The Senior HR Advisor will act as a trusted HR partner to UK & Ireland Property Operations, providing expert support across the full employee lifecycle with a primary focus on Employee Relations. The role leads on complex and high-volume ER casework across Student and Multifamily operations, ensuring consistent, legally compliant and people centred outcomes. There will be a requirement to support the Corporate Operations from time to time.
Want to make an application Make sure your CV is up to date, then read the following job specs carefully before applying.Key ResponsibilitiesEmployee Relations
- Act as the primary ER lead for UK & IE, providing authoritative guidance on complex, high‑risk and sensitive ER matters, and setting standards for best practice across Student and Multifamily operations
- Serve as a trusted expert in UK & IE employment law, advising managers and senior stakeholders on risk management, legal implications, and strategic options
- Provide second‑line and escalation‑level ER support, coaching managers through difficult conversations, investigations and hearings, and ensuring consistent, fair and commercially balanced outcomes
- Provide coaching, oversee and quality‑assure the full lifecycle of ER cases handled by the HR Advisor, ensuring documentation, timelines and recommendations meet high standards
- Partner closely with HRBPs on restructures, TUPE, Mergers & Acquisitions, Disposals, organisational change and other programmes requiring advanced ER expertise
- Build strong, influential relationships across Operations, becoming a go‑to advisor for onsite leaders and a driver of positive workplace culture and management capability
- Identify case trends and work with business partners to sharing insight to implement strategies to mitigate further risk.
Process improvement
- Lead on the continuous improvement of HR processes, identifying issues, recommending enhancements, and ensuring process changes are embedded across UK & IE operations
- Take ownership of updating and improving HR policies, ER templates, guidance and toolkits, ensuring they remain legally compliant, practical, and manager‑friendly
General administration
- Work with UK & IE, and EU Shared Services teams to ensure compliance with SLAs in delivering a seamless service to team members.
- Respond to employee queries, resolve issues, and communicate outcomes effectively
- Processing and oversight of monthly payroll changes ensuring accuracy on complex cases (e.g. sick pay, contractual changes, TUPE movements)
General HR Operations Leadership
- Provide leadership, coaching and quality assurance to the EU Shared Services team and HR Advisor, ensuring work is accurate, timely and aligned with Greystar standards
- Draft, review and quality check HR documents involving elevated risk or sensitivity (e.g., disciplinary outcomes, settlement documentation inputs, complex contract variations)
- Maintain high standards of compliance, reporting and audit readiness across all HR related record keeping
- Monitor HR activity trends (ER themes, absence patterns, turnover drivers) and proactively escalate insights to the HRBPs
About You
You’re an experienced HR Advisor with a strong grounding in UK employment law and hands‑on experience supporting fast‑paced, international teams. CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent), you’re confident developing and applying HR policies, handling complex employee relations cases, and working closely with payroll and recruitment to keep things running smoothly.
You’re organised, detail‑focused, and comfortable juggling multiple priorities while handling sensitive information with care. Calm under pressure and positive in your approach, you support change initiatives with confidence and good judgement. A natural collaborator with a strong service mindset, you build trusted relationships across the business. Experience with HR systems such as Workday or Dayforce, Irish employment law, or sectors like property, retail, or hospitality is a strong plus.
What We Offer
We include a range of benefits for our corporate team members, including competitive pension, healthcare, and holiday allowance, amongst others as standard. Please reach out if you are keen to know more.
About Greystar
Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. The company’s business model is unique in its ability to own, operate, and develop multifamily, student, and senior housing across the globe. Building a global platform with a local presence, Greystar continues to expand its geographic reach around the world, bringing a globally interconnected professional rental housing platform and industry funded with institutional capital to countries where the sector does not yet exist. Greystar’s pan – European platform was established in 2013 and has scaled rapidly, now with investment, operational and development presence in the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Spain.
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