HR Administrator

Costain People Services team have a fantastic vacancy for an HR Administrator; the role is working alongside our inhouse payroll team and wider People function.

The job holder will be required to provide a professional and efficient administration and customer service attitude and to provide a quality and consistent telephone and email advice service, together with transactional support service, ensuring consistency of practice and compliance with corporate people, management policies processes and standards.

This is a hybrid role with 3 days working at our Maidenhead office.

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Responsibilities: Responsibilities Provide first line support to people managers and employees on a variety of queries and a range of Employee Relations issues both over the phone and email; escalating to the wider People function where necessary. Payroll administration for Weekly and Monthly employees, working with site accountants and our inhouse payroll team to ensure deadlines are met and the accuracy of the payroll is maintained. Provide effective and efficient HR administration to ensure appropriate approval processes have been followed and both HR and payroll implications are fully considered. Managing the leavers ‘off-boarding’ process, ensuring all documentation has been sent to the line manager and employee. Ensuring the leaver details are entered correctly on MyHR and payroll information is up to date. Assisting with onboarding new employees into the business, from offer to day one onboarding. Administer Employee Benefits to ensure that all employees are included in relevant schemes (e.g. Bupa, Pension etc) and details are recorded. Liaise with payroll to resolve queries such as tax, national insurance, pension and other company benefits. Ensuring compliance and governance in line with company policy and appropriate legislations. Taking ownership for updating and maintain policies and procedures. Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Essential Proven experience within an HR / payroll function Proficient in relevant Microsoft Office Suite applications Strong written and verbal communication skills Effective data entry skills with an eye for detail Desirable Payroll Administration experience CPP or CIPD an advantage
• Knowledge of HR Systems- Oracle

• Could hold professional qualification preferably in administration

About us: Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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