Senior Employee Relations Advisor

Were looking for a Senior Employee Relations Advisor to join our People Services team in the India office. This role suits someone who is passionate about all things ER but also wants the unique opportunity to have an impact on Wises mission and support our Wisers Leads and wider teams in delivering a seamless employee experience throughout the entire Wiser journey.

This role will report to our APAC Employee Relations Regional Lead based in Singapore.

Your mission :

As one team our vision is to create fast convenient transparent Wiser support powered by smart tech and human advice. To help us get there youll have the exciting opportunity to own Employee Relations (ER) matters across a number of business functions in APAC providing important insights and sound recommendations for policy and process changes and ensuring key stakeholders are continually informed of legislation law and regulation updates.

Youll also provide input on team goals KPIs efficiencies process improvements and future optimization of our People Services team through deliverables in local and global projects.

Heres how youll be contributing to the team :

Being a trusted and accountable specialist supporting end-to-end ER matters within dedicated business functions. Supporting and advising Wisers and Leads through a significant volume and range of situations including complex cases (from internal conflict management to external escalated cases). You will also balance our exposure and appetite to risk in the process.

Partner with  Employee Relations Advisors around the globe in any cross-geographical ER cases navigating complexity and flexibility with DEI legal considerations and best practice.

Collaborate with People Partners to complement their functional business insights with your ER data and expertise.

Analyse and identify data-driven trends to help educate and advise our functions and the Senior Leadership team on business focus areas and better ER practices.

Proactively keep up to date with local employment laws and working practices sharing knowledge and collaborating with the other SMEs to ensure our guidelines policies and processes are compliant and we continue to give customer-centric advice.

Own and contribute to projects both on a local and global level providing advisory input to help us collaboratively shape the future of Wise as we continue to grow.

Update and deliver People-related training sessions in order to upskill our Leads and address knowledge gaps that are highlighted in our ER data.

Provide additional support to the wider People team and other leaders with ad-hoc tasks / data queries and project-based work.

This role will give you the opportunity to :

Contribute strategic thinking towards the bi-annual planning cycles : collate data on stakeholders team performance share ideas for improvements and lead new projects.

Create continuous improvement within the team : partner with your global team to recommend new approaches and changes in policy and procedures co-creating solutions with a global and mass customization outlook.

Maximise advisory impact and partnership : collaborate with the People Partners and senior stakeholders to share advisory data and trends to drive empowered and inclusive stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications : About you :

Strong HR experience : previous and demonstrable experience in a HR Advisor / ER Specialist role within APAC owning and advising on a range of ER matters end-to-end. Including (not an exhaustive list); advising on capability and conduct cases absence cases supporting grievances advise on and support with change management decisions carrying out Exit Interviews and on the rare occasion support with external claims or disputes raised through statutory bodies labor authorities or employment courts across APAC region.

Subject matter expert in employment law and ER advice : Senior Leadership will look up to you for sound advice on a variety of complex cases. You need to have strong knowledge of Indias employment law landscape.

Strong growth mindset : being resilient to and excited about change in a hyper-growth environment with the opportunities it brings and the multiple projects youll be involved with simultaneously. This is a team effort but each Wisers contribution is crucial to Wises ongoing success.

Data driven : you always start with data facts and insights to help inform your approach through storytelling to solving problems and analysing needs.

A heap of empathy and emotional intelligence : youll need to be able to communicate effectively and inclusively both in person and in writing and deal with confidential information in a professional manner.

Adaptable : youll be as comfortable working with ambiguity as you are with certainty as we need someone who can be agile enough to respond to changing priorities but be able to have big-picture proactive thinking for the long-term path ahead.

Collaborative : with tested communication and facilitation skills you guide a vast variety of stakeholders building and fostering relationships over time but also not afraid to challenge through healthy discussions.

Eagle-eyed attention to detail

Ability to deal with confidential information in a professional manner

Courageous and calm in challenging situations

Some extra skills that would be great :

Tech savvy : familiar with Google Suite Slack Workday but also adept to learning new technology as we grow.

Financial services experience : you possess deeper insight to empower our team further with our commercial strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats.

Regional experience : you have employment law experience in other countries in the APAC region.

Additional Information :

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

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Experience : years

Vacancy : 1