People Advisor

Location
London
Workplace
Hybrid

About this role

The Role

As a People Advisor, you'll play a key role in shaping a great employee experience for MVFers at different stages of the employee lifecycle. Armed with strong employment relations experience, business acumen, and interpersonal skills, you will be a trusted advisor to your client groups.

Responsibilities

Employee Relations

  • Advise and coach line managers on probation, performance management, sickness, redundancy, disciplinary, and grievance processes, managing the processes independently end to end.

  • Manage more complex ER cases with the support of the People Partner.

  • Provide necessary training and feedback to managers on people processes.

  • Support employees through family-friendly processes (e.g. maternity, paternity etc), and help identify opportunities to enhance and evolve these policies and processes over time.

  • Offer policy advice to managers and employees.

  • Assist in reviewing and updating people policies to ensure ongoing legal compliance and best practice.

People Advisory

  • Act as a trusted advisor to designated client groups within MVF, drawing on support and guidance from your People Partner when needed.

  • Work closely with your People Partner to ensure joined-up, consistent support for shared client groups, and support them on strategic and wider organisational design and development projects.

  • Work closely with key stakeholders to maintain excellent operational rhythms.

  • Support the delivery of DE&I and wellbeing initiatives across client groups.

  • Liaise with and provide people support to colleagues in our US and EMEA locations.

Employee Lifecycle

  • Support onboarding and induction for new starters, ensuring a smooth and positive first experience.

  • Manage the offboarding process, including exit interviews and leaver administration.

Learning and Development

  • Own the planning and scheduling of the annual People training calendar, balancing internal delivery with external provision.

  • Manage Docebo (our E-learning platform), to ensure all employees are compliant with mandatory training.This will include updating existing e-learning modules and working with the People Partners to develop new modules where required.

  • Help source, brief, and manage relationships with external L&D providers and facilitators.

  • Design and deliver own training sessions on core People topics (e.g. manager essentials, policy updates, employment law awareness) to build internal capability.

  • Assist in the coordination and delivery of internal training events run by others across MVF.

  • Contribute to assessment processes for internal developmental programmes.

  • Gather and act on feedback to continuously improve the training calendar's relevance and impact.

People Operations

  • Work closely with the People Coordinator, supporting them with administrative tasks including employee letters, HRIS updates, right to work checks etc.

  • Oversee the development of functionality in HiBob (our HRIS), supported by the People Coordinator.

  • Support the People Coordinator with TriNet and other Employer of Record (EOR) systems for our US and APAC populations.

  • Continuously identify opportunities for process automation through AI or utilising our systems.

Compliance and Reporting

  • Ensure operational compliance for standard employment processes like right-to-work checks and visa renewals.

  • Generate high-level monthly reports and manage data integrity.

  • Handle employee data in line with MVF's data protection obligations.

What Success Looks Like

  • Proactive problem-solving rather than reactive troubleshooting.

  • Positive feedback and high satisfaction from client groups.

  • Timely resolution of employee relations casework.

  • A well-run, well-received annual training calendar.

  • Successful KPI and SLA achievement by the People Coordinator.

Our Ideal MVFer

  • Demonstrable experience managing employee relations processes (probation, performance, disciplinary, grievance) end-to-end, either independently or with minimal support from senior People colleagues. Although exposure to more complex cases in a supporting capacity is fine.

  • Experience managing Learning & Development programmes, including coordinating with and managing external facilitators/providers, budget tracking, and ideally some exposure to LMS/e-learning platform administration.

  • Confident designing and facilitating People training sessions.

  • Experience working with or supporting US and/or EMEA teams, ideally including exposure to Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements.

  • Experience working with HiBob HRIS is preferable but not essential.

  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Resilient, especially in managing sensitive and challenging people issues.

  • Analytical, highly organised, and detail-oriented, with strong HRIS/Excel reporting skills.

  • Commercially focused with a willingness to adapt to change.

  • A team player dedicated to the collective success of the People Team and MVF as a whole.

Take the next step in your HR career with a role that offers variety, impact, and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary People Team. Apply today!

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