Senior HR Specialist, Employee Relations – APAC

🔥 20 hours ago

🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

💵 $46.5k - $117.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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Remote

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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

• 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 workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, and termination outcome meetings. • Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations involving competing stakeholder interests. • 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 confidential employee records. • Process offboarding through Remote’s internal HRIS platform and coordinate with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams. • Serve as an informal escalation point, mentoring and guiding junior team members. • Provide first-level Employee Relations guidance and help clients navigate complex workplace scenarios. • Assess workplace concerns, identify relevant facts and regulations, and recommend paths forward. • Track employee relations cases and coordinate timely follow-up. • Resolve offboarding and first-level employee relations queries as a subject-matter expert. • Identify and drive process improvements, automation, product development, and customer and employee experience enhancements. • Determine methods, procedures, and standards for new assignments while adapting complex techniques to broader Lifecycle and Remote needs. • Report to the Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions, within the Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions team.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle. • Tertiary qualifications in HR/labour relations/employment law considered a plus. • 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, develop usable team resources, provide practical solutions, and communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders. • Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills. • Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English; additional languages considered a plus. • Aptitude to innovate and optimize processes, including automation and best-practice implementation. • Efficiency in operations, thorough record-keeping, and data integrity. • Tech-savvy, 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 while balancing competing priorities. • Willingness to work flexible hours as needed. • Proactive and self-motivated with ownership and accountability. • Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency. • Prior employment verification check.

🏖️ 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 • employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) • interview accommodations upon request