St John Ambulance Cymru

HR Business Partner

RGifts

•	Reporting directly to the CEO, responsible for all day-to-day HR Management and Finance within the organisation;
•	Developed and implemented HR and OD Strategy to drive performance;
•	Providing overall leadership and guidance on talent acquisition, career development, succession planning, retention, training, compensation and benefits;
•	Introduced and drove the development of performance management processes including on-boarding, probationary management, performance reviews, end of year appraisals and exit interviews;
•	Directed Employee Relations procedures including TUPE, redundancies, grievances, statutory rights, settlement agreement and absence management;
•	Ensured compliance of regulatory concerns and health and safety protocols;
•	Administered company payroll, benefits packages, corporate events and senior leadership teambuilding; 
•	Re-written all company HR policies to be accurate, updated and correct;
•	Support managers/team leaders to embed a performance culture within the business; providing coaching and 1:1 support and competency frameworks;
•	Partnered and influenced key stakeholders on a number of people priorities and plans.
Key achievements
•	Increased retention by over 30% and reduced absence rates by 80% through various employee engagement, policies and procedures.
•	Reduced workplace incidents by 25%;
•	Increased employee satisfaction ratings by over to 40% to 90%+.

HR Manager

Principality Building Society

•	Lead on delivery of the Society’s Individual Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) and Reverse Stress Testing (RST) which is supported by undertaking detailed stress testing and scenario analysis.
•	Support delivery of the Individual Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ILAAP) and Recovery and Resolution Plan.
•	Enhanced the Society’s financial risk management framework by supporting the effective review of the Society’s Medium-Term Plan and providing risk oversight of financial models.
•	Work with colleagues in the first line to enhance financial models, regulatory returns and financial risk processes and controls.
•	Ensure that all Treasury and Financial models are classified and reviewed in line with business requirements and against required criteria, with outputs being fed into the relevant committee.
•	Review relevant line assumptions and interpretations and challenge the accuracy of returns e.g. COREP, MTP, etc.
•	Interpret and apply new regulatory and audit requirements to ensure the Society is operating a compliant approach to financial risk management.
•	Ad-hoc process and control reviews, thematic analytical reviews and identification and analysis of forthcoming regulatory changes impacting the Society’s financial risk.
•	Working collaboratively with stakeholders from across the organisation including Finance, Risk, Treasury, and the Front Office, as well as the senior management of each entity.
HR responsibilities
•	Assist with team recruitment from start to finish including creating the job advertisement and assessments, reviewing CVs, assist in assessment centre recruitment days, shortlisting and interviewing candidates and providing feedback on interviews.

Financial Risk Analyst

•	Support project lead through ensuring targets were consistently met and prioritised, providing weekly analysis, burndown rates on successful and completed areas of the project;
•	Coordinate projects inclusive of meetings, training, recording and distributing minutes;
•	Assist the project lead in the production and maintenance of project plans whilst developing and maintaining the project library, filing, recording and reporting systems.
•	Shadowed the HR function to understand and map out their current processes. This included working closely with Business Partners, HR Admin and Management teams and the Recruitment department

Process Management Project Support

Legal & General

•	Assisted the team with the recruitment process by reviewing CVs, shortlisting and identifying suitable candidates;
•	Provide one-on-one coaching to assist in improve quality and understanding within the team.
•	Month End reporting for all Legal & General Capital costs;
•	Produce analysis and trend reports and Management Information Packs for senior management to aid decision-making and strategic planning in order to achieve business objectives;
•	Business Partnering – support and manage the review and monitoring of accounting standards, policies and financial controls across the team;
•	Project work – support the management team by undertaking ad-hoc analysis on a number of various projects within the L&G Capital division as well as Group Finance.

Finance Analyst

DS Smith

•	Acted as a link to the HR department, manage the Travel and Fleet system for the UK part of the business, ensuring that all Fleet information is accurate and updated where necessary and the HR database is kept up to date;
•	Worked on a European wide HR and Procurement project as a finance lead, which meant combining my finance, HR and project management skills to improve overall operations within the temporary labour company structure across Europe;
•	Reporting to the Finance Controller, manage all costs within the Group Procurement, analyse all recharges across Europe for Group Procurement and code all recharges to match the budget/forecast costs;
•	Budget formation and forecasting of whole department within the Group Plc function;
•	Presenting at budgetary meetings to the Chief Procurement Officer and department heads to leading on finance communication at workshops;
•	Developed and manage a new reporting system that allows analysis of the Group Procurement division to be split into categories to facilitate detailed category reporting;
•	Developed a new category reporting system which allows all category heads within Procurement to see actual spend vs budget at category level and not just group level;
•	Developed effective networks internally and externally with our stakeholders and customers to ensure the reputation of the company continues to grow.

