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HR Administrator

We build ground-breaking games and content for some of the world’s biggest publishers including Microsoft, Sony, Apple and Sega. Sheffield is our largest studio and headquarters, situated just north-east of the city centre, where we’ve built and contributed to some of the world’s best-loved game franchises.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Sumo, winners of the Develop: Star Awards 2019 Best Studio and GI Biz 2020 Best Places to Work; big things are on the horizon and we want you to be part of our continued journey. Join us!

Sumo Sheffield is made up of a diverse mix of fantastic people, although sometimes, some groups are still under-represented. We are working to remove obstacles that can make it difficult for those groups to progress their careers in the games industry. We welcome applications from under-represented people in the gaming industry, including, but not limited to BAME, LGBQT+, women, people with physical disabilities, neurodiversity or mental health issues, and parents or carers.

With the support of our embedded and experienced Recruitment, L&D and HR team, you will provide an effective and timely HR administration service to support Sumo Group businesses and their employees.

It's an exciting time at our Sumo studios, we'd love you to come on board and support us on the journey.

Within this role you will:

• Provide administrative support throughout the entire employee life cycle, ensuring a timely, accurate and positive experience. Tasks including, but not limited to contract generation & amendments, onboarding & offboarding processes, reference requests, absence recording, benefits admin, training admin, performance review and reward process admin.
• Provide basic advice, support and guidance to our people and managers via e-mail, telephone and face to face.
• Pass queries onto HR Advisor/HR Manager where appropriate.
• Provide studio support to all our studios as part of a Shared Administration service team.
• Maintain hard and soft copy employee data/records, ensuring they are accurate, kept up to date in a timely manner and stored in line with HR policy and GDPR regulations.
• In conjunction with HR Advisor, ensure payroll sheet is updated on a monthly basis with new starters/leavers information, additional payments or deductions and supporting documentation is provided to Finance/Payroll by the payroll cut off date.
• In conjunction with the wider HR team, be responsible for updating and creating HR forms, templates and processes, ensuring they remain up to date and fit for purpose.
• Contribute to management information/reports on a routine and ad-hoc basis.
• Contribute to project work as requested within the HR team.
• Updating company Dojo (Intranet & learning portal) on an adhoc basis.
• Provide support to the HR Advisors & HR Manager, also ensuring they are kept up to date will all matters of importance.
• Identify areas of improvement, opportunity and innovation in own workload/HR processes and discuss with HR Advisors/HR Manager.
• Any other duties where required.

It would be great if you have:

• A good level of previous practical administrative experience from within a fast-paced environment, ideally within HR.
• Previous experience of dealing with sensitive or confidential matters.
• HR/Payroll Systems Experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to use initiative to solve problems and think outside the box.
• Able to quickly gain credibility and good working relationships with key stakeholders.
• A tendency to take ownership of problems and actively seeks solutions by using own initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a varied workload.
• Must have a flexible attitude and strive for continuous improvement with a keen eye for detail, consistency, and accuracy.
• Ability to work well in a team but on own initiative also.
• Ability to promote and uphold HR initiatives and values, including discretion and confidentiality.
• Solution focused with a keen eye for systematic improvements.
• Well-developed IT skills and familiarity with business software such as Microsoft Office.
• HR Qualification is desirable.

We offer a super benefits package including generous holidays and flexible working hours. Further perks include our legendary annual Sumo Big Day Out, plus epic Christmas parties, money on your birthday, on site free gym and free fruit for everyone! Our new, regular studio Game Jams are a highlight - staff spend a full day developing and pitching their own game ideas for possible development by Sumo.

Our environment is relaxed, friendly and built upon the basis of every team member having the opportunity to shine and have a realisable input into the games we create. We are a very happy ship with lots of incredibly nice people that partake in shared interest groups, lunchtime clubs, charity fundraising events and lots of socialising.

We are proud to be located in Sheffield, just off J34 of the M1 offering easy road and rail access from Leeds, Manchester and the Midlands. Sheffield itself enjoys wealth of facilities including world class sporting facilities, stunning theatres and galleries, the National Video Game Museum, shopping, restaurants and incredible parks and green spaces - all on the doorstep of the beautiful Peak District National Park. We love it here.