Senior Employee Relations Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – APAC

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🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

💵 $46.5k - $117.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Remote is a global HR platform that simplifies the process of hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying employees and contractors worldwide. It offers comprehensive solutions for recruitment, payroll management, contractor management, and compliance. The platform supports businesses in handling HR tasks seamlessly and efficiently, ensuring fast and compliant payouts, providing employer of record services, and facilitating employee benefits and equity offerings. Additionally, Remote integrates with various HR systems, allowing for a flexible, scalable, and reliable solution for businesses looking to expand globally.

📋 Description

• Independently manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions. • Advise clients on termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes. • Lead client and external employee meetings, including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, settlements, and termination outcomes. • Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations involving multiple stakeholders. • Coordinate with payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions, and other stakeholders on offboarding compliance and audits. • Draft, tailor, and administer termination and supplementary documents while maintaining accurate, confidential employee records. • Process offboarding in Remote’s internal HRIS and collaborate with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams. • Serve as an informal escalation point, providing expertise, mentoring, and guidance to junior team members. • Provide first-level Employee Relations guidance and help clients navigate complex workplace concerns. • Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns, identifying facts, applicable regulations, and potential paths forward. • Track employee relations cases and coordinate timely follow-up with relevant stakeholders. • Resolve internal and external queries on offboarding and first-level employee relations matters. • Identify and drive process improvements, automation, product development, and customer and employee experience enhancements. • Determine methods, procedures, and standards for new assignments using judgment and complex evaluation criteria. • Report to the Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle. • Proven experience independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance. • Experience providing comprehensive HR advice and guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions. • Understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals. • Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments and analyze complex HR issues. • Ability to independently research issues, translate findings into usable team resources, and provide practical solutions. • Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills. • Ability to independently lead difficult conversations toward positive outcomes while maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality. • Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English; additional languages considered a plus. • Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation, and championing best practices. • Efficiency in operations, thorough record-keeping, and data integrity awareness. • Tech-savvy and able to collaborate asynchronously using various tools and adapt to evolving systems. • Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment. • Willingness to work flexible hours as needed. • Proactive, self-motivated, with strong ownership and accountability. • Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency. • Tertiary qualifications in HR/labour relations/employment law considered a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• work from anywhere • flexible paid time off • flexible working hours (we are async) • 16 weeks paid parental leave • budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships) • mental health support services • stock options • home office budget & IT equipment • life-work balance emphasis • employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) • accommodation support during interviews and beyond