HR Generalist

Are you a detail-oriented HR professional with a passion for operational excellence and employee experience? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your contributions can truly make a difference? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

We're seeking an experienced
HR Generalist
based in Bucharest, Romania to join our dynamic Global People Team. In this pivotal role, you'll provide comprehensive end to end HR operational support across multiple European countries, ensuring a seamless experience for employees and managers alike. With over 3,000 employees worldwide and growing, you'll play a key role in enabling our success through outstanding HR service delivery. This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to evolve and strengthen our HR operations in support of a truly global business.

Here's a breakdown of what you'll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):

• Provide end-to-end HR Operational support to employees and managers, ensuring compliance with local labour laws and collective bargaining agreements (CBA).
• As the ideal HR Generalist, you will possess a track record of successfully and delivering employee life cycle activities across multiple European countries ensuring compliance with local labour regulations.
• As a key member of the HR Operations team, you will be a key point of contact for employees and line managers in assigned European countries, supporting them throughout the entire employee lifecycle.
• Onboarding new starters, managing all employee-related changes (such as annual pay reviews, role modifications and transfers), providing advice and administering family leave policies, and overseeing the termination process.

HR Operations Delivery And Compliance

• Be the first point of contact for employees' queries across the assigned European countries regarding policies, procedures and benefits responding or escalating them as when required and keeping the employee informed.
• Support the end-to-end employee life cycle management processes such as: onboarding and new hires local HR orientation, supporting the monthly payroll administration, working closely with Finance and payroll vendors to ensure the accurate and timely processing of essential employee data such as new hires, terminations, and employee changes.
• Benefit administration including relevant documentation and employee file management in accordance with local legislation.
• Processing termination cases, both voluntary and involuntary, creating leaver documentation, updating the HRI system all in compliance with HR policies and local employment regulations.
• Leave management and preparation of reports for external agencies and authorities.
• Producing standard and non-standard offer letters / employment contracts and employment change letters compliant with relevant local employment procedures and regulations.
• Supporting the annual promotion and pay review processes.
• Ensure HR Operations processes and procedures are up to date and compliant with all relevant local employment procedures and regulations.

Workday System Management

• Utilize Workday as the HRIS for employee data management, payroll reporting and generate reports. Continuously ensure data accuracy and integrity by conducting your own regular audits.

Team Collaboration And Process Improvement

• Work closely with the broader global HR Operations team, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Reward, and DEI teams to deliver a cohesive employee experience.
• Involvement in ad hoc HR Operations projects.
• Review existing processes/procedures and suggest improvement for operational efficiency.
• Provide support to the HR Operations team during period of absence.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and HR process optimization.

These are the essentials you'll need to get an interview:

• Demonstrable experience using Workday as an HRIS.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience as HR Generalist with solid experience in Romanian labour law.
• Strong knowledge of your local and other European countries labour law.
• Ability to multitask, prioritise and perform well under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Agile and adaptable, able to work accurately and independently in a fast-paced global environment.
• Be customer-focused and understand what a positive customer experience looks like.
• Must be hands on with great stakeholder management skills.

It would be great if you had these to, but we'll support you if you don't:

• Degree in HR or similar qualification .
• CBA or Union environment experience: Awareness of the reports requirements will be ideal.
• Proficiency in other European languages (e.g. French, Spanish) and previous experience working across multiple European countries would be considered an advantage
• Experience of working with Jira.

What can you expect when you become a YouGover?

• We have competitive benefits and in addition to this, YouGov offers a designated day off that you can use to rest and recharge as we understand the importance of health and wellbeing and excellent work / life balance.
• You will also have the option to work abroad for up to 30 days in a calendar year.
• We're big on learning, so all YouGovers have first-hand access to the vast number of courses available to help you develop your career.
• Hybrid working arrangement across our locations.
• A collaborative, diverse, and inclusive team culture.

Make an impact. Shape the employee experience. Be part of something global. Apply now and let's build the future of HR together.
Why join YouGov?
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people's opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

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