HR Generalist

The role

The HR Generalist will support the growing team by providing HR guidance to team members and managers. This role involves managing benefit programs, supporting the full HR life-cycle, and maintaining corporate policies.

What you will do

• Provide HR guidance to team members and managers
• Partner with line managers to provide employee relations advice on global policies and procedures
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness in processing employee changes, joiners and leavers
• Manage and drive benefit programs spanning either EMEA or AMER locations
• Liaise with finance team on monthly payroll, projects and enquiries
• Support the full life-cycle of HR including onboarding, benefit administration, and departure
• Apply critical thinking to automate and reduce administrative tasks
• Take a lead role in the management, continued development, and integration of our HR system
• Act as a system expert and advocate for the global HR team
• Produce data driven reports to inform and influence HR initiatives

Required qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Relevant professional qualification and certifications
• Excellent practical insights into either EMEA or AMER HR practices and employment laws
• Self-directed, organised problem solver with the ability to prioritise and meet goals and deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion, sound judgement, tact and diplomacy in all communications
• Fearless and principled approach to professional interactions at every level of the business with commitment to confidentiality of sensitive information
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events, with at least one trip of two full working weeks

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries.