HR Executive (Full-Time/100% Remote Working)

What you will be doing

Primary function: The HR Executive’s primary function is to facilitate the processes for the HR team.

Support: The HR Executive is supported by freelancers and external suppliers. The HR Executive, just as all other members of the HR team, does hands-on work within HR tasks and projects. The HR Executive is responsible for the group KPIs of the HR team and for the HR-relevant KPIs of the entire team.

Reporting: The HR Executive reports to the Operations Manager.

Other functions: The HR team in our firm also supports other teams, such as IT, Finance, Procurement, Data Protection, Marketing, and facilities, in administrative roles.

Core Responsibilities

• Coordinate and track full employee onboarding and offboarding processes including contract offer, preparation, and compliance briefings.
• Manage the entire recruitment function including writing job descriptions, screening, shortlisting, scheduling of interviews and profiling of candidates.
• Support the Marketing team in job portal posting.
• Conduct HR processes in line with company policies and ensure compliance with employment legislation and provide suggestions for improving company procedures.
• Administer training and work-related matters including coordination or enrolment of internal and external courses, update and maintain training records.
• Gather employees’ feedback and administer employee surveys.
• Provide reports to the leadership regarding the KPIs of hiring and other HR-related matters such as costs and processes.
• Maintain employee records and be the subject matter expert for employee personal data and compliance. Administer Performance Evaluation Exercises.
• Undertake and/or support any ad-hoc projects assigned. Examples include corporate retreats and lunch/dinners.
• Provide support to Accounting Team for accounts administration.

Here is an extract of concrete tasks for you to familiarise yourself with your role and responsibility:

Operative functions/Support Functions (about 80% of the effort)

• Running the personnel electronic files system, and maintaining all personnel files there
• Sending monthly payroll updates to payroll providers
• Supporting operations and finance team for providing payroll cashflow
• Regular check our firm’s appearance on our website and internal and external job portals
• Provide firm’s headcount approval process that triggers a new job opening to be created
• Checking of invoices from associates and suppliers (yes, this is a genuine procurement, finance, and operations task but you support these in doing so)
• Find freelancers for individual services (you get support in doing so by the operations team and by the procurement team)
• Providing regular employee performance and career development reviews, and preparing an interview protocol.
• Steering and documenting individual onboarding and offboarding of employees
• Steering and documenting individual professional training activities of employees (“Meet and Learn”/WEBINATO, company-wide training events (like Agile workshops), and supporting employees in planning their professional training (seminars, courses, e-learning)
• Chasing our legal advisors to prepare contracts and agreements for employees and freelancers for both legal entities in Singapore and Germany
• Submitting status assessments for freelancers with government authorities, checking/approving CPF/income tax for our employees
• Submitting government grant claims for salary (childcare, army, maternity, etc)
• Managing leaves, archiving and broadcasting leave notices
• Managing bonus schedules for employees

Management functions (about 15% of the effort)

• Supervising HR Suppliers’ communication when it is about submitting HR documentation to official bodies (CPF, German Pension Fund, etc.)
• Working with our service providers to keep the Human Resources Management System (HRM) and the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) up and running
• Identify areas for improvement of our firm’s HR processes, as far as these rely on outside workforce
• Provide support to the following functions of other teams, such as the procurement team, the marketing team, and the operations team:
  • Data protection audits with associates, suppliers, freelancers, and the entire team
  • Work-load balancing of suppliers, freelancers, and employees
  • Taking care and managing our virtual team of office experts
  • Checking reciprocity with certain suppliers
  • Ensuring that proper order letters are sent out to suppliers
  • Ongoing verification of prices and delivery times
  • Establishing and monitoring of supplier and freelancer KPIs
  • Event management
  • Management of the firm’s software licenses
  • Contract management for freelancers
• Improving the new hire experience/onboarding experience for new joiners
• Promoting company culture (e.g. HR handbook, culture book, company brochure, welcome note for employees, birthday greetings, organizing quarterly townhalls including icebreaker/teambuilding/hello and goodbye, CEO sharing, and other agenda items, organizing company events)
• Project management for all sorts of internal projects

KPI functions (about 5% of the effort)

• Checking of amounts billed by freelancers, are there noticeable movements up or down?
• Measuring the company mood on a regular basis, by doing and evaluating an employees engagement survey
• Providing weekly and monthly HR KPI submission