Senior Employee Relations Specialist, Transitions – APAC

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Senior Employee Relations Specialist managing compliant employee exits and first-level employee relations for Remote’s global employment platform. Advising clients across international jurisdictions and improving lifecycle processes through automation and AI.

Responsibilities:

  • Independently manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions
  • Provide guidance on termination, resignation, transfer, employment contract, and redundancy procedures
  • Lead client and external employee meetings, including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, settlements, and termination outcomes
  • 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 compliance 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
  • Serve as an informal escalation point and mentor junior team members
  • Provide guidance on Employee Relations resources and complex workplace scenarios
  • Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns and identify applicable regulations and potential paths forward
  • Track and monitor employee relations cases and coordinate timely follow-up
  • Resolve offboarding and first-level employee relations queries as a subject-matter expert
  • Identify and drive process improvements, automation, product development, and customer and employee experience improvements
  • Determine methods, procedures, and standards for new assignments and adapt complex techniques to achieve results
  • 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
  • Experience providing comprehensive HR advice and guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions
  • Understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals
  • Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments and analyze complex HR issues
  • Ability to independently research, develop usable team resources, provide practical solutions, and communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders
  • Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills
  • Ability to independently lead difficult conversations toward positive outcomes
  • Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English
  • Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation, and championing best practices
  • Efficiency in operations, thorough record-keeping, and data integrity
  • Tech-savvy and able to collaborate asynchronously using 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 (optional)

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 and flexibility to plan your schedule around your life