Laura Gower

Experience

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  Boxmoor Bureau

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2003

  Recruitment Consultant
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  Eckoh Technologies

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  HR Assistant (Maternity Cover)

  Responsible for providing day-to-day administrative support to the HR Manager and all group employees, managers and directors.• Assisting with queries from all group staff and managers.• Main point of contact for all of the company’s recruitment, placing adverts with agencies, online recruitment websites etc.• Organising and attending interviews.• Preparing, issuing and archiving letters of appointment, contracts of employment, disciplinary and grievance matters, notices of dismissal, records of sick, maternity and paternity documents.• Administration for the leaver process.• Ensuring the payroll bureau had the relevant information with regard to joiners, leavers and variations to salaries.• Preparing monthly salary sheets, obtaining authorisations and passing to the Group Accountant for payroll.• Maintaining and monitoring holiday records, including forward bookings and sending a report to management and employees where necessary.• Maintaining personnel database (Sage).• Acting as the first point of contact for queries from staff and management regarding HR issues Show less

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  BSI

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2010

  HR Advisor

  Advising managers at all levels on various all aspects of employee relations.• Accurate input of all payroll information to forward to managed Payroll Company (ADP), including authorisation of overtime forms and tracking sickness & maternity payments. Dealing with any payroll queries from employees and arranging manual payments throughout the month. Responsible for authorisation of payroll for 300 employees.• Responsible for all administration to support HR activities. Ensuring that all procedures are followed and that paperwork is followed through and recorded appropriately.• Issuing contracts of employment and changes to terms and conditions.• First point of contact in providing support and advice to employees and managers on a daily basis.• Supporting line managers in recruitment processes.• Responsible for new staff inductions.• Monitoring and identifying training needs and progress training requirements for courses arranged in-house and externally as a result of staff development programs.• Responsible for updating and maintaining all HR Management Information systems, which includes SAP, Management Statistics, absence recording and for ensuring its accuracy. Proving management information reports, analysis of information and identification of trends. • Ensuring that all HR records are fully maintained• Administering and overseeing the annual pay review process.• Contributing and working in partnership with Group HR in the development of divisional and corporate ‘People’ policies and practices.• Ensuring that sound advice and guidance is provided at all levels of management in matters affecting the employment of staff to ensure that employment legislation is not contravened, and good HR practice is implemented.• Assisting and advising with disciplinary hearings. Show less

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  Dräger

  Nov 2010 - now

  Responsibility for providing a comprehensive and professional Human Resources advice and support service to managers and employees at all levels.The HR Advisor role is to provide a dedicated advisory service to their identified business area. Responsible for maintaining high administrative standards for HR as well as undertaking employee relations activities including disciplinary and grievances, conduct and capability and organisational change.

  • HR Business Partner

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Senior HR Advisor

    Apr 2016 - Oct 2024

  • HR Advisor

    Nov 2010 - Mar 2016