About Unbiased

We are Unbiased. We know that creating a secure future for you and your family tomorrow means making the right financial decisions today. But finding professionals you can trust to give you the right advice for you isn’t always easy. With Unbiased it is.

At Unbiased we’ve got the trusted experience and advice you need to help you make those difficult decisions with confidence. We simply and reliably connect you with financial advisers, mortgage brokers or accountants who can give you clear, impartial advice, tailored to your individual circumstances. So, when it comes to making life’s biggest decisions, you’re never on your own.

We have big ambitions to improve how people tackle the biggest decisions, and working at Unbiased means working with smart, motivated people who believe in this. We have a fun, but in an ambitious environment where we are simply trusted to get stuff done. 

Overview of the role

We’re looking for a super organised and progressive People Associate to play a core role in our small but brilliant People team.  Motivated by the opportunity to make an impact, you seize every chance to craft meaningful processes and create lasting engagement initiatives.     

As a true generalist with an understanding of the HR matters that surface in a dynamic business, you understand that whilst policies and processes are important, they shouldn’t inhibit people from doing their best work, so you’ll effortlessly put a people-lens on all that you do. 

Core Responsibilities

Employment Law:

• Working with the Chief People Officer (CPO) to provide reliable guidance to Managers on how employment law shapes how we are able to manage our relationship with our employees.

• Ensuring that our policies and procedures remain intuitive and in line with legislation 

People Analytics:

• Collating and analysing employee data in order to provide actionable insights back to the business

• Working with the CPO to use insights to make improvements across organisational design, compensation strategy, employee engagement and culture

Culture:

• Assisting the CPO with quarterly culture and values programmes in line with the People team’s OKRs

• Researching and proposing employee engagement initiatives to help us build a culture of innovation, wellbeing, rewarding work and fun

• Researching and proposing new benefits that help us build a culture of innovation, wellbeing, rewarding work and fun

• Communicating our People frameworks, policies and processes to the business in order for everyone to understand how we do things here

Performance Management

• Proactive management of the Company’s performance review process, ensuring that all Managers understand the process, complete reviews with the defined cadence and have guidance on how to carry out an effective performance review

• Providing guidance to Managers on management of performance

• Manage our new joiner onboarding and induction programme – including probation objectives, company and team 101’s 

• Assisting the CPO to define clear performance criteria to be used consistently across the business

L&D

• Collaborating with the CPO in curating content and delivering quarterly internal workshops on agreed relevant topics in line with the People team’s OKR’s

• Assisting the CPO in developing our Professional Development process and managing the process once live

Guardian of our HR Tech:

• Proactively protecting the integrity of the data held within our HRIS so that we can rely on it as a single source of truth, ensuring all employee updates are made accurately and in a timely manner

• Induction of new joiners to the HRIS system, ensuring that it remains an integral part of the business, relied upon by all employees as a key enabler and valuable source of information

• Promotion of Pension and Wellbeing apps, ensuring that employees understand the exceptional investment we have made in their employment

Transactional:

• Administration of Employment Contracts, Addendums, Probation confirmation letters, FTC extensions, Contractor Agreements (with an eye on IR35 legislation), Holiday balances, EMI Scheme paperwork, Visa paperwork, Right to Work in UK document checks

• Proactive tracking of contract renewals and probation expiry dates

• Collation of monthly payroll files for processing, ensuring that all relevant inputs are captured to avoid delay

About you 

Ideally you will have at least CIPD Level 3, however alongside experienced candidates, we’re also happy to speak to you if you’re currently in an HR Admin role and working towards your CIPD, so this could be a growth role for you. Ultimately, we’d like to know that:

You’re committed to your own growth

You read around your subject, staying up to date with developments in Employment Law (Case Law implications, Legislation), Strategies to drive high performance and trends in Employee engagement.

You’re a creative problem solver

You get a kick out of solving people problems using insights from our people data. And whilst leaning on your HR playbook is sometimes the most efficient thing to do, you’re not afraid to try new approaches if the data is pointing us in a different direction.

You have tons of EQ

Emotional Intelligence is essential in our People team. Amongst other things, you leverage this skill to manage mediation meetings to avoid employee disputes escalating and ensure that as a business we have empathy with our employees.

You’re proud of your work

You take pride in your responsibilities and proactively seek out potential issues before they inhibit company progress. You own your projects from end to end and you’re confident in your HR knowledge, using your expertise to help Managers grow in their capability as People leaders.

You’re at ease working at pace

You understand the nuances involved in working in a fast evolving technology business and are aware of the specific people challenges we face in our market. 

You’ve got the People team’s fundamentals

You’re organised and have great attention to detail alongside absolute discretion and ability to build confidence and trust-based relationships

Our Shared Values...

At Unbiased we have set of values that underpin the work that we do, we hope you’ll share these too!

• Be relentless about progress - working at pace to solve problems, navigate around blockers and prioritising company OKR’s.

• Own it and get it done – taking ownership of your projects, involving the right people at the right time and making meaningful contributions.

• Share and seek input – proactive in seeking and acting upon feedback. Being open, sharing knowledge and proactively communicating.

• Enjoy the journey – Ensuring cross-team collaboration and proactively celebrating achievements of your peers

How we’ll take care of you: 
 

• Investment in your Development: Alongside in-house training, you’ll be allocated a generous yearly allowance to invest in your career development.

• Investment in your Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is a top priority for us, and you’ll be able to benefit an annual wellbeing allowance. On top of this, we have arranged for Private Medical Insurance for extra peace of mind for you and your family

• Social Events: We’re a social bunch so you can expect plenty of activities based in and around our vibrant office in the heart of Farringdon. 

 
The Usual Benefits:  
 

• Holiday: you’ll be allocated plenty of holiday to ensure that you have enough time to recharge, work-life balance is super important to us here (you’ll also have your birthday off as paid annual leave!)

• Flexible working: we’ll work with you to find the balance of office-based work and remote working

• Pension: you’ll be able to save via salary sacrifice scheme, with Unbiased contributing above the minimum required amount, subject to banded earnings.

• Private Medical Insurance: you can add your dependents and spouse

• Life insurance 

• Cycle to work scheme 

Equal Opportunity 

The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Unbiased are made up of broad range of talented people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

Data Privacy

Personal information about unsuccessful candidates will be held for 12 months after the recruitment exercise has been completed, it will then be destroyed or deleted. We retain de-personalised statistical information about applicants to help inform our recruitment activities, but no individuals are identifiable from that data.

Once a person has taken up employment with Unbiased, we will compile a file relating to their employment. The information contained in this will be kept secure and will only be used for purposes directly relevant to that person’s employment. Once their employment with Unbiased has ended, we will retain the file in accordance with the requirements of our retention schedule and then delete it.

Agencies

As much as we appreciate the help, we’re using our own direct sourcing methods or we’re working with one of our carefully selected Agency Partners on this vacancy. To find out a little more about how we partner with agencies please email talent@unbiased.co.uk FAO our Talent Manager, speculative phone calls will not be taken by our team neither will CV submissions without Unbiased or the candidates expressed consent.