HR Systems Support Advisor

Salary: Grade: F £32,597 – £35,412 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Location: Loxley House, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

Worker Category:   Hybrid (one day per week – Thursday - in the office)

Contract Category:   Permanent

Working hours:   37 hours per week

 

About the role

Nottingham City Council is seeking an HR Systems Support Advisor to join our HR Systems team within the HR & Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Service. This is a key role supporting the effective operation, configuration, and development of our HR systems, ensuring high-quality data, strong governance, and excellent service to colleagues across the organisation.

You will act as the first point of contact for HR systems users, providing day-to-day system support while coordinating updates, data maintenance, and system administration, with a particular focus on Oracle Fusion.

What you will do

• Support and coordinate Oracle Fusion quarterly updates, including planning, regression testing, and liaison with Development and Change colleagues
• Maintain and update HR system data, including worker categories, positions, templates, checklists, journeys, and organisational structures
• Act as coordinator for HR and corporate system licensing, tracking users and renewals
• Support establishment control and vacancy management, ensuring accurate position and budgeted establishment data
• Provide administrative support for FOI and Subject Access Requests, ensuring requests are logged, prioritised, and completed within statutory timescales
• Maintain system issue logs and support escalation of technical issues
• Support time recording solutions and provide user support for system queries and errors
• Produce information and analysis using tools such as Excel and Oracle, responding to internal and external requests
• Maintain HR & EDI content on the corporate intranet
• Ensure strict confidentiality and compliance with GDPR, FOI and Data Protection legislation

What we are looking for

You will bring experience of working with HR systems and data, ideally within a large or complex organisation. You will be confident working with data, supporting users, and maintaining high standards of accuracy and confidentiality.

You will also demonstrate:

• Experience using HR Management Information Systems, preferably Oracle
• Strong Excel skills, including formula writing and data analysis
• An understanding of data protection, GDPR and information governance
• The ability to prioritise work and manage competing demands
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

Why join Nottingham City Council?

At Nottingham City Council, we are committed to serving our citizens and supporting our workforce. We offer:

• A supportive and collaborative working environment
• Opportunities for learning, development and progression
• Flexible working arrangements
• A strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), a highly competitive defined benefit pension with strong employer contributions, recognised as one of the most valuable benefits in the public sector

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your systems and data expertise while making a real contribution to the effective running of a large public sector organisation.

How to apply

Closing date: 15^th February 2026

Interview Date: W/C 23rd February 2026 or 2nd March at Loxley House, Nottingham

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Nottingham City Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Scheme employer and a supporter of the Armed Forces Covenant. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone can thrive. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and those with military service, as well as candidates from diverse social and economic backgrounds. We value diversity of thought, experience, and perspective and are committed to ensuring that all applicants are treated fairly, with respect, and given the opportunity to succeed.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it.  We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Gemma Ward by email, please click here

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support

By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits. 

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service)  + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working – to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
   
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.    

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.