Senior HR Advisor

About the Role & Team
Be you, be here, be part of the story!

At The Walt Disney Company, magic is more than just a word; it's a way of life. For a century, we've been inspiring imaginations, celebrating diversity, and bringing families together through our beloved stories, characters, and experiences. From our iconic theme parks and resorts to our groundbreaking films, television shows, interactive media and products, we're dedicated to creating magic that knows no bounds.

We are looking for an experienced Senior HR Advisor to make a meaningful impact and be part of our dynamic team.

Join us in shaping the magic behind the scenes!

The successful Senior HR Advisor will play a key role within our Business Partner team, providing proactive and commercially focused support to relevant business areas. The role works globally and needs to develop key relationships with UK, US and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) stakeholders.

As a Senior HR Advisor, the individual will undertake an active role in the day-to-day business support and advice across the employee lifecycle and HR initiatives including recruitment, change management, talent planning, annual compensation planning, diversity and inclusion initiatives and employee relations.

For this role to succeed the Senior HR Advisor must develop close working relationships with the HR Business Partners to execute the business and HR objectives, providing appropriate escalation when necessary.

The role will also interface with HR Center of Excellence’s (COEs) and HR Operations team to leverage specialist resources and advice as required in Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Compensation & Benefits, and Global HR Operations.

This is an office-based role. 4 days working in the Hammersmith, London office with 1 day working from home (Monday or Friday).

What You Will Do

• Provide a trusted HR advisory service and administrative support across multiple client groups and segments, act as a first point of contact to UK employees and leaders within Technology and Enabling Functions on a range of HR generalist matters relating to the employee lifecycle.

• Work with the Senior and HR Business Partner to support the business client groups and key stakeholders to deliver against the TWDC business and HR strategy.

• Support the HR Business Partners by facilitating and coordinating the maintenance of critical HR information and processes including headcount management, organization charts, key recruitment metrics, ER case management, reward data.

• Assist the deliverable of annual HR processes, such as salary and bonus review, talent planning, commitment setting and quality conversations, intern enrolment, induction programme etc.

• Own end to end ER cases, including performance improvement plans, flexible working requests, disciplinary, grievance, and sickness absence.

• Support the exit interview process, ensuring conversations are managed by the appropriate level within the Team.

• Support managers with Headcount Management processes on areas such as repurposing roles, monitoring where roles are needing help to move for approval, and support on use of the Workday system.

• Act as liaison point and build strong relationships with HR Centre’s of Excellence; Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, GHRO, Organisation Management.

• Take full ownership for maintaining and updating organisation structure charts in the Employee system of record (Workday) for the relevant business area.

• Responsible for ensuring the accuracy of headcount requests, records in Workday and acting as a key liaison point for the Compensation team, also providing an interface with GHRO on administrative areas such as contracts, letters, employee changes etc.

• Involvement in wider HR team projects and initiatives such as reorganisations, DE&I, Employee Engagement, etc.

• Deputise for the HRBPs, where appropriate.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Experience of multi-national, matrix based, commercial organizations

• Experience working with Technology and Enabling Functions client groups preferable

• Proven generalist HR advisory experience

• CIPD qualified or studying towards

Skills Required

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Excellent communications skills

• Excellent attention to detail

• Ability to remain calm under pressure and to cope with people in emotive situations

• Able to work autonomously

• Able to multi-task and prioritize workloads given by multiple stakeholders

• Able to work with all levels in the organisation and with stakeholders across the world

• IT savvy across core business applications and remote working tools (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Slack, Zoom)

The Perks

• 25 days annual leave

• Private medical insurance & dental care

• Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free

• Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing

• Excellent parental and guardian leave

• Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.