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Senior HR Advisor (m/f/x)

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King makes great games that offer fun, bite-size entertainment experiences for everyone to enjoy and it's no surprise that creating a fun and friendly employee experience is at the heart of our values and culture.

Reporting into a People Director, and supporting multiple HR stakeholders, we are looking for a HR Advisor to join our Kingdom in Berlin. In this role you will be an integral part of evolving and upholding our values and our employees experience across the whole of the employee life-cycle.

To be successful, you will be super organised, have great people skills, strong data management & process implementation skills and be passionate about providing a great employee experience to our Kingsters. You will love supporting your client groups, providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday challenges, and driving process improvements which add value to both our employees and simplify our ways of working.

As an integral part of the HR team, you will play a key role supporting your stakeholders with the core of our craft. Independently advising them on our HR policies, practices, and processes to ensure we provide the best employee experience possible. You will also take the lead on our HR data supporting our leaders with their reporting, workforce planning, talent & performance practices, and engagement action plans.

YOUR ROLE WITHIN OUR KINGDOM

• Independently advise on HR policies, practices, and local regulatory requirements to resolve manager and employee policy queries linked to core HR processes, absence, probation, performance management, reward, mobility and much more.
• Advise our managers with employee relations issues from: performance management, disciplinaries and grievances to supporting our Kingsters with sickness, maternity/paternity.
• You will have great listening skills, be objective, fair and offer advice and feedback ensuring the employee experience continuously lives up to our culture and values.
• Maintains awareness of German labour laws that may impact King. Owns policies - takes an active role in updating local policies and educating managers. Works with peers in HR and legal to update our intranet pages as needed.
• Own the management information for your function(s) ensuring it is reliable, relevant, and up to date, enabling leadership to make the right decisions. This will include analysing resource data such as turnover, retention, new hires, compensation, productivity and capability. Ensuring that resourcing, talent, succession plan and employees records are accurate and up to date and that we are pulling insights and recommendations from these that support both our business and people objectives.
• You will own the maintenance of data & employee changes in workday, as well as maintain personal files, looking at ways to continuously improve our practices here and ways of working with our global HR Ops team
• Championing our values and culture you will support training programs around local and companywide: Performance Management and talent frameworks, DE&I strategies, ethical laws, standards, and policies.
• Support with the resourcing of our future talent, working with the business and talent acquisition to be our values and potential check for junior recruitment of individual contributors, interns, and other development schemes. You will partner with managers to ensure the onboarding of our new Kingsters over their first 90 days lives up to the expectations of our Kingdom, sets them up for success and the passing of their probation.
• You will support our Employee Engagement initiatives; from running focus groups, preparing communications, data collection and analysis to the coordination of team feedback and action plans to ensure we follow up on our commitments and continuously drive improvements
• Conducts Exit interviews as applicable ensuring learning from these are captured and fed back into both people and business plans.
• Actively support other HR initiatives, projects, events, community days and other King initiatives. This will include the development of project plans (i.e., actions, risks and issues, timelines) and supporting of local and functional projects to help improve our employee experience.
• Provide comprehensive HR administrative support, including managing and ensuring that personnel files are up to date, creating employee certificate/offboarding documentation, liaising with payroll teams and German local authorities, and following up on local compliance requirements etc.

SKILLS TO CREATE THRILLS:

• HR experience gained in a HR Advisory role, with hands-on experience of managing end to end HR people processes. You will be professional, credible, and responsive
• Strong advisory skills and knowledge and experience of applying German employment law.
• Employee relations experience
• Experience of interpreting and applying HR policies and procedures with the ability to identify potential ER issues. Thorough understanding of local payroll and general understanding of tax implications of compensation and benefits and their related risks
• Experience managing multiple activities and collaborating with others to get the job done.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational and excellent time management skills.
• Strong experience of data analysis, management, pulling of insights and recommendations from this. Actively listens to the business on improvements that could be made to the metrics.
• Seeks new ways to improve HR processes and outcomes. Look at ways to minimise cost or contribute to process improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders, employees, and HR peers to ensure effective team collaboration and an enhanced customer/employee experience.
• Sound judgement and decision making, with the ability to identify and resolve problems, provide solutions, and take necessary actions to prevent them from developing in future.
• Appreciation and understanding of the need for confidentiality and discretion in dealing with any people related activities. Works with employees affected by changes to explain rationale and reinforce the need to change.
• Excellent IT skills – particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Fluent in German and English - both in verbal and written communication

BONUS SKILLS:

• Experience of using HR systems such as Workday.
• Experience with using case management systems.
• Good level of all Microsoft packages including excel and PowerPoint. Can gather internal HR metrics and present them in a useful way.
• Basic understanding of project management methodology.
• Experience supporting the facilitation (& training) of HR processes spanning across: Performance Management, Engagement, Talent, DE&I and other people processes is an advantage.
• Other languages, we are a global team.