**Career Area**:Human Resources**:
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**Role Definition**
Supports the business by executing HR customer service and complex administrative duties.
**Responsibilities**:
- Contributes to operational excellence in HR by efficiently and accurately executing processes related to employment compliance, payroll, absence management, time tracking, benefits administration, and employee data management.
- Provides an excellent service experience when executing employee-facing processes.
- Proactively identifies opportunities to improve the employee experience, quality, velocity, and/or cost of HR processes.
- Supports the maintenance of an HR Operations knowledge database and the gathering and reporting of HR operational metrics.
Skills Descriptors: Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
- Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.
- Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.
- Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.
- Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.
- Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.
Information Capture: Knowledge of the methods, channels and processes to obtain needed information; ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner.
- Follows defined procedures to document all routine information.
- Identifies relevant established standards, policies and practices.
- Fulfills routine information capture needs in own area.
- Uses automated tools to capture, organize and archive relevant information.
- Cites examples of different types of relevant information that need to be captured.
Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
- Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent.
- Resolves common customer problems.
- Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action.
- Provides direct service to internal or external customers.
- Documents customer complaints in a timely manner.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
- Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
- Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
- Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
- Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
Employee Relations: Knowledge of the rights and obligations in the employee relations; ability to adhere to legal requirements when handling employee negotiations.
- Assists employees with personal or professional problems.
- Conducts employee satisfaction surveys and documents interviewees' concerns and issues.
- Explains organizational policies, procedures and processes for dealing with employee relations issues.
- Addresses routine problems or disciplinary issues related to employee relations, such as grievances.
- Interprets and communicates employee relations policies and procedures at the local level.
HR: Policies, Standards and Procedures: Knowledge of human resource function; ability to uphold the organization's and industry's standards, procedures and policies regarding human resources management.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance.
- Maintains a specific set of standards and associated HR procedures.
- Communicates and refers potential exceptions upward for review and approval.
- Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
- Provides feedback for the improvement of HR procedures.
Human Resources Consulting: Knowledge of HR approaches, tools and techniques; ability to inform, guide and advise managers in HR-related initiatives.
- Identifies key roles and responsibilities of the HR consulting function.
- Collects information on models for effective consulting of HR related issues.
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