HR Advisor

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.

Function: Human Resources

Reporting: HR Manager

Location: Malakoff, France

This is a 1 year 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
- 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 National Works Council meetings and ad hoc company projects
- Providing support on all transactional HR activities being the point of contact 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**

We are after the below skills:

- Prior HR related working experience
- English working professional level
- Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and best practice
- 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.
- A previous experience in social relations management is a plus
- First experience with Works Council or educational background of social law is desirable
- Bachelor’s degree level qualification or similar