HR Administrator

The Vacancy

🌟 Join Our Team as an HR Administrator! 🌟

📍 Location: Finsbury Park
🏢 Business Unit: WPS

👥 Do you love working with people?
📋 Are you highly organised and ready to grow in a well-established, family-run business?
If so, we’ve got a fantastic opportunity for you!

💼 About the Role

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented HR Administrator to join our WPS team. You’ll provide essential administrative support to managers and employees, helping to deliver a smooth and efficient HR service across the full employee lifecycle.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

✅ Manage high-volume queries via our case management system
✅ Support onboarding from offer to first day (contracts, compliance, check-ins)
✅ Process changes to terms and conditions (job title, hours, salary, etc.)
✅ Handle leaver administration for a smooth exit experience
✅ Maintain and update our HR database and trackers
✅ Ensure compliance with HR policies, procedures, and SLAs
✅ Guide managers and employees on HR best practices
✅ Conduct audits to maintain data accuracy
✅ Respond to external reference requests in line with GDPR
✅ Support cyclical tasks like pay reviews, bonuses, and audits
✅ Suggest improvements to enhance process efficiency

🎯 What We’re Looking For

✔️ Previous admin experience in a busy HR team
✔️ Ideally CIPD Level 3 qualified
✔️ Excellent written and verbal communication skills
✔️ Confident engaging with people at all levels
✔️ High attention to detail and motivation to learn

🔐 Pre-Employment Checks

This role requires a Basic DBS Check at offer stage. We assess all applicants individually and do not discriminate based on criminal records. Some roles may require additional vetting.

👉 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-vetting-advice

📩 Ready to apply or want to learn more?
We’d love to hear from you!

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.