Senior Consultant, HR Advisory, Consulting

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

With over 1,000 professionals in the UK, our Human Capital practice is renowned for providing distinctive depth and breadth of HR and Organisational Transformation services to clients undertaking complex major programmes.

Our HR Consulting offering consistently innovates and drives HR and Workforce Transformation for some of the largest UK public sector organisations and well-known global brands. In HR Consulting, you will be joining a rapidly growing part of the business that partners with our clients to help them with HR Transformation and transitioning to the Future of Work. This could be building a new people and workforce strategy, employee brand, employee value proposition, reward model, implementing a new HR operating model, redesigning end to end talent processes, development and capability pathways and everything in between.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

Senior Consultants are responsible for contributing to delivering high quality client work, business development and practice development. You will be a key member of any client facing team. Working as a member of a project team involved in delivering HR Strategy and Transformation for large scale multinationals, or support delivery of specialist HR projects in a particular focus area (e.g. Shared Service Centre design, Robotics or Technology selection).

As a Senior Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Carrying out research, data collection and analysis, applying rigorous logic to deliver insight and innovative solutions to clients;
• Interviewing client employees and managers and facilitating meetings and workshops;
• Assisting in the preparation of high quality deliverables such as documents and presentations which present client recommendations;
• Working with Client counterparts on scoping pieces of work including gathering requirements, gathering feedback and input for workshops or meetings and checking understanding
• Overseeing junior members of the team specifically Analysts and the deliverables they are responsible for
• Owning and leading work streams of activity within client engagements and managing teams of Consultants and Analysts;
• Developing client relationships through effective stakeholder engagement
• Assisting with developing new business by actively contributing to proposals and bids;
• Identifying and suggesting ways to win new business;
• Contributing to the development of new HR propositions to support our clients and grow our business;
• Actively involved in the running of the practice.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

General HR experience:

• Demonstrate a clear understanding of HR and the function it performs in a business context
• Awareness of HR and related sector market trends and a passion and appetite to explore further and bring new thinking into everyday
• Have a proven track record of contributing to the delivery of HR related workstreams and deliverables
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: HR operations, HR transformation programmes, enabling HR technologies, shared services, HR organisation design or a specialist HR area (e.g. learning, recruitment, benefits, reward, performance and talent)

Consulting skills and experience:

• Excellent facilitation, communication and data analysis skills and have an ability to influence others;
• Be able to apply knowledge and expertise in a range of client scenarios, focusing on high quality even in high pressured, time critical situations;
• Demonstrate personal insight and good judgement when solving business issues;
• Be able to build client and internal networks based on credibility and trust;
• Have experience of managing client expectations and relationships;
• Be willing to work collaboratively, build relationships and contribute to the positive and supportive culture of the practice;
• Possess the ability and willingness to contribute to business development, through supporting bids for new business.

Strategic Advisory Experience:

• Proven ability to assess and deliver new HR service delivery and HR operating models considering business demands and more efficient ways of working
• Experience of working with new HR Technology and experience of analysis of an organisation's HR requirements, employee experience, processes and pain points to ensure the identification and implementation of the most suitable enabling technology
• Ability to assess the implications of M&A transactions from an HR perspective, and to manage HR transition activity through an integration/ carve out; TUPE knowledge and experience a plus
• Strategic analysis of future HR capabilities and trends and implementing these to improve business performance and the employee experience

Connect to your business - Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."

-Dan, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities based in Belfast, with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both an online and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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