Royal Bank of Canada

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Employee Relations Advisor role provides advice and support to managers, employees and HR Business Partners on a wide variety of Employee Relations topics with the aim of providing a fair and transparent employee experience while managing risk to RBC by ensuring compliance with policy and business practices, regulatory requirements and applicable legislation.

The role will report to a Director within the UK ER team.

This position is full time and will require you to work a minimum of 4 days in the office per week with the option to work one day from home.

This is a 12 month FTC position.

What will you do?

Employee conduct & risk culture

• Provide expert advice to ensure consistent application of RBC’s Code of Conduct and policy requirements across a wide range of ER topics including grievances, disciplinaries, investigations, absence management and occupational health matters, restructuring advice and appeal processes
• Conduct and provide support on investigations into Code of Conduct/Respectful Workplace matters
• Work with HR Business Partners and key business stakeholders to effectively manage employee workplace issues.

Relationship management

• Provide timely advice, counsel and information to people managers (including senior leaders and executives) to assist them in managing and resolving a wide range of complex employee issues and concerns
• Build and maintain key relationships with businesses and functions influencing and negotiating while being viewed as a true partner
• Collaborate and support the wider ER team and HR Business Partners on all ER topics.

Operational excellence

• Appropriately track matters within ER’s case management system to ensure accurate reporting and enable identification of trends and emerging issues (including identification of potential root causes to assist with incorporating lessons learned into future work)
• Manage risk and improve manager and employee experience through enabling and ensuring well informed, fair and transparent decisions
• Support the ER Directors and Head of ER for UK, Europe and APAC in the development and maintenance of ER template documents and policies.

Additional Projects

• Support and assist with projects across the ER mandate.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• Experience working within Employee Relations and/or Law Group in Financial or Professional Services
• Strong reporting and data analysis skills
• Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills and good attention to detail
• A strong understanding of Employment legislation and the applicable regulatory framework
• Experience in supporting workplace investigations including identifying issues for investigation, drafting investigation reports and making recommendations based on report conclusions.

What is in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Opportunities to work with the best in the field
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services.

Agency Notice

RBC Group does not accept agency resumés. Please do not forward resumés to our employees, nor any other company location. RBC Group only pay fees to agencies where they have entered into a prior agreement to do so and in any event do not pay fees related to unsolicited resumés. Please contact the Recruitment function for additional details.

Job Skills

Employee and Labor Relations, Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Goal Setting, HR Legal, Human Resources Consulting, Human Resources Operations, Human Resources Policies, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Organizational Savvy and Politics

Additional Job Details

Address:

100 BISHOPSGATE:LONDON

City:

London

Country:

United Kingdom

Work hours/week:

35

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

HUMAN RESOURCES & BMCC

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-06-19

Application Deadline:

2025-07-03

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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