Employee Relations Specialist - 3-Month Contract
Location: Central London, near St Pauls and Bank - Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
Contract: 3 months, with potential for a permanent opportunity
Day Rate: £200-£400 per day via Umbrella company, dependent on relevant experience
Start Date: ASAP - ideally by the end of August, latest 7 September
Are you an experienced Employee Relations Specialist who thrives in a fast-paced, complex organisation? Do you have strong ER case management experience, including complex cases, and a good understanding of Workday?
We are recruiting for a hands-on Employee Relations Specialist to join a large, international technology and professional services organisation with approximately 2,000 employees in the UK and 15,000 globally.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established HR team of around 20 people and play a key role within a busy HR Shared Services environment. The organisation has a fast-paced, sales-driven culture, so experience of working in a large and complex environment with multiple stakeholders is essential.
The Role
This is a hands-on, non-managerial position suited to an experienced HR/ER professional. In consultancy terms, we're looking for someone operating at Senior Consultant level rather than Manager level.
You don't need previous leadership or management experience. Instead, you'll need to be confident managing a busy ER caseload independently, dealing with complex employee matters and working effectively in a fast-paced, commercially focused environment.
You'll work closely with managers and stakeholders, providing practical and knowledgeable advice across a range of employee relations matters while ensuring cases are managed consistently and in line with UK employment legislation.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a high-volume Employee Relations caseload from start to finish
- Handle ER cases (occasionally complex), including disciplinary, grievance, performance and absence matters
- Provide practical, confident advice to managers and stakeholders
- Support performance management and absence management processes
- Review and interpret changes to employment legislation and assess their impact on the organisation
- Support TUPE activity and associated employee relations matters
- Manage and respond to queries through ServiceNow, the organisation's HR ticketing system
- Use Workday as the core HRIS and support the creation, review and implementation of HR templates
- Review and improve HR processes, documentation and templates
- Work collaboratively within the wider HR Shared Services function
- Build effective relationships across a large and complex organisation
- Manage competing priorities effectively in a fast-paced environment
Essential Experience:
The key experience we're looking for is:
1. Strong ER Case Management Experience
You must have substantial experience managing ER cases independently, with experience handling complex ER matters being a major advantage.
2. Workday Experience
Previous experience using Workday is essential. This is the organisation's core HRIS platform.
3. TUPE Experience
You'll need practical experience of supporting or managing TUPE processes.
4. Large, Complex Organisation Experience
Experience working within a large and complex organisation is essential. International organisation experience would be a significant advantage. Experience within a large organisation of several hundred employees or more is preferred.
You'll also ideally have:
- Experience working within a fast-paced, commercially focused environment
- Strong performance and absence management experience
- Experience within technology, professional services, sales or another similarly fast-paced environment is useful, although sector background is less important than organis
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are looking for a committed individual who has experience processing accounts. Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Accounts Payable Specialist will ensure that all purchase invoices are authorised correctly and paid efficiently to the society and suppliers.
Each of our homes and schemes express God’s love through compassion and care that helps people live life to the full - fulfilled living. Our focus is providing a loving and caring environment for our “family members” (our residents) and maintaining the Christian ethos that is important to many of them. Everything we do in our Homes, Schemes, in the Head Office Team (Operations, Property, Human Resources, Finance, Marketing and IT services) and through our community activity, supports that.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure purchase ledger incoming mail and emails are dealt with on a daily basis;
- Responsible for authorising all purchase ledger invoices;
- Process on the accounting system for all transactions within agreed SLA’s;
- Support the month-end close process including and not limited to the accrual and prepayment process.
- Support and collaborate with the internal users of the purchase to pay (P2P) process to ensure queries are dealt with on a timely basis.
- Payment to suppliers on time;
- Reviewing transactions in the nominal ledger to ensure completeness and to answer queries.
- Processing of travel and expenses, including corporate credit cards.
- Responsible for the month-end close and nominal account reconciliations.
- In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, you are required to perform other duties assigned by your manager from time to time that are within your capabilities.
About you:
- AAT Level 3 Qualified;
- You have excellent Microsoft Office Skills including Excel (VLookups & Pivot Tables);
- You are able to communicate effectively;
- You are committed to meeting deadlines and able to plan and prioritise work;
- You have strong time management skills;
- You are well organised;
- A positive attitude towards Pilgrims’ Friend Society and its wider aims and objectives and are able to fully agree with our Doctrinal Basis.
- Some experience in a Purchase Ledger / Accounts Payable role is highly desirable
For more details, please take a look at the Job Description& Person Specification
*Applicants must be evangelical Christians (This role has an Occupational Requirement to be filled by a Christian under the provisions of the Equality Act (2010).)
Hours:
Full-time contract, working 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
Benefits:
- Hybrid working (2 days in the office)
- Flexible working hours
- 5 Weeks' paid holiday per year, as well as bank and public holidays
- Training & development
- Ongoing support from management
- Perkbox – including an Employee assistance programme
- Care Friends referral
- Medicash
- Long-standing service rewards
- Birthday rewards
- Life assurance scheme
- Pension scheme
— What our staff say about us: …“It is a friendly and welcoming place to work” … —
We are committed to having a diverse senior management team and we encourage applications from disabled and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic candidates, as these groups are underrepresented on our senior management team at present.
Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of autistic young people? Do you thrive on helping individuals develop their skills, confidence and independence? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
Ambitious College is an independent specialist day college supporting autistic young people aged 16–25. Our person-centred approach puts each learner at the heart of everything we do. We provide highly personalised learning programmes and specialist support, helping learners develop the skills they need to achieve their aspirations and participate more independently in everyday life.
Based at the West Thames College campus in West London, Ambitious College provides a vibrant and inclusive learning environment. Our learners benefit from a wide range of opportunities both on campus and in the wider community. Through partnerships with local businesses, community organisations and mainstream colleges, we create meaningful opportunities for learners to develop their confidence, independence and employability skills in real-world settings.
About the role
As a Specialist Teaching Assistant, you will play an important role in supporting our learners to achieve their individual goals. You will provide personalised support, often on a 1:1 basis, both within the college and out in the community.
You'll work closely with teaching and specialist staff to support learning, communication, independence and personal development. No two days will be the same, and you'll have the opportunity to see the direct impact your support has on the lives of the young people you work with.
This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who is patient, compassionate and motivated to help autistic young people develop their skills, confidence and independence.
At Ambitious College, our values shape everything we do. We put autistic young people at the centre of our work and are committed to creating an environment where every learner is valued, supported and empowered to reach their potential.
If you're looking for a role where you can build meaningful relationships, develop your skills and make a genuine difference every day, we'd love you to join us.
Working pattern: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Working weeks: 41 weeks per year, paid over 52 weeks
Start date: October 2026
Interviews: Ongoing throughout September 2026
Please note: Only applications submitted online via our recruitment portal will be considered.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
We stand with autistic children and young people, champion their rights and create opportunities.