HR Generalist
Role Overview
The HR Generalist supports People & Culture, which manages the employee lifecycle and enables consistent, compliant people processes and employee experience.
The role provides internal HR support to the firm’s service lines.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The HR Generalist supports People & Culture, which manages the employee lifecycle and enables consistent, compliant people processes and employee experience.
The role provides internal HR support to the firm’s service lines.
HR operations and employee lifecycle
- Manage onboarding, probation reviews, promotions, transfers, contract amendments, and offboarding.
- Prepare employment documents and maintain employee records in HR systems and personnel files.
- Coordinate visa, labour, and immigration-related HR activities where applicable.
- Support payroll data submissions and monitor probation periods, contract renewals, and employee milestones.
- Respond to employee policy queries and ensure HR processes and records meet internal and regulatory requirements.
Business partnering and employee relations
- Build working relationships with managers and support employee lifecycle decisions, performance management, organizational changes, and people matters.
- Provide first-line employee relations advice and escalate complex issues appropriately.
- Assist with performance reviews, calibration, talent management, workforce planning, resource forecasting, and headcount tracking.
- Contribute to employee engagement, wellbeing, culture, and people strategies.
Projects, reporting, and data
- Identify HR process and employee experience improvements and contribute to transformation, digitalization, and automation initiatives.
- Support dashboards, reports, people analytics, budgeting, promotions, compensation reviews, engagement surveys, and cross-functional people projects.
- Report on headcount, turnover, recruitment, absence, and workforce trends; maintain HR data integrity and analyze people data.
- Support compliance, audit, and governance through accurate documentation and reporting.
Qualifications and requirements
- The description does not state specific education, certification, or years-of-experience requirements.
- The role calls for accurate HR records and data management, reporting and analysis, and appropriate manager guidance and escalation.
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