Senior Employee Relations Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Hong Kong.

📋 Description

• Oversee and address intricate employee exits independently across various international jurisdictions.

• Provide counsel to clients regarding termination, resignation, transfer protocols, employment agreements, and redundancy procedures.

• Facilitate consultations on workforce reductions, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, settlements, and meetings regarding termination outcomes.

• Negotiate and influence favorable results in complex terminations that involve multiple stakeholders.

• Collaborate with payroll, legal advisors, governmental agencies, trade unions, and other parties to ensure compliance and audits are met.

• Create, customize, and manage termination and supplementary documentation while safeguarding confidential employee information.

• Execute offboarding processes via Remote’s internal HRIS platform, working alongside Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams.

• Act as an informal escalation resource, providing mentorship and support to junior team members.

• Offer first-level Employee Relations advice and assist clients in navigating complex workplace challenges.

• Evaluate workplace issues, pinpoint pertinent facts and regulations, and suggest suitable courses of action.

• Advise clients on progressive discipline, documentation needs, and challenging workplace scenarios.

• Monitor employee relations cases and ensure timely follow-ups are conducted.

• Address offboarding and initial employee relations inquiries as a subject-matter expert.

• Propel process enhancements, automation initiatives, product development, and improvements in customer and employee experiences.

• Establish methods, procedures, and standards for new assignments while adapting complex techniques to align with Lifecycle and Remote requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with a broad range of HR competencies throughout the employee lifecycle.

• Proven ability to independently handle voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with empathy, sensitivity, and adherence to legal standards.

• Experience in delivering comprehensive HR advice and insights on employment laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions.

• Knowledge of employee relations principles, progressive discipline strategies, and fundamentals of workplace investigations.

• Capacity to interpret and implement industrial instruments and analyze intricate HR challenges.

• Proficient in independently researching issues, converting findings into practical team resources, and offering actionable solutions.

• Exceptional communication, influencing, conflict resolution, and negotiation abilities.

• Advanced business-level proficiency in written and spoken English; knowledge of additional languages is a benefit.

• Strong inclination towards process innovation, optimization, automation, and promoting best practices.

• Competence in operational efficiency, meticulous record-keeping, and maintaining data integrity.

• Technologically adept and capable of collaborating asynchronously using various tools while adapting to changing systems.

• Ability to function autonomously and cohesively in a fast-paced, international, remote environment.

• Openness to flexible working hours as necessary.

• Self-motivated and proactive, demonstrating ownership and accountability.

• Strong capabilities in automation and AI, with fluency in AI technologies.

• Tertiary qualifications in HR, labour relations, or employment law are considered advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere

• Flexible paid time off

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously)

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave

• Budget for co-working spaces, learning, and wellness initiatives (including gym memberships)

• Mental health support services

• Stock options

• Home office budget and IT equipment

• Life-work balance

• Employee Resource Groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)

• Interview accommodations available upon request