HR Administrator (6 month contract)

Job description

Our client is looking for an organized and detail-focused HR Administrator to support day-to-day HR operations across the employee lifecycle. The role will maintain accurate employee records, coordinate onboarding and offboarding, support payroll administration and help improve HR processes and documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding, including contracts, employee documentation, system records and related tasks.
• Process employee changes, including role, salary and contractual updates.
• Maintain accurate and complete employee data and digital personnel files.
• Prepare regular HR and payroll reports and provide accurate payroll inputs to Finance.
• Administer pension enrolments, leavers and employee referral payments.
• Monitor contract, probation, visa and other employee-document deadlines.
• Manage routine HR queries and the shared HR mailbox, escalating sensitive matters appropriately.
• Support HR audits, data-quality checks and remediation of missing or inaccurate records.
• Update HR procedures, templates, forms, employee guidance and handbook content.
• Support improvements to HR document storage and employee self-service content.

Skills and Experience

• Previous experience in HR administration, people operations or a similar role.
• Experience maintaining HR systems and confidential employee records.
• Experience supporting payroll inputs and employee lifecycle administration.
• Strong attention to detail, organisation and follow-through.
• Confident user of Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, Outlook, Word and SharePoint.
• Clear, practical communication skills and a service-oriented approach.
• Ability to manage sensitive information with discretion and in line with data-protection requirements.

What Success Looks Like

• Employee records and documentation are accurate, complete and up to date.
• Onboarding, offboarding, employee changes and payroll inputs are completed on time.
• HR queries and compliance actions are followed through efficiently.
• Core HR processes and guidance are clear, current and consistently used.