People Experience Advisor

Summary

Join Xero and become a valued HR advisor, providing expert guidance to employees and leaders globally. You will play a crucial role in navigating employee relations, ensuring compliance, and supporting strategic initiatives. This diverse role encompasses advising on various HR matters, contributing to BAU tasks, fostering continuous improvement, and identifying opportunities for upskilling. You will support Xero's global mobility and flexible work offerings, facilitate cyclical processes, and deliver training sessions. Success involves being a trusted advisor, upholding Xero's reputation, and ensuring compliance while building strong working relationships and supporting Xero employees.

Requirements

• Business insight - Asks questions to understand the organisation’s key business drivers, showing business insight and knowing more than just the fundamentals
• Collaborates - Contributes to group discussions, asking questions to gain input and insight from others. Considers new ways to add value within their role
• Plans and aligns - Prioritises efficiently and coordinates effectively.Knows the right things to focus on, completes high volumes of work to a high standard, identifying ways to improve efficiency or outcomes for themselves and the team
• Ensures accountability - Holds themself accountable for delivering work with a high level of accuracy; consistently honouring policies, procedures and other work requirements. Seeks feedback to find ways to continuously grow
• Strategic mindset - Is aware of how their own work connects to the Xero's strategy and understands what actions to take to help Xero reach its goals.Identifies trends and seeks to understand how future events may impact their own work
• Communicates effectively - Proactively shares the right information; providing the appropriate amount of context and detail when communicating, considering the audience that they are working with
• Manages complexity - Proactively gathers the relevant information or data to provide a clear understanding of problems. Explores different ways to solve problems and applies these problem solving methodologies when necessary
• Instills trust - Builds trust by demonstrating consistency between what is said and what is done. Is consistently open, honest, and direct in dealing with others, establishing relationships built on trust
• Proven HR experience in a fast-paced environment
• Strong stakeholder management experience, underpinned by strong and effective communication
• Practical knowledge and experience in facilitating effective people processes and employee relations cases in line with current best practice
• Good understanding and application of employment legislation and associated risk mitigation

Responsibilities

• Provide meaningful and accurate advice and guidance across the full spectrum of PX; including legislative requirements, onboarding, performance management, global mobility, employee engagement and employment relations
• In conjunction with the relevant PX Business Partner, you will contribute and support on an array of BAU topics such as change management, investigations, organisational design, and providing reporting, analysis and insights
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and seek new ways to better serve our Xeros by transforming our ways or working
• Identify and surface trends and opportunities to upskill and build on our People Leadership capabilities
• Support Xero’s with understanding our Global Mobility and Flexible Work offerings, working with the relevant teams to facilitate eligible requests
• Supporting PX Business Partners and People Leaders through cyclical processes such as Salary Review, Talent Mapping, and Engagement deep-dives
• Deliver dedicated People Leader onboarding and ad-hoc training sessions on all people related matters
• Proactively seek out opportunities to contribute to key people programs and initiatives
• Build a positive employee experience that leads to improved business performance and increased levels of customer engagement
• Identify opportunities for automation and self-service as we embark on a journey to empower our Xeros to take more ownership of the employee experience
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement and seeking new ways to better serve our Xeros

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• An Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Private medical insurance
• Gym passes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working