Senior HR Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – APAC

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

📋 Description

• Manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits independently across various international jurisdictions.

• Offer guidance on termination, resignation, transfer protocols, employment contracts, redundancy processes, and other HR-related issues.

• Facilitate client and external employee meetings, including consultations on workforce reductions, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, settlements, and termination results.

• Negotiate and influence favorable outcomes in complex terminations involving numerous stakeholders.

• Collaborate with payroll, legal counsel, government entities, trade unions, and other parties to guarantee compliant offboarding and audits.

• Draft, customize, and manage termination and supplementary documents while ensuring the accuracy and confidentiality of employee records.

• Process offboarding utilizing Remote's internal HRIS platform in conjunction with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams.

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

• Offer first-level Employee Relations support and assist clients through intricate workplace scenarios.

• Conduct initial assessments of workplace issues, relevant regulations, and potential solutions.

• Advise internal and external stakeholders on employee relations topics, progressive discipline, documentation, and challenging situations.

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

• Address queries related to offboarding and first-level employee relations matters as a subject-matter expert.

• Identify and drive improvements in processes, automation, product development, and enhancements to customer and employee experiences.

• Establish methods, procedures, and standards for new tasks and adapt complex techniques to achieve desired results.

• Report to the Manager of Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with a generalist HR skill set spanning the employee lifecycle.

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

• Proven track record in independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance.

• Extensive knowledge of employment laws and regulations across different jurisdictions.

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

• Capability to interpret and apply industrial instruments and analyze intricate HR challenges.

• Ability to independently research issues, develop actionable solutions, and convert findings into useful team resources.

• Proficiency in effectively communicating recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders in ambiguous and unfamiliar contexts.

• Exceptional communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills.

• Competence in independently leading challenging conversations towards positive outcomes while maintaining professionalism and confidentiality.

• Advanced business-level proficiency in both written and spoken English.

• Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation, and the implementation of best practices.

• Strong operational efficiency, meticulous record-keeping, and awareness of data integrity.

• Tech-savvy with the ability to collaborate asynchronously using various tools and adapt to changing systems.

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

• Willingness to work flexible hours as required.

• Proactive, self-motivated, accountable, and capable of inspiring others.

• Strong capabilities in automation and AI fluency.

🏝️ 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.

• Life-work balance and the flexibility to plan your schedule around your life.