Employee Relations Adviser 12 months FTC

Requirements of the role

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

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