Gemma Green

Gemma Green

HR Assistant

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  • About me

    Senior People Adviser at Grant Thornton

  • Education

    • Northumbria University

      2002 - 2006
      BA HRM
    • Northumbria University

      2010 - 2012
      LLM Employment law in practise
  • Experience

    • Centre for Life

      Sept 2004 - Jul 2006
      HR Assistant

      • Issuing and amending contracts of employment and other contractual changes to new employees and existing staff.• Deputising for the HR Manager two days out of five.• Working closely with SM such as Company Secretary, Director and CEO.• Administer and monitor recruitment and selection campaigns, including interviewing.• Induction of new starters.• Recording and monitoring holiday leave and sick leave of all employees.• Note taking for ER issues. • Co-ordinating training sessions both internally and externally. • Producing board papers.• Responding to various claims through our insurers.• Construction of a computerised filing system for all legal files, board papers and HR files.• Setting up and maintaining HR filing systems, correspondence and databases. • Issuing, ordering and monitoring all of the employee uniform. Show less

    • Sage

      Aug 2006 - Sept 2013

      • Support the HR Business Partners with implementation of people initiatives to deliver HR plans and align the HR vision with the needs of the business. • Management and people development responsibility for the HR administration team.• Build relationships and influence management teams to drive forward change and engagement across the business.• Provide Management Information to give operational areas visibility and drive focus and improvement whilst identifying patterns and trends to prompt ideas for change.• Coach, develop, advise and support managers in all ER matters including capability, conduct (up to termination) and employment legislation, with a priority focus upon them taking accountability for their people.• Support and drive our performance and absence management systems.• Liaison with external providers for PHI, Rehabilitation and Occupational Health in line with the management of short and long term absence and performance issues.• Deliver HR workshops to various levels of management.• Work closely with the wider HR team such as Recruitment and L&D to ensure consistent delivery of exceptional customer experience. • Understand reward and recognition programmes in line with organisational need to ensure fairness and consistency across departmental functions. Show less • Researching and advising on changing employment legislation.• Proposing changes to Company policy up to leadership level. • Drafting the content of UK wide people policies in line with the Company brand.• Consulting with all key stakeholders, including employee representatives, in the creation of new, or updates to policy. • Launching new policies and communicating updates to policy, ensuring compliance if necessary.• Co-ordinating feedback and supporting with policy evaluation.• Working in partnership with the HR team on policy changes, providing tools and processes to help deliver chnage. • Help design and support delivery of engaging and innovative workshops and guidance materials for line managers.• Research, create and deliver employment law updates to the HR team and wider business, including legislative and statutory changes and case law development. • Ensure policy developments link in with the ongoing development of our L&D suites. Show less Full range of administrative support for HR colleagues and line management, including general correspondence and reporting on people data. Advice and guidance to employees and line management on a range of ER issues. Support managers in absence management; log, monitor and analyse individual employee absence. Completion of GP and rehabilitation services reports. Support managers in disciplinary hearings, appeal meetings, preliminary investigation meetings, grievances and welfare visits. Support HR Advisors in the implementation of changes within the business. Administer leaver process including conducting exit interviews. Responsible for maternity and paternity process. Submission of monthly payroll amendments and respond to basic payroll queries. All employee contractual changes. Use of HR, absence, payroll and recruitment systems to update employee records. Active support in redundancy programmes when necessary. Recruitment administrative support. Show less

      • HR Advisor

        Sept 2011 - Sept 2013
      • Policy Advisor

        Sept 2009 - Aug 2011
      • HR Administrator

        Aug 2006 - Sept 2009
    • Piramal Enterprises Limited

      Apr 2014 - Aug 2017
      HR Advisor

      - Provide information and best practice advice on HR and legal matters, subsequently advising on the correct implementation and application of process and advising on actions to maintain our competitive position; suggesting, creating, amending, implementing and communicating necessary changes to Policy.- Provide support to Managers on HR best practice, employment law and people management issues, including, for example;o Discipline (facilitating such hearings and or investigations)o Grievance (facilitating such hearings and or investigations)o Shift changeso Flexible working requestso Absence Management, working closely with the in-house Occupational Health Nurse. o Redundancyo Performance managemento Employee relationso Employee engagement- Reporting HR data on a regular and ad-hoc basis to support business decision making, andmanagement to both UK and Indian Leaderships teams. - Recruitment Management of full process end to end of both permanent and temporary roles.- Benchmark with other Companies on good practice, HR initiatives, Company and employees benefits.- Actively work with the works council on raised and potential issues- Ability to influence and drive change Show less

    • RSM UK

      Dec 2017 - Mar 2023
      • Engagement and Policy Advisor

        Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
      • HR Advisor

        Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
    • Grant Thornton UK LLP

      Mar 2023 - now
      Senior People Adviser
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Associate Member

      CIPD
      Jul 2006
    • First Aider

      Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England
      Oct 2018