People Services Senior Specialist

Job Description

Love helping people build better relationships and passionate about delivering great service? Believe that there’s a better way to scale and grow a business? We have just the role for you. Zendesk is looking for People Services Senior Specialist . You are genuine, listen to your customers and you strive to make things beautifully simple. You consistently strive to make the people around you better, while making processes simpler and more effective.

In this role, you will balance the transactional workflow for Zendesk’s People Services organization, support the team, and help us stay within compliance. Meanwhile, you will continually look at ways to improve how things are done!

Main Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all HR data entry, maintenance & upkeep of records on Workday.

• Partner closely with T&OD COE. Background in L&D, facilitating New Hire Onboarding sessions independently both in-person and via Zoom will help set up this resource on the path of success quickly

• Carry out day-to-day HR processing tasks for our Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Offboarding, Payroll and Benefits Teams.

• Ensure compliance with data entry (e.g. probation periods, contractual requirements).

• Responsible for responding to employee questions through our ticketing system.

• Responsible for responding to employee questions via Slack.

• Provide on-ground support for administrative tasks, scheduling, new hire/onboarding tasks in office

• Role requires ability to communicate and manage stakeholders expectation across levels independently

• Support projects and ability to identify project opportunities in location

• Participate in ad-hoc HR projects (ICONIC, BetterUp etc.)

• Make sure we are applying company policies and procedures appropriately.

• Keep making our team and processes better.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Fantastic communication skills and work well with others and conversational level in English as you will be reporting into a manager based in Singapore;

• A great teammate who helps make everyone successful.

• Comfortable presenting to large groups.

• You have experience with, and enjoy using and learning, HRIS systems.

• Proficient with local statutory regulations and implementations.

• Know your way around Google Docs & Workday.

• You are an expert in the details; You set priorities well and always follow through.

Requirements:

• BS/BA degree preferred with demonstrated at least 3 years’ general HR experience.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; comfortable with giving and receiving open, constructive feedback in a way that fosters trust and respect.

• Detail-oriented and excellent organizational skills; accuracy is essential.

• Inventive, proactive and able to independently manage shifting workloads in a high-paced and ever-changing environment. You know how to prioritize and deliver on opportunities.

• Outstanding judgment and ability to balance the needs of the company, managers, and employees.

• Strong attitude for continuous improvement and exceeding client expectations.

• This position will primarily work to support teams within the Asia Pacific regions, and occasionally with EMEA and Americas regions.

• Willingness to work on a hybrid set up.

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Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

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Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love. We advocate for digital first customer experiences—and we stick with it in our workplace. Over 5,000 employees worldwide are collaborating from kitchen tables, home offices, coworking spaces, and Zendesk workspaces to make one team.

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