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Megan Leamy

Summary

I am a graduate with a First Class Honours Degree in International Business, with a varied background in HR and experience working in many industries such as: Biomedical Research, FMCG manufacturing, personal care and retail. I also have a range of experience, including experience with systems such as: SDWorx, Workday and ServiceNow.

My main personal characteristics are that I'm self motivated and strive for success in everything I do whilst still being aware that being part of a powerful team is the key to success. I am also a very organised and

compassionate person which pairs well with a customer and people focussed career.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work history

People Coordinator

The Francis Crick Institute
London
2025.04 - Current
  • Handled sensitive information confidentially, maintaining employee privacy rights.
  • Conducted new hire orientations and prepared onboarding packages to instil company values and expectations.
  • Streamlined procedures and processes
  • Liaised with a variety of stakeholders across the business encouraging communication and positive
  • Trained a new team on ways of working, SOPs and business acumen.
  • Handled end to end process mangment for several projects, including a structured remodel of all SOPs
  • Led visa application processing, including case initiation, documentation assessment, and final review, for a variety of visa types

Operations Specialist - Payroll

Asda
Leeds
2024.05 - 2025.03

After my contract as a policy analyst ended, I was offered another role within Asda within Payroll. My main duties include:

  • Reporting through SDWorx and Workday.
  • Answering queries through ServiceNow.
  • Creation and distribution of Universal Credit letters.
  • Parental leave calculations and reporting
  • Analysis of reports such as: allowances and pay groups.
  • Any other ad hoc payroll duties.

Policy Advisor

Asda
Leeds, West Yorkshire
2023.07 - 2024.05

I was hired at Asda to work on a large scale project separating them from Walmart. This was the biggest project within Europe and an honour to be a part of. It provided me with amazing opportunities and allowed me to work with a variety of stakeholders in a very fast paced environment.

My main duties included:

  • Analysing and rewriting a range of policies within tight deadlines.
  • Liaising with many stakeholders including Legal, Compliance and Privacy teams.
  • Staying up to date with recent legislation to ensure policies were compliant.
  • Answering and assisting with complex employee relations queries regarding relevant policies
  • Drive engagement and training for all relevant policies.
  • Work collaboratively as a team to reach deadlines.

HR Administrator

Hothouse Beauty Ltd
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
2020.05 - 2022.12

My key achievements at Hothouse Beauty include: the implementation and maintenance of a new HR system, assisting on ER related issues such as grievances and dismissals, and owning the entire employee life cycle process. Also, during my time at Hothouse Beauty I have gained fantastic experience in other departments such as: sales, marketing, operations and finance.

My other duties and responsibilities include:

  • Implemented a monthly wellbeing programme - this included having a monthly budget and arranging activities to allow the team to interact and improve morale. Eg. local food businesses, coffee mornings, staff parties, corporate massage scheme ect.
  • Planning events for 120 plus colleagues, both internal and external
  • Assisting in the ISO 22716 audits
  • Helped recruit for 40+ roles across a range of departments
  • Conducted and collated engagement surveys to rate employee satisfaction and highlight the areas we could improve.
  • Prepared monthly payroll reports
  • Organised a COVID-19 lateral flow testing programme that spanned over 4 months
  • Maintained and implemented an employee benefits system
  • Helped create and communicate company core values and vision. This included a launch with company merchandise, branded biscuits and descriptions of how the values are relevant.
  • Organised and participated in company interdepartmental training
  • Organised mental health first aider and management training to promote awareness for wellbeing - including focus on monthly wellbeing days and how to improve work life stress.
  • Helped with site relocation including redundancy calculations

Finance Assistant

Canal and River Trust
Leeds, West Yorkshire
2018.06 - 2018.09

Below are a list of my key duties and responsibilities:
• Raising sales invoices
• Maintaining excel databases

• Cash allocation
• General post room duties
• Service charges
• Taking customer payments

• Use of SAP system

Sales Assistant

Debenhams
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
2017.01 - 2018.01

Sales Assistant

Dorothy Perkins
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
2016.01 - 2017.01

Education

1st Class BA Hons - International Business

Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
/2018 - /2022

A-Levels -

New College Pontefract
Pontefract
/2016 - /2018

GCSEs - GCSEs

Kettlethorpe High School, A Specialist Maths and Computing College
Wakefield
/2011 - /2016

Skills

  • Key Skills gained:
  • Understanding of key functions and processes within international businesses
  • Developed application of analytical and critical thinking
  • Effective collaboration through many group projects
  • Experience delivering business presentations
  • Proficiency in all areas of Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
  • Experience with systems, including SDWorx, Service Now, Workday and People HR
  • Experience working with a range of departments and roles

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

People Coordinator

The Francis Crick Institute
2025.04 - Current

Operations Specialist - Payroll

Asda
2024.05 - 2025.03

Policy Advisor

Asda
2023.07 - 2024.05

HR Administrator

Hothouse Beauty Ltd
2020.05 - 2022.12

Finance Assistant

Canal and River Trust
2018.06 - 2018.09

Sales Assistant

Debenhams
2017.01 - 2018.01

Sales Assistant

Dorothy Perkins
2016.01 - 2017.01

1st Class BA Hons - International Business

Sheffield Hallam University
/2018 - /2022

A-Levels -

New College Pontefract
/2016 - /2018

GCSEs - GCSEs

Kettlethorpe High School, A Specialist Maths and Computing College
/2011 - /2016
Megan Leamy