HR Generalist
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About the Role
BSI is seeking an experienced HR Generalist to provide end-to-end HR support across one or multiple countries. The role involves managing the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, payroll coordination, employee relations, benefits administration, and HR operations.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Act as a key HR contact for employees and managers across assigned countries
- Manage end to end HR operations including onboarding, contractual changes, benefits administration, leave management, payroll coordination, and offboarding
- Maintain accurate employee records and country specific HR documentation within HR systems
- Provide first line guidance on HR policies, procedures, and employee lifecycle matters
- Support managers with routine people processes and best practice guidance
- Coordinate payroll inputs and support monthly payroll activities
- Support employee relations activity, triaging and escalating more complex matters
- Maintain awareness of local employment legislation and support compliance
- Support implementation of regional and global HR initiatives
- Build strong relationships across the People team and wider business
- Support HR projects and contribute to continuous improvement of HR processes
- Provide guidance and day to day support to local HR Administrators
Requirements
- 5+ years of HR experience within a generalist or operational HR role
- Strong understanding of employment law, HR policies, and people processes
- Experience working within a global or matrixed organisation
- Experience using HR/HCM systems
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- High levels of professionalism, integrity, and discretion
- Strong problem solving capability
- Business English and local language proficiency relevant to assigned countries
- HR related qualification or certification (desirable)
- Experience supporting multiple countries or regions (desirable)
- Experience supporting employee relations activity or working closely with ER teams (desirable)
Full Job Posting
About The Role
- We are looking for an experienced and people focused HR Generalist to join BSI’s People team.
- In this role, you will provide end to end HR support across one or multiple countries, acting as a key contact for employees and managers across a broad range of HR matters.
- You will support the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, payroll coordination, employee relations support, benefits administration, and HR operations.
- Working within a global matrix organisation, you will play an important role in ensuring employees receive a consistent, high quality experience while balancing local employment requirements with global processes and policies.
- This role also provides day to day guidance and support to local HR Administrators, helping ensure effective delivery of HR services across the region.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a key HR contact for employees and managers across assigned countries.
- Manage end to end HR operations including onboarding, contractual changes, benefits administration, leave management, payroll coordination, and offboarding.
- Maintain accurate employee records and country specific HR documentation within HR systems.
- Provide first line guidance on HR policies, procedures, and employee lifecycle matters.
- Support managers with routine people processes and best practice guidance.
- Coordinate payroll inputs and support monthly payroll activities.
- Support employee relations activity, triaging and escalating more complex matters where appropriate.
- Maintain awareness of local employment legislation and support compliance with local labour laws and internal policies.
- Support implementation of regional and global HR initiatives, including leadership development, systems changes, and performance processes.
- Build strong relationships across the People team and wider business to ensure a seamless employee experience.
- Support HR projects and contribute to continuous improvement of HR processes and ways of working.
- Provide guidance and day to day support to local HR Administrators where applicable.
Essential
- 5+ years of HR experience within a generalist or operational HR role.
- Strong understanding of employment law, HR policies, and people processes.
- Experience working within a global or matrixed organisation.
- Experience using HR/HCM systems.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- High levels of professionalism, integrity, and discretion when handling sensitive information.
- Strong problem solving capability with the ability to apply sound judgement.
- Business English and local language proficiency relevant to assigned countries.
Highly desirable
- HR related qualification or certification.
- Experience supporting multiple countries or regions.
- Experience supporting employee relations activity or working closely with ER teams.
- Experience contributing to HR transformation or process improvement initiatives.
Salary & Benefits
- BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development.
- The salary range for this role is between 181,500 242,000 AED.
About BSI
- BSI is a business improvement and standards company, headquartered in London, with over 100 years of experience.
- We partner with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engage with a 15,000 strong global community of experts.
- BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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