Senior HR Specialist Job Description
Senior HR specialist
provides HR support and structure in the areas of employee relations, legal compliance, policies and procedure development.
Senior HR Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Actively drive diversity strategy, including engagement in regular and assertive outreach efforts aligned with our business strategy and affirmative action goals
Manages employee relations issues such as harassment, discrimination, or conflict in a manner that mitigates company risk and leads to successful resolution
Prepare and execute mass uploads, for Company Closedown during Christmas
Ensure timely, efficient and appropriate recruitment and retention of hourly, agency and salaried staff including job advertisements, candidate sourcing, interviewing, aptitude testing and selection to enable the company to attract and select the best candidates
Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, independent advice and support to Managers/Supervisors and employees as required in disciplinary and grievance issues
Develop and implement HR Policies and Procedures and ensure that these best practice policies and procedures area are adhered to and are compliant with employment legislation
Ensure there is an effective internal communications process by assisting in the organizations communications team
Manage a subset of the adjudication function in a matrixed environment
Manage escalation workflow from adjudication employees in specialized areas
Conduct additional research into and gather additional facts about the circumstances underlying incidents identified in an individual’s background check results and review any additional information provided by the individual
Senior HR Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior HR Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SHRM, PHR, SPHR, CP, SCP, HR, MRPT, US, GPHR, CBP
Education for Senior HR Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior HR specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Human Resources, Business, Education, Business/Administration, Management, Psychology, Human Resources Management, Finance, Economics, Graduate
Skills for Senior HR Specialist
Desired skills for senior HR specialist include:
ADA
Employee relations
Employment law
Diversity
Legal
Organizational effectiveness/development/design
Regulatory and compliance requirements
Specific HR function related to
Leidos HR policies and programs
Workday
Desired experience for senior HR specialist includes:
Support with keeping HR data updated and accurate in line with on the ground changes
Support Mobility team from an administration perspective, with local work permits and liaison with mobility vendors
Support the Compensation & Benefits and Payroll Analysts, with local compensation cycle tasks, ensuring benefits programs are maintained according to plans, development of policy documents, occasionally reaching out to benefits vendors when necessary, with time and attendance management and locally required payroll operations
Responsible for managing large teams of 25+ and performing the associated people management tasks effectively performance management, coaching, development planning, motivating
Active role in pre-sales and bid development
Able to develop strong relationships with the client
Senior HR Specialist Examples
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Senior HR Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior HR specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior HR specialist
- Lead and manage company’s annual internship program
- Collaborate with internal teams including recruiting, alumni, hiring managers and campus teams to deliver a strategy to meet hiring targets
- Take a data driven approach to develop program strategies
- Leads the development and delivery of complex information across all business units globally, including, defining report requirements, performing data analysis and preparing reports for management presentations
- Administers the collection, consolidation and interpretation of data required to support key Human Resources processes, initiatives and improvement projects
- Develops ad hoc reports and completes analysis of complex global information from a variety of sources and writes management summaries
- Leads Human Resources reporting flows and information consolidation which allow predictive analysis for business results
- Conducts external and internal research and summarizes results for management review
- Leads the implementation of improvements to standard Human Resources reports
- Participates on global initiatives to improve the overall effectiveness of reporting and analysis of the Human Resources Function
Qualifications for senior HR specialist
- Hands-on experience in searching candidates
- Demonstrated influencing and relationship building skills with clients, partners, and people from various backgrounds and cultures
- Provides Oracle Business Intelligence expertise to the global implementation of HR Integrated Analytics and to the HRIS Operations Team
- Leads production support efforts by working with the HR organization and end-users to troubleshoot issues and discuss enhancement requests for existing reports and dashboards
- Supports business requirement gathering sessions for reporting and embedded analytics across all HR systems
- Translates business requirements into value added dashboards and reports that meet the needs of key stakeholders and senior leaders
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior HR specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior HR specialist
- Plan, manage and execute complex HR application configuration changes (e.g., workflow, rules, ) and maintain documentation for business process maps, workbooks, and procedures as needed to address business needs
- Support Centers of Excellence (CoEs), Human Resource Business Partners (HRBPs), and Crew Central shared services with all new technology / application implementations
- Ensure data integrity by supporting risk and audit activities, including ensuring data integrity and privacy compliance
- Processing of data in the HR systems/databases according to the procedures and the HRPS control framework
- Receiving and answering questions to line managers and employees relating to individual or group benefits and terms and conditions
- Prepare and maintain employees staff tables for the correct salary calculation for the Clients
- Follow amendments in the Russian legislation in relation to HR field
