HR Assistant

Salary/Rate:£26000 - £28000 per annum
Job type:Perm
Location:Leeds, West Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis is partnering with a fantastic organisation based in North-West Leeds, seeking an HR Assistant to join their team on a permanent, full time basis.

This is a dynamic, hands-on HR position offering the opportunity to deliver professional and comprehensive HR support and guidance across this West Yorkshire business.

What will you be doing?

  • As an HR Assistant, you will be overseeing the complete onboarding process for new employees, ensuring all actions are completed within the agreed SLA and payroll deadlines.
  • Creating and maintaining accurate electronic employee records.
  • Managing SharePoint data to ensure accuracy, as it directly feeds into dashboards and weekly reports.
  • Acting as a key point of contact for stakeholders regarding HR queries related to onboarding, offboarding, and company policies.
  • Administering the offboarding process for leavers, ensuring all steps are completed in line with monthly payroll deadlines.
  • Handling all changes to terms and conditions of employment, including UK transfers, by issuing letters and confirming updates directly with employees.
  • Keeping the HR system up to date with all employee changes, such as cost centre adjustments, term and condition updates, and line manager changes.

What skills are we looking for?

  • Previous experience in a similar role (1-2 years).
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • Strong communication skills and must be comfortable speaking to people at all levels.
  • Excel and DocuSign experience.
  • Right to work knowledge.

What's on offer?

  • £28,000 per annum
  • Hybrid working pattern (3 days in the office, 2 from home).
  • Supportive and sociable working environment.
  • Free on-site parking.

Please send us your CV below or contact Emma Johnsen for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

Job ref: EJ/6429Post Date: 03.12.25

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