Beth Sawyer Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

As the HR contact for the UK Secretarial population and Finance department, I advise on a broad range of HR matters, including:- Partnering with managers to build strong relationships, working closely with global counterparts, to ensure consistent support allowing the departments to function and grow as truly global teams; - Headcount planning and recruitment, supporting managers and the Recruitment team on budgetary approvals, salary benchmarking and reviewing JDs;- Sickness absence advise, reviewing OH recommendations, ensuring reasonable adjustments are made, managing long-term absences and GIP claims with insurers;- Advise on various ER processes including probationary meetings & performance concerns; - Advise on the Firm’s policies and procedures and their application in a range of scenarios;- Flexible working requests, ensuring the best outcome for all is achieved;- Contribute to cyclical annual HR processes, including talent mapping (9-Box Grid model), salary review, promotions and the launch of a new performance review process;- Present the Firm’s weekly HR Induction; and - Oversee the HR Coordinator and HR Assistant, ensuring all administrative activities for my groups are completed in a timely manner and documentation produced is of the highest standard - mentoring and training where appropriate.

London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities including and in addition to the duties listed below as HR Administrator:- New joiner catch-ups and exit interviews for junior to mid-level employees, reporting feedback to HRBPs;- Working with the HR Manager for HR, as a team of two providing full support as ‘HR for HR’;- Parental leave process;- Sickness absence queries including referrals to Occupational Health;- Coordinating the annual salary review process, scheduling meetings and preparing data to assist the HRBPs;- Promotions process coordination; - Assisting with redundancy processes, both collective and individual. Drafting settlement agreements and calculating redundancy packages;- First line HR queries, escalating as appropriate to the relevant HRBP; and- Recruitment for HR roles, including posting jobs on the ATS, screening CVs, booking interviews, liaising with agencies, and drafting offer paperwork.

Sitting within the UK Business Services and Secretarial team (c. 400 staff), responsibilities included:- First point of contact for any HR queries;- Onboarding (including consultants, agency temps & internal moves). - Processing all leavers actions; - Monthly Payroll changes and liaising with Payroll Manager on ad-hoc payroll queries;- Probation process for new joiners;- Variation of contract administration, including FTC extensions, title and department changes secondments and relocations;- Note-taking and administration for various ER issues, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance management and redundancies;- Maintain employee data on the HR system (HR Select, then PeopleSoft);- Responsibility for the Business Services e-files for the twice-annual external ISO audit; and- Various other administrative tasks, including but not limited to sickness reporting, jury service, references, reports, and discussion forums.

BLP merged with Bryan Cave in 2018 to become BCLP

Ibm Hursley

Year long placement as part of my undergraduate degree. Responsible for the onboarding process and induction of all non-GBS Graduates (c. 170 employees).Responsibilities included:- Securing induction locations;- Liaising with graduates before starting and completing all pre-employment HR processes;- Responsible for the smooth running of week-long inductions, solo presenting a number of sessions for 30+ graduates;- Being the go-to person for all UK Graduates and supporting the 'Foundation' managerial team; - Contributed to project work on process improvements in the Foundation Team (e.g. new internal intranet pages); and- Organised and tracked the internal review process for IBM Graduates.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Chichester

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Economics, 1St Class (Hons)

Graduated with a First Class degree (78%). Part of 'Surrey STARS' (Surrey Top Achievers Recognised and Supported). First Year Modules.

Education record

A Level Economics (A) A Level Mathematics (B) A Level English Literature(B) AS Level Physics (B) AS Level Accounting (B)

High School

GCSE: 5 A*s including Maths and English Language, 6 As and 1 B