Senior HR Advisor

About Baringa
Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.
The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.
Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.
Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.
Our People team are looking for an experienced Senior HR Advisor to join the team.
Working in our global HR Business Partnering team to actively support the partnership and advise across the partner lifecycle globally and contribute towards the successful delivery of the partner agenda and value proposition. This role reports to the Head of HRBPs, working closely with the Chief People Officer, and provides dedicated operational, casework and process support for the partnership.
What you will be doing
Act as first point of contact providing advice and guidance on HR/people policies and procedures for the partnership in line with best practice, balancing consistency with pragmatic problem solving.
Provide support to the Chief People Officer on partner relations cases, ensuring compliance with partnership handbooks, policies and current employment law and regulations. Activities will include:
Investigations, conduct concerns, grievances and partner transitions (exits).
Absence and wellbeing management (including short and long term sickness), monitoring absence levels, sick pay, support in coordinating return to work plans and providing proactive support/advice to the Chief People Officer and senior leadership.
Engaging with occupational health and other external service providers in a timely manner.
Escalate complex/sensitive queries to the Head of HRBPs for advice, guidance and support.
Work closely with the HR Operations team and HR Systems team to design, document and continuously improve partnership HR processes and ways of working (e.g. Standard Operating Procedures, process maps, workflow tools), ensuring they remain fit for a partnership model and scale as the business grows.
Responsible for completing regular reviews and updates to the Partner policies and Partnership People handbook.
Manage the Director to Partner promotions process, working closely with the Head of Leadership Development and HR Business Partners accordingly.
Manage and coordinate the execution of the Partner Year End review process, ensuring relevant assets and communications are updated, systems and processes are in place and responding to queries.
Collate, monitor and analyse people data for themes and trends, producing high quality insights as requested.
Support/coordinate/lead on relevant special projects across the Partner Experience Team.
Collaborate and build strong relationships with the Chief People Officer and global HR team for support, guidance, and upskilling opportunities.
Your skills and experience
5+ years’ experience working in a generalist HR role within a fast-paced HR team, specifically with proven employee relations experience and sound knowledge of employment legislation, complex case management and HR best practice.
The ability to adapt experience to a partnership model, including an understanding of (or willingness to quickly build) knowledge of partnership-specific structures such as LLP member agreements, partner governance and exit mechanics, which differ from standard employee contracts.
Proven experience working closely with senior stakeholders across a variety of HR topics
Proven experience in process improvement and automation.
A proactive self-starter who is comfortable operating with ambiguity and takes ownership of problems through to resolution, rather than waiting for direction.
Exercises sound judgement and discretion when handling highly confidential and sensitive partner matters.
Strong Microsoft Office skills including Excel and PowerPoint, with confidence learning and working within HR systems, case management and workflow/automation tools.
Adept at stakeholder management including relationship building, communication and influencing skills.
Highly accountable and organised with rigorous attention to detail.
Emotionally intelligent and able to adapt in emotive and stressful situations.
What a career at Baringa will give you
Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.