HR Administration Apprentice

Job Description

The HR Administration Apprentice will work closely with the other HR Teams including HR Advisers, HR Specialists, the HR Operations Managers and other key stakeholders across the wider HR area.

Your daily activities may include:

• Assisting the HR Operations area with general admin tasks and processes.
• Responding to internal colleagues queries and picking up operational transactions, ensuring accurate completion within agreed service levels.
• Preparing and issuing recruitment contracts and offer letters to all new hires.
• Assisting with candidates screening process including escalations where appropriate to ensure completion prior to join dates.
• Monitoring of onboarding enquiries and processes ensuring accurate completion within agreed service levels.
• Updating HR and pay related data changes in the HR system (Workday).
• Providing HR & pay related guidance to the business colleagues.
• Providing project support to the other HR Teams including testing the HR technology processes and systems.
• Uploading content onto the People Hub knowledge database.
• Supporting recruitment onboarding process including ‘right to work’ checks and other regulatory requirements.
• Assisting with management information and data reports
• Identifying improvements in our HR processes.
• Working collaboratively with HR and business colleagues.

About M&G plc

M&G plc is an international savings and investments business, managing money for around 5 million retail customers and more than 800 institutional clients in 28 markets. As at 30 June 2022, we had £348.9 billion of assets under management and administration. Our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly.

With a heritage dating back more than 170 years, M&G plc has a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. We serve our retail and savings customers under the M&G Wealth and Prudential brands in the UK and Europe, and under the M&G Investments brand for asset management clients globally.

At M&G our vision is: to become the best loved and most successful savings and investment business and we are looking for people who are excited about joining us on our journey.

To help us achieve our vision we are looking for exceptional people who live our values and behaviours:

• Inspire Others - Support and encourage each other, creating an environment where everyone can contribute and succeed
• Embrace Change - Be open to change, willing to be challenged and able to adapt quickly and imaginatively to latest ideas
• Deliver Results - Focus on outcomes, set high standards and deliver with energy and determination
• Keep it Simple - Cut through complexity and bureaucracy, be clear and decisive and never over complicate things

We know that an inclusive environment makes us more accessible and ensures we attract, engage, promote, and retain exceptional people. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity/nationality, disability, or military service and welcome those who have taken career breaks. We will consider flexible working arrangements.

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