# HR Advisor **Company**: Thomson Reuters **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: contract **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Sweden-Gothenburg/HR-Advisor--People-Governance-and-Compliance--fixed-term-_JREQ204584?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7c173fba-3c9 ## Description Join a high-impact People Governance & Compliance team to deliver consistent, risk-informed and scalable outcomes across jurisdictions. As an HR Advisor, you will provide specialist operational support and day-to-day advisory on HR policies and processes. You will serve as a primary point of contact for employees and managers in Sweden and the wider region, ensuring the effective application of HR fundamentals, risk mitigation, and compliance. **Key Responsibilities** - Provide timely, accurate and policy-aligned guidance to managers and employees on local HR policies and procedures - Build subject-matter expertise in a core compliance area (Immigration, Sickness & Occupational Health, or Leave & Family policies), ensuring consistent and legally robust advice in partnership with the EMEA Advisory team - Own and manage Tier 2 HR case management, handling more complex queries and escalations with strong judgement, ensuring consistent resolution, risk mitigation, and policy adherence - Support Employee Relations cases as a skilled and reliable note-taker, maintaining high-quality, confidential and audit-ready documentation - Partner with HRBPs and Advisory Teams to design and deliver training on HR policies, procedures, and Workday, strengthening manager capability and policy adherence - Act as a trusted contact for employee benefits queries, providing clear, accurate and responsive support - Support redundancy and restructuring processes through accurate preparation of documentation and calculations, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation - Provide support on Workday queries, guiding users effectively through processes and system use - Work closely with Payroll and Global HR Services to ensure employee lifecycle changes are processed accurately, consistently, and within agreed timelines - Contribute to HR projects and initiatives, bringing a continuous improvement mindset and a focus on standardisation and scalability - Maintain employee records to the highest standards of data integrity and GDPR compliance - Actively champion the adoption of AI and approved digital tools, embedding them into daily HR practices to drive efficiency, insight, and improved employee experience **Required Qualifications** - Min. 3 years of experience as an HR Generalist/Advisor, ideally in a complex, matrixed environment - Nordics labor law knowledge and understanding - Solid understanding of HR policies, procedures, and legal frameworks, with the ability to apply them confidently in practice - Strong judgement and attention to detail, particularly in handling sensitive cases and maintaining compliance standards - Hands-on experience with Workday or similar HR systems, with the ability to support and guide others - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate policy into clear, practical guidance - Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment - Track record of implementing and reinforcing policy and compliance standards with credibility - Interest in AI, automation, and digital HR tools, with a proactive approach to learning and adoption - Swedish language capability required **Benefits** - Hybrid Work Model: flexible hybrid working environment - Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way programme - Career Development and Growth: Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach - Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive benefit plans - Culture: award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more - Social Impact: Social Impact Institute and opportunities for volunteer work ## Skills ### Required - HR policies - procedures - legal frameworks - Workday - communication - organisational skills - AI - automation - digital HR tools - Swedish ### Nice to have - Finnish --- Source: [Apply at thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Sweden-Gothenburg/HR-Advisor--People-Governance-and-Compliance--fixed-term-_JREQ204584?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)