HR Manager - Benefits, Data and Compliance (Fixed Term)

About Us

At Fideres we champion fair markets for social justice and individual dignity. Through our unique focus on litigation, we help consumers and investors to enforce their rights through the legal system. We are leaders in our field and we have supported our clients in recovering billions of dollars in settlements for plaintiffs.

Our Competition team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.

Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has acted as plaintiffs' experts in the most consequential financial cartels and market manipulation cases of the past 10 years.

About this Role

We are looking for an HR Manager (Benefits, Data and Compliance) to join us on a 6-9 month fixed-term contract basis. This role will support our small and friendly People & Culture team in a period of rapid growth across our international offices.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent relationship building skills, and a wide exposure to benefits, employee data management and HR compliance across the UK, Europe and the US.

Exposure to management consulting, economic consulting or a research and data driven industry would be highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

Some notable responsibilities include:
Compensation and Benefits

• Review all our employee benefits, across all our international offices.  Undertake an external cross-industry and cross-location market review to ensure our offering is competitive. Find innovative ways to research market benefit and reward packages.
• Review benefits run through payroll providers and brokers, and make recommendations for processing and cost efficiencies.
• Make sure time efficient processes are in place to support reward and benefits administration, bonuses, HR-to-Accounts payroll processes per location, and joiner and leaver benefit processes.
• Ensure that our benefit schemes are HMRC and/or local government compliant.
• Prepare employee marketing materials for all benefits (new joiner induction and existing staff) - think innovatively around how it is presented to employees in an engaging way.
• Make sure employee records and systems are documented correctly for benefits. 
• Make sure our new joiner pack is up to date for benefits. 

HR Analytics and Data Management

• Review our processes around employee and candidate data retention and privacy, and manage and administer these.
• Work with our Head of IT to ensure that our employee and candidate data is securely and confidentially managed and stored.
• Organise, maintain and update e-files and all HR data management systems (HR software, recruitment, training systems etc).
• Undertake an audit of all our HR data across the business and propose solutions for any issues.
• Develop our HR analytics and reporting on compensation, benefits and on all aspects of HR including working closely with our People & Culture Advisor on recruitment reporting.

HR Compliance

• Assist with reviewing and developing our HR policies and procedures, ensuring legislative compliance in all our locations.

• Put together a plan to ensure that our internal training programmes incorporate and comply with all our employment law obligations in all our international locations.

Generalist and Operational HR

• Support the People & Culture team on other HR projects as needed.

Key Skills and Attributes

The successful candidate will have:

• Have a solid understanding of how compensation and benefits work along with typical benefit provisions both within the corporate and small business space.
• Experience of working for US and/or European businesses would be highly desirable.
• Highly developed analytical skills with the ability to present data in an insightful way.
• Organised, process driven, strong attention to detail, strong excel and numeracy skills.
• Have a good eye for how reward offerings are packaged and presented to employees.
• Be capable of thinking creatively and laterally around issues with lots of initiative.
• Good relationship building and people skills.
• Sensitive to maintain strict confidentiality.