are passionate about building a company of which we can all be proud, and this starts with building amazing teams filled with team members that challenge you every day.

Bottomline Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All aspects of employment are based on merit, and we strive to delight our customers with a team of highly motivated and talented people that represent a diverse set of identities and backgrounds.

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