Graduate HR Generalist - Americas
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Job description
Graduate HR Generalist role providing HR support to Canonical's AMER region, covering onboarding, HRIS maintenance, benefits and payroll support, and global people projects. Based remotely in the AMER region.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · AMER region
- Languages
- Spanish, Portuguese
What you'll do
- Provide HR support by answering team members' questions and responding to requests regarding their employment and contracts, escalating when necessary, including new starter process and onboarding, global benefits, employment verifications, and other general inquiries
- Maintain the HRIS, ensuring a high degree of accuracy and timeliness in processing all team member changes and new joiners
- Own global projects (e.g. engagement, training or culture initiatives)
- Partner with managers and employees, supporting HR processes and driving the people strategy for areas of responsibility
- Work as a truly global partner to colleagues, especially leads, managers and executives
- Process new hires, including country-specific on-boarding documentation, creation of files, systems set-up, and coordination of introductory reviews
- Provide support to employees for the enrollment and processing of benefits and the payroll process, ensuring monthly data is provided on time and is accurate
- Liaise with payroll to guarantee smooth salary payments
- Create purchase orders for internal departments
- Provide administrative support to employees for the enrollment and processing of benefits
- Conduct regular audits of employment files and systems to ensure they are up-to-date, accurate, and GDPR compliant
- Continually work to better processes, spotting areas to improve and drive the function forward
What we're looking for
- Track record of exceptional achievement from high school and graduate studies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to prioritize complex workloads, manage time effectively and work well under pressure
- Self-motivated and results-orientated with a clear focus on accuracy
- High level of honesty, integrity, and ability to handle confidential data
- Flexible attitude and easily adaptable to change
- Willing to take the initiative and provide suggestions and ideas to contribute to the success of the role/team
- Ambitious to grow your career within HR
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Nice to have
- Internship experience working in an HR/People team, preferably in the Technology industry
- Fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese
Your team
HR/People team
HR function that thinks and acts globally, supporting the AMER region
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- 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
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
Changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
What they value
- Excellence
- Open source
- Global distributed collaboration
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background