Senior People Advisor

Job Title

Job Description

About Us

We are a global reinsurance company with a dynamic and innovative approach to reinsurance in some of the world's most complex and fast-moving markets. Specialising in risks associated with Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection and Longevity products, our team is always learning, researching and rethinking the best solutions to the challenges our clients face. Our local knowledge and expertise is leveraged by our global reach and unrivalled capability as we continue our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

We have a relaxed but hard-working culture and providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is important to us.  We have a wide range of benefits and regular social activities, including quarterly socials and wellness initiatives. 

The Role

We are looking for an experienced generalist Senior People Advisor to join the global People Advisory team in Singapore. This role will work areas of the employee lifecycle; everything from recruitment, probation and performance management to learning & development and employee relations cases for a number of different Lines of Business (LOB). The position will be primarily working with the employees in Singapore, although this may change over time to cover other locations in APAC, such as Australia.

The ideal candidate will be organised, solutions-focused, pro-active and able to easily build relationships with stakeholders at all levels. You need to be calm under pressure and thrive in a fast-paced and challenging environment. You will need to be able to hit the ground running and operate both independently, but also as a team.

The role holder will play a key role in delivering a professional, credible People function that supports the management team in achieving organisational excellence in all aspects of people management.

Duties

• Provide advice to all employees on policies and procedures, and training need solutions.
• Coach and train line managers, upskilling and empowering them to effectively manage their people, including advising them on performance and absence management.
• Identify and drive forward People initiatives and ensure their successful implementation, examples of this could be Induction redesign, employee engagement and wellbeing agenda or exploring People metrics.
• Lead on all employee relations matters, including absence management, performance issues, disciplinaries, grievances and all other aspects of people management from start to finish aiming to resolve cases successfully whilst minimising risk to the business.
• Review the monthly payroll pack provided by the People Operations team, ensuring all changes and documentation are accurately recorded, and monthly payroll cut-off deadlines are met.
• Take responsibility for the annual performance review process, including collating the relevant information for all employees in the relevant business unit, providing information to managers and collecting it in a timely manner, advising managers throughout the process and liaising with the relevant People Lead to ensure a smooth process that meets all deadlines. Work closely with the People Lead to support on the annual compensation process.
• Lead on delivering the Learning and Development plan, including conducting an annual learning need analysis, designing the content with trainers, scheduling training courses and coordinating the gathering of feedback. Including collaborating with the People Advisors & Managers on London led training.
• Support the People Lead with MI reporting and other ad hoc tasks as required.
• Lead on employee relocations and support candidates with visa applications. Other tasks include; ensuring flights and accommodation are organised, liaising with our relocation company, ensuring shipping is arranged, carrying out any right to work related activity etc.
• Support the People Operations Team across the business, ensuring processes are accurately followed and systems are updated. Work closely with the People Advisors & Managers globally to drive key initiatives and projects to completion. 
• Complete ad hoc tasks/projects as requested.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Experience working at an Advisor level within a fast-paced environment
• Experience of documenting business processes (ideally People/HR related)
• University degree or equivalent experience
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Good Microsoft Office experience (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Comprehensive up-to-date knowledge of employment law
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and collaborative skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience managing multiple priorities and confidently managing People projects.
• Ability to influence a range of personalities and manage expectations
• Experience with database management (HRIS system)
• An all-rounder generalist HR Professional

Desirable

• Working towards or achieved an HR qualification
• Experience managing and leading People projects
• Good understanding of immigration law

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits

Leave

• 23 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days

• Adoption and fertility leave 

• Generous enhanced parental leave  

Healthcare

• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents

• Group Term Life Insurance coverage of 5x basic annual salary, Group Accelerated CI of 1x annual basic salary and Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment of 3x annual basic salary 

• Optical & Dental benefits 

• Additional flexi benefits

Wellness

• Access to Employee Assistance Program 

• Time off for volunteering 

• Charitable matching of employee donations

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

Pacific Life Re Values

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