Job Description

Are you ready to embark on a rewarding career with East Midlands Railway (EMR) and be part of a team that values diversity and inclusivity? We are proud to be One Team at East Midlands Railway (EMR). We are passionate about keeping people safe, delighting our customers, doing the right thing and putting customers at the heart of our sustainable railway for the East Midlands. With over 2,600 employees, our people are the reason we are so successful and our HR team make a crucial contribution to this. Nine times accredited as a Top Employer and Gold accredited for Inclusive Employers Standards, we value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work.


At EMR we want to proactively embrace diversity across our workforce and recognise that we are under-represented in terms of ethnic minority groups. We're therefore taking positive steps to promote a positive and inclusive culture; we welcome applications from those that identify with these groups to better represent our communities.


We have an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning HR team as a HR Services Assistant. Reporting to the HR Manager, this role is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of HR transactional services for our management teams and colleagues, adopting a continuous improvement philosophy to drive quality and efficiency. The role will provide a professional service focusing on HR processes in accordance with statutory requirements and Company policies and procedures while being the main interface between Payroll and East Midlands Railway.



Responsibilities include:

Becoming a guru in our terms and conditions of employment, in order to provide first line advise on queries from internal stakeholders Be the first point of contact for data held on the HR Systems, supporting data subject access requests and ensuring data is held and distributed in line with GDPR legislation. Working with Transport UK payroll team, ensuring all employees receive the correct pay in a timely way, managing exceptions, collating queries and escalating where appropriate and supporting the administration of pay awards. Proactively seek out opportunities for process improvement across all HR Services processes and sharing knowledge with other members of the HR team. Liaising with third party providers to administrator employee benefits.

We are looking for:



Demonstrable experience in a HR Services Setting Educated to A level or equivalent standard

GCSE Maths and English level 4/C and above CIPD level 3 or equivalent experience An individual with a 'can do' attitude and willingness to be flexible Strong organisational skills and attention to detail Strong written and verbal communication skills An analytical and logical thinker who enjoys process, detail, and continuous improvement Confident manipulating data in excel Well developed use of IT systems including email, Word, Excel and ideally Microsoft forms


Video Interviews are to take place after shortlisting with face to face interviews likely to be held on the 6th and 7th of November.


As well as a competitive salary, we'll also offer you:

Defined benefit pension scheme Hybrid working, we have a fantastic Head office in Derby where you would work from 2-3 days per week, or more should you wish. Free leisure travel on East Midlands Railway and Train Operating Companies under Transport UK First Class Duty Travel on the EMR network Friends and Family discounted tickets on the EMR network 75% discount on national travel (inc partner and dependants) Flexible working hours 32 days holiday per year rising to 34 after 2 years service Holiday purchase scheme ...and many more!

We are open minded to applications from people who wish to have flexible working. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.