Senior HR Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – APAC

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Senior HR specialist managing compliant APAC employee exits and first-level employee relations for Remote’s global employment platform. Improving offboarding processes, automation, and customer experience across international jurisdictions.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions with minimal supervision
  • Provide guidance on termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts and redundancy processes
  • Lead client and external employee meetings, including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, and termination outcome discussions
  • 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 in Remote’s internal HRIS platform
  • Collaborate with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams
  • Mentor and guide junior team members as an informal escalation point
  • Provide first-level Employee Relations guidance and assess workplace concerns
  • Identify applicable local regulations and potential paths forward for employee relations cases
  • Guide clients on progressive discipline, documentation requirements and difficult workplace situations
  • Track and monitor employee relations cases and coordinate follow-up
  • Resolve offboarding and first-level employee relations queries as a subject-matter expert
  • Drive process improvements, automation, product development and customer and employee experience initiatives
  • Determine methods, procedures and standards for new assignments and adapt complex techniques
  • 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
  • Ability to analyze complex HR issues and independently arrive at solutions
  • Ability to undertake research and translate findings into usable team resources
  • Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills
  • Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English
  • Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation and best practices
  • Efficiency in operations, thorough record-keeping and data integrity
  • Tech-savvy; ability to collaborate asynchronously using various tools and adapt to new systems
  • Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment
  • Willingness to work flexible hours as needed
  • 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 prioritized
  • employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)
  • accommodations available during interviews and beyond