HR Advisor
| Posting date: | 10 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,000.0 to £50,000.0 per year |
| Additional salary information: | DOE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH2 3AH |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4753043_1765380697 |
Summary
Your new company
This organisation provides expert advice to individuals and businesses across a wide range of sectors. Their services include accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax, and VAT, all delivered with a commitment to excellence and innovation. Join this firm and become part of a team that combines deep expertise with a forward-thinking approach to help clients thrive.
Your new role
Join the HR team as an HR Advisor working across the whole employee cohort, offering advice and guidance on key issues such as employee relations, employee performance and employee retention. This role will also work closely with the Talent Management Leads across the business. Although based in Edinburgh, there will be regular travel across regional offices in Manchester, Leeds, and Inverness.
The responsibilities within this role include:
- Managing the majority of ER issues that arise in their relevant function area and require good knowledge and training, confidence in resolving issues informally and advising the relevant line managers on good and fair practices.
- They will help guide managers on HR matters and be the first point of contact.
- Coaching relevant line managers and/or staff partners on good and fair practices.
- The role undertakes specific project work for group or firm-wide initiatives, working closely with the HR Lead e.g., ensuring timelines are met, deliverables are set and contributing towards the development of the content for these initiatives.
- The HR Advisor will provide support, mentoring and advice to the People Operations Administration team and provide training and support as well as be at hand to help answer ad-hoc queries, working closely with the People Operations Manager.
- The HR Advisor will be comfortable analysing and presenting data, e.g., monthly MI reporting, engagement survey results, exit interviews, leavers and sickness analysis. In order that these may make a meaningful impact on the people management of the Northern Regional Group.
- The HR Advisor will work closely with the Head of People Operations to review current processes to check for quality of outputs and value delivered by the People Operations team.
- Collaboration across the People Operations and the wider People Experience teams is key to the success of this role.
- The HR Advisor will work closely with the Talent Managment Leads to support the partners and leaders within the client group supported, and where required and appropriate, lead certain projects and initiatives.
- The HR Advisor will be expected to share knowledge and lessons learnt with the broader People Experience team to ensure any necessary changes and updates to processes, policies and systems have been made.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you require the following:
- Broad or specialised HR knowledge, with work experience or a relevant degree or equivalent.
- Relevant experience within a specific area of work in professional services or a partnership.
- Able to use judgement / experience to tackle issues and seek advice on more complex problems.
- Strong analytical skills, based on systems and models relevant to the field of work.
What you'll get in return
This organisation offers a competitive salary and remuneration package, including an annual bonus scheme. Working within a professional services environment, this organisation offer exposure to a range of client groups, and career progression opportunities.
What you need to do now
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