Senior HR Advisor

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in over 260 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing more than one million units/beds globally.

Across its platforms, Greystar has over $79 billion of assets under management, including approximately $36 billion of development assets and over $30 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world‑class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit

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.

• Act as the primary ER lead for UK & I, 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, escalation‑level ER support, coaching managers through difficult conversations, investigations and hearings, and ensuring consistent, fair and commercially balanced outcomes.
• Provide coaching, oversight and quality assurance, and 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 share insight to implement strategies to mitigate further risk.

• Lead on the continuous improvement of HR processes, identifying issues, recommending enhancements, and ensuring process changes are embedded across UK & I operations.
• Take ownership of updating and improving HR policies, ER templates, guidance and toolkits, ensuring they remain legally compliant, practical, and manager‑friendly.

• 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).

• 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 upscale insights to the HRBP(s).

• Excellent communication both verbally and in writing.
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in HR, CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.
• HR advisory experience, ideally in a multicultural,…