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About the Role

This role supports a change management project to streamline HR operations, focusing on organising. The Junior HR Business Partner will provide critical administrative, auditing, and coordination support, while also leading on employee relations (ER) cases and applying employment law knowledge to ensure best practice and legal compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Audit and cleanse employee data across HRIS and shared folders to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Digitise and standardise HR documentation (contracts, letters, checklists) and ensure proper filing.
• Maintain naming conventions, version control, and user access across shared drives and systems.
• Track and manage key lifecycle events (e.g., onboarding, probation, contract changes, leavers).
• Support updates to employee records and HR systems during onboarding and offboarding.
• Lead onER cases such as advising managers and handling documentation in line with policy and UK employment law.
• Prepare and issue formal documents (e.g., outcome letters, meeting invites) and take notes in ER meetings as needed.
• Maintain legally compliant and audit-ready ER case files, tracking case progression and outcomes.
• Conduct regular compliance checks (e.g., right-to-work, contract status, policy acknowledgment).
• Ensure GDPR compliance and secure handling of confidential employee information.
• Support implementation of a reorganised structures.
• Map current vs. desired document workflows and contribute to streamlined, scalable solutions.
• Prepare user-friendly process guides, training materials, and comms to support rollout and adoption.
• Monitor project progress, log issues, and gather feedback from HR and business stakeholders.

About You

The essentials:

• HRBP/HR Advisor experience in fast-paced, international/matrix environments
• Knowledge of employment laws and ER case management
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
• High discretion and professionalism in handling sensitive info
• Experience using Workday HRIS

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.