Senior HR Specialist, Employee Relations – 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 • Provide guidance on termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts and redundancy processes • Lead and facilitate workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, and termination outcome meetings • Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations • Coordinate internal and external stakeholders including payroll, legal counsel, government bodies and trade unions • Draft, tailor and administer termination and supplementary documents • Maintain employee records in accordance with privacy and confidentiality regulations • Process offboarding through Remote’s internal HRIS platform • Collaborate with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance and other teams • Act as first point of informal escalation and mentor junior team members • Provide guidance on Employee Relations resources and complex workplace scenarios • Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns • Serve as a resource on employee relations matters • Guide clients on progressive discipline, documentation and difficult situations • Track and monitor employee relations cases and coordinate follow-up • Resolve offboarding and first-level employee relations queries • Identify and drive process improvements, automation, product development and customer and employee experience initiatives • Determine methods, procedures and standards for new assignments and adapt complex techniques to meet broader Lifecycle and Remote needs • 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 • Comprehensive HR advice and guidance on employment laws and regulations spanning various jurisdictions • Understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals • Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments • Ability to analyze complex HR issues and independently arrive at solutions • Ability to undertake research and translate findings into usable team resources • Practical problem-solving skills and ability to communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders • Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills • Ability to independently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome • Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English • Aptitude to innovate and optimize processes, including automation • Efficiency in operations, thorough record-keeping and data integrity • 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 and self-motivated with 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 prioritized • employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) • accommodation support during interviews and beyond