HR Generalist

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

This 12 months fixed contract

**Role purpose**

Providing operational support across all aspects of the Employee Lifecycle for French Employees. There are a range of HR Operations activity where our HR advisor will be ensuring a pro-active, consistent and efficient approach in line with our Global Operating Model.

**Key accountabilities**
- Provide advice and assistance to all French employees for all employment related queries, with reference to, and interpretation of, local legislation, the employee handbooks and policies.
- Support the roll out of the local Trainings plan from A to Z with the support of the local HR team
- Providing support for the NWC meetings and ad hoc company projects
- Providing support on all transactional HR activities (such as invoices and one time payments, finance’s POC for invoices queries, first level employee queries, letters, etc)
- Partner with business and HR stakeholders to provide support across all aspects of HR Operations to ensure that business needs can be met whilst remaining legally compliant, and operating in line with best practice guidelines.
- Support all aspects of family leave, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave processes and employees’ return to work
- Support extended sick leave cases, liaise with occupational health providers for advice, review recommendations and discuss course of action with line managers and employees’.
- Prepare and process contracts of employment and employment letters, ensuring an efficient process and responding to queries related to them.
- Ensure all employment changes are updated in HR systems and communicated effectively to payroll as appropriate.
- Collaborate with HR Colleagues across all specialisms on the delivery of various global HR initiatives to drive business change.

**Role specific requirements**

Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree level qualification and/or experience
- Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and best practice
- A previous experience in social relations management is a plus
- Robust, resilient, approachable and diplomatic with the confidence to deal with challenging senior leaders
- A strong customer service mind set when dealing with both internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent attention to detail
- Capacity to deal with a wide range of stakeholders with conflicting priorities.
- Able to demonstrate initiative, influence and problem solving skills
- Friendly and able to converse with people at any level
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and analytical skills.
- Strong project management skills, particularly with respect to organisation, prioritisation, and time management.

Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. We offer skill development and learning pathways to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location. In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are on offer.

**What we offer**

Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. We offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.

In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognises the importance of a work life balance.

Some benefit examples are:

- Flexible working and relaxed dress code
- Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities
- Access to a virtual business school for on-going learning
- Business mentoring
- Free drinks and fresh fruits
- public transport allowance
- option of parking slots in the city
- lunch vouchers