HR Advisor

Confidential Company

The HR Advisor supports end-to-end HR operations with a primary focus on Recruitment and Onboarding, Employee Engagement, Employee Relations, and HR Compliance. The role ensures a smooth hiring and induction process, supports learning and development coordination, manages employee relations matters, maintains accurate HR system and payroll data, and contributes to DE&I and wellbeing initiatives, while providing broader operational HR support as required.

Key Accountabilities

Recruitment and Onboarding

• Sourcing candidates and shortlisting them based on business requirements.

• Conduct Compliance checks for offered candidates.

• Support with IJPS, Assessments, and creation/update of Job Description, job offers, and job contracts.

• Reviewing the visa status of new recruits and working with the onboarding/admin team to ensure they join on a timely manner.

• Support the HR & Learning Team in inducting new colleagues in the business.

• Support the Learning team in printing training & on-boarding material.

• Assist with Emiritzation efforts to achieve hire retain as per the assigned target.

Employee Engagement

• Maintain regular presence on-the-ground to support retail teams with HR & L&D matters.

• Support the HR Manager in driving engagement through Voice Survey and improve on colleague feedback via pulse meetings within UAE.

• Support the HR Manager in driving DE&I and Wellbeing initiatives in UAE.

Employee Relations

• Handle daily employee grievances, inquiries, complaints, and escalate them to the HR Manager whenever required.

• Attend retention calls for departing colleagues.

• Make sure all WD inputs are correctly reflected on the system (leaves, time tracking, ST allowance, HDA, Joining Dates, Termination Dates etc…)

• Attend 30,60,90,150 Performance meetings with new joiners and their team leaders and provide feedback/support wherever required.

• Draft letters (warnings, promotions, adhoc) and make sure they are properly stored on People DOC.

• Upload all HR adhoc docs on People doc and do random checks on the system to make sure that all employee documents are uploaded by the onboarding team.

• Tracking exit clearances for FNF processing, submitting FNF inputs to payroll, sharing the FNF with the employee, and coordinating payment release.

• Verify and approve employee verifications for external requests.

• Validate LSA, and assist HR Manager with the GEM entitlements, nominations, awards printing and vouchers purchase.

• Support the entire HR team with the Emiritzation Strategy and ongoing efforts.

Compliance

• Update Employee Data on Central Bank portal and Workday.

• Manage support trainer's allowance.

• Support the Learning Manager in updating training records.

• Handle/Support the HR Manager in managing disciplinary and grievance issues and maintain tracker.

• Coordinate with the onboarding team on the monthly pension settlement and pension update whenever applicable.

• Assist the HR Manager in managing and overseeing the implementation and compliance of policies, procedures, and process improvement.

• Assist HR Manager in managing payroll process for UAE.

• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to make sure all payroll inputs are shared correctly and on time with the payroll team (LTA, Incentives, OT, Allowances, etc..)

• Provide timely support for internal and external audits as required.