Finance Business Partner and Project Lead 

Boom Cymru TV Cyf

HR responsibilities
•	Manage team of three finance staff including all development needs;
•	Scheduled calls and interviews whilst working closely with talent agencies and balancing diaries ensuring that all interviewees had the relevant scripts;
•	Responsible for team recruitment, selection and induction activity for both permanent & temporary staff;
•	Sickness and absence monitoring for the team, with monthly reporting to directors;
•	Managed company payroll on a weekly and monthly basis, for both permanent staff and freelance/contract staff, including full understanding of employment rules and regulations;
•	Managed starters/leavers and liaised with HMRC to ensure all requirements were completed in a timely manner;
•	Conduct analysis of training products and provide assessment feedback and recommendations for product improvement and course training development products.

Other Responsibilities
•	Financial control for up to 10 production accounts and main company account with a turnover of over £30m, including bank reconciliation, credit control, sales invoicing, petty cash, sales and purchase ledgers and cash flow management;
•	Managed finance team across both office sites;
•	Investigated project variances and submitted variance reports to management
•	Writing and summarizing financial production progress reports against budget;
•	Tracking activities against the detailed project plan in terms of finance and timing;
•	Reviewed and approved all financial project documentation;
•	Building relationships and liaising with all external parties including banks, auditors, suppliers and government bodies;
•	Implementation of financial controls during a period of substantial growth;
•	Managed the development of Finance and IT systems to improve, automate and simplify processes across the finance department;
•	Contribute to production budget process, working with various production managers to review historical activities, trends, and future obligations.

Office and Finance Manager

New Directions Holdings Ltd

Finance Assistant

Teledu Apollo Cyfyngedig

Responsible for all recruitment and payroll processes. Organise and liaise with talent agencies regarding actors/actresses in terms of interviews, call backs and diary management. Created new HR system for the company, recording all employee details and ensuring that this was up to date with records sent to HMRC.

Office Manager

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

- Responsible for identifying areas of improvements and concerns in business operational areas and provide appropriate strategies to resolve them;
- Responsible for the development and implementation of performance metrics to improve business operational efficiency;
- Responsible for the analysis of business problems to identify the root causes and recommend corrective actions;
- Serve as mentor to colleagues and providing training to fill gap needs.

Performance Analyst

VUE Entertainment

Manage probationary review process, starter/leaver processes, responsible for all recruitment including interviewing and making final decisions. Keep employee files up to date and accurate, payroll duties and responsibilities for up to 20 staff. Created new relevant recruitment and performance KPIs for head office.

Human Resources Manager

Growth-focused, strategic and innovative CIPD qualified professional with strong leadership and business partnership skills. Proven track record in HR and Finance in both large and smaller organisations. Extensive background in project management and employee engagement programmes, who translates business vision into HR initiatives that improves performance, profitability, growth, and employee engagement.

Highly developed interpersonal, analytical and negotiating skills. Ability to craft plans for performance evaluation of staffs, oversee HR initiatives, and communicate with senior management. Expert in hiring, training, and motivating team members. Adept at strengthening good working relations with HR staffs and other departments for business growth.

Genuine influencer who thrives on tough challenges and translates visions and strategies into actionable, value-added goals. Empowering leader who supports companies and top executives with a unique perspective and appreciation that human capital is every organization’s greatest asset.

A few weeks ago, I posted that I'd made the decision to invest in ME and my own development.

Here's the proof. Having completed 8 wonderful weeks of 'How to Become a Strategic HR Partner' with ELEVATE Hub, I truly feel that I've gained so much knowledge and become more focused and confident in my own skills. 

This course gave me a clear understanding of what Strategy is, how to break it down into manageable chunks and how to bring real value to the HRBP role. It gave me various ways to think strategically and broke down the scary thought that goes through so many people's mind around 'what does becoming Strategic mean' and 'How do I become strategic'.

Having worked as a Business Partner for a number of years, this really pushed me to understand what I can bring to my stakeholders and how I can make the difference in my organisation.

Claire Cathcart is a great tutor and I'm so glad that I did sign onto the course and take the time to develop myself. Using her vast experience, some great real life examples, some great presentation slides (that actually made sense) and most importantly having a great group of like minded people to connect with, we bounced ideas off each other and I learnt so much, it really was a great experience.

My only wish was it was 16 weeks and not 8, just so we could keep going with it. If anyone is aspiring to become an HRBP, or just wants to invest in themselves, I can highly recommend this course, and to connect with Claire on LinkedIn.

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Dafydd Sion Assoc CIPD

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