Hr Coordinator
Formula 1Overview
Every one of the people working behind the scenes of Formula 1 are vital to keep the wheels turning. The role of HR Coordinator is an important part of the team.
Working closely with your HR Business Partner, you will provide a high level of HR admin support, together with appropriate guidance, advice and support to managers and staff in your designated business areas.
Based at our Media & Technology Centre in Biggin Hill with occasional travel to our office in St James's Market, you will:
Recruitment
- Maintain contact with prospective new starters from offer through to joining F1.
- Raise new starter forms, ensuring appropriate authorisation is recorded.
- Create job files, file interview notes and generally keep them in order; to also destroy details after 12 months in line with our Candidate Privacy Notice.
- Ensure personal files by setting files up with all relevant information before employee starts.
Welfare
- Support and advise on staff absence, ensuring process is followed and Workday absence is recorded by the manager.
Training
- Support HR Business Partner with training needs analysis meetings with managers and collecting the relevant data to submit to the talent team.
Manage new starter process
- Draft contracts of employment and send with all new starter / onboarding paperwork.
- Follow extensive new starter procedures.
- Enter new start details onto Workday.
- Ensure all paperwork is given to payroll as soon as received from the new starter.
- Carry out new starter inductions and ensure there is new starter paperwork ready.
- Ensure all new starter paperwork in received/chased where appropriate.
Leavers Process
- Write and confirm acceptance of resignation ensuring exit interview is offered.
- Raise Leavers Form and update Workday.
- Calculate leaver’s entitlements for payroll.
- Ensure payroll is advised in a timely manner.
- Archive leaver files on a quarterly basis.
Performance Management
- Provide advise and guidance to managers on probationary period reviews.
- Write and confirm completion/extension with employee and advise of benefits where appropriate.
- Support HR Business Partner as required on performance related matters
Other
- Maintain HR Tracker, for the purposes of accurate monthly statistics, including turnover, average time to hire etc.
- Diarise fixed term contract end dates 6 weeks in advance and confirm if the contract will be renewed or not.
- Administer Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental leave process. Including making sure monthly newsletter goes to those who would like to maintain contact during their absence.
- Complete employment references for leavers (check if we have agreed an enhanced reference upon leaving).
- Act as note-taker in disciplinary/grievance meetings.
- Contribute to HR projects, including updating of policies and procedures and improving HR systems etc.
- Provide support to other team members during busy periods or absence.
- Proactively maintain procedures for your own area of responsibility.
- Assist with processing of departmental paperwork as required.
- File departmental paperwork on a regular basis.
- Input data into Workday and ensure it remains up to date with any changes.
- Complete all mandatory training within specified timelines.
- Operate safely at all times in line with Company health and safety requirements.
- Undertake other duties within your capabilities as your manager/director may assign to you from time to time.
Specification
- Previous experience as a HR Coordinator / Administrator
- Proven administration experience in a busy, fast-paced role
- Basic HR knowledge
- High attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task
- Excellent communication and organisation skills
Be the force behind Formula 1!

Formula One is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one of the premier forms of racing around the world since its inaugural season in 1950.