Senior HR Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – APAC

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of managing and resolving intricate employee exits across various international jurisdictions independently.

• Provide guidance to clients regarding termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes.

• Facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, which include workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, settlements, and termination outcomes.

• Negotiate and influence favorable results in complex termination situations.

• Collaborate with payroll, legal counsel, government agencies, trade unions, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Create, customize, and manage termination and supplementary documents while ensuring accurate and confidential record-keeping.

• Oversee offboarding processes in Remote’s internal HRIS and coordinate with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams.

• Offer informal escalation support, mentoring, and guidance to junior team members.

• Provide first-level Employee Relations advice and conduct initial assessments of workplace issues.

• Assist clients with progressive discipline, documentation requirements, and challenging workplace situations.

• Monitor and track employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow-up actions.

• Address inquiries related to offboarding and first-level employee relations matters.

• Propel process enhancements, automation, product development, and initiatives aimed at improving customer and employee experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, demonstrating generalist HR competencies and exposure to the employee lifecycle.

• Proven ability to manage voluntary and involuntary employee exits independently, with a focus on care, sensitivity, and legal compliance.

• In-depth understanding of employment laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions.

• Familiarity with employee relations principles, progressive discipline techniques, and fundamentals of workplace investigations.

• Competence in interpreting and applying industrial instruments.

• Skill in analyzing complex HR problems, researching solutions, and translating findings into practical resources for the team.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation capabilities.

• Capacity to independently conduct difficult conversations while upholding professionalism and strict confidentiality.

• Proficiency in business-level (advanced) written and spoken English.

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

• Awareness of operational efficiency, record-keeping, and data integrity.

• Tech-savvy with the ability to collaborate asynchronously using evolving systems.

• Capability to work autonomously and cohesively in a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote international environment.

• Flexibility to work varying hours as needed.

• Proactive, self-driven, accountable, and able to motivate others.

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

🏝️ 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 (including gym memberships).

• Mental health support services.

• Stock options.

• Home office budget & IT equipment.