- Work with Business/HR Leaders to plan, lead and execute aspects of communication (announcement day, job offers, Town Halls, ), change management (identify and meet with influential change agents, ), culture and onboarding for transitioning target employees
- Integrate CTO with other regional HR activities such as employer branding, recruitment, orientation, and provide support to country deployment
- Depending on project scope, lead or participate in due diligence, transition and integration activities from HR perspective in M&A/divestiture projects
Qualifications for senior HR specialist
- Understanding of ELCM aspects such as Leaves, Separation, Salary components, Induction, Onboarding a strong plus
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in HR or economy preferred
- Able to absorb and apply knowledge to give correct advice on standard policies and procedures
- Language proficiency in English, Czech, Romanian, French, German
- Sound Knowledge of end to end HR processes to ease routing
- Higher degree in HR field
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior HR specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior HR specialist
- Provide support for HR M&A/divestiture, including but not limited to, research, consultation with stakeholders, maintain and enhance knowledge database and tools
- Plan and manage medium to large size internal and external events and campaigns to promote annual enrollment, healthy lifestyle initiatives, health screenings
- Support major change initiatives around HR Total Rewards through effective communications techniques
- May contribute as HR Specialist or on projects or practice networks as necessary
- Maintain awareness of legislative trends and requirements and support changes
- Ensure compliance with local labor law/statutory requirements
- Handles various inquiries regarding HR programs, including acting as a liaison between Employees or Agents and vendors or outside companies to resolve problems
- Screens paperwork for accuracy and completeness
- Responds to inquiries regarding HR programs
- Coordinates logistics for visitors , applicants, Agents, such as invitations, hotel accommodations, travel arrangements and agendas
Qualifications for senior HR specialist
- Holder of Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related discipline with at least 5 years of hands-on HR experience
- Knowledge of labour legislation, HR policies and C&B topics
- Curious about new points of view, innovative ideas and different ways of handling situations
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build working relationships and trust at various levels in the organizations
- Good understanding of his/her personal strengths and weaknesses with an open mind for for feedback, driven by continuously growing, learning and improving himself/herself or others
- Excellent verbal and written English with an additional Asian language (Japanese / Korean / Mandarin is advantageous)
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior HR specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior HR specialist
- Tracks and follows internal controls for reconciling invoices, accounts, taxes and/or applicable ledgers
- Follows and monitors regulatory compliance and requirements for SOX, taxes, privacy, FMLA, HIPAA or for the Department of Insurance for Continuing Education
- Orders department supplies, reconciles monthly purchasing card statements and prepares transaction logs
- Prepares and distributes information packets and/or individualized mailings regarding HR programs
- Performs various administrative and clerical duties, including opening, sorting and distributing incoming mail, and filing and assisting with the implementation of new or revised HR programs or procedures
- Assists supervisor with special assignments as directed
- Guide and support other team members in meeting these SLAs
- Ensure timely and accurate payroll delivery by performing both standard payroll processing and also more complex, periodic and/or responsible payroll tasks within the team perform key controls
- Provide regular and ad-hoc reports related to Payroll processes
- Carry out additional administration assigned to the payroll team related to Benefits, off-cycle processing, time and attendance, other country specific tasks, issue Manual paychecks
Qualifications for senior HR specialist
- COPC and any other Statistical Certifications from ISI, ASQ a plus will be an added advantage
- Must have three (3) plus years of corporate recruiting or a mix of staffing agency recruiting, to include full life-cycle recruiting
- Knowledge of ALL principles and processes involved in HR functions at a large-scale overseas facility
- Act as champion of change in the organization, sponsoring change initiatives in support of organizational evolution
- MBA in HR or discipline related to HR
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in business related field coupled with 2+ years related benefits, HR, or other relevant work experience
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior HR specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior HR specialist
- Ensuring daily operational activities are managed effectively and are running smooth such as
- Be the first contact person for our APAC employees regarding all HR topics providing high-quality, timely, and professional customer service
- Prepare payroll and checks with Finance for small APAC countries
- Contributing in Global/regional HR projects
- Help develop employee engagement strategies for the SFO office
- Lead new hire onboarding including orientation
- Gain understanding of developments in the Compensation areas
- Support the US Commercial HR Business Partner by mastering the corporate HR processes (incl
- Coordinates and in some instances leads various HR projects across the US Commercial Operations group
- Keeps abreast of the global HR policies and initiatives
Qualifications for senior HR specialist
- Provides daily maintenance of associate information
- Administer the general record keeping and filing needs of the Staffing function
- Handle employment background check and fingerprinting services
- Coordinate and manage the array of related administrative functions related to assigned requisitions including interview scheduling and logistics
- Serve as point of contact for new hires’ onboarding
- Assists with major human resource projects (e.g., benefits open enrollment, HR sponsored activities