Employment Hero Looking for HR Support Consultant New Zealand at New Zealand Full Time

Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution. 

Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million employees. 

The EH Way

At Employment Hero, we’re proud of our unique DNA, which we call The EH Way.  

This role 

We’re a team of global innovators, who cherish diverse perspectives that fuel our mission; to simplify the world of work for SMBs worldwide.

Our HR Support Consultants are partners to our clients and are responsible for gathering information and ensuring their continued support and success after implementing our Employment Hero HR product. In this role, you will be supporting our customers to ensure accuracy and correctness of HR compliance and legislative conditions of employment for our clients. Addressing customer issues with professionalism and care, and escalating to the appropriate teams where necessary.

Your key focus areas will be:

• Supporting customers post go-live by resolving HR-related queries with care, speed, and accuracy
• Driving confident HR platform adoption and usage by offering proactive guidance and compliance expertise
• Contributing to ongoing product and process improvements using customer feedback and insights
• Reducing HR support escalations by providing effective first-touch resolutions and knowledge-sharing

This will include

• You will provide support to clients after they ‘go-live’ by walking them through updates needed or how to troubleshoot in a variety of ways, such as award interpretation and platform configuration
• You will respond to HR related queries from internal support team members and external clients via email, phone and the Employment Hero platform
• Take on client and team HR escalations for our customers
• Assist with requirements gathering to run post mortem’s and run internal support team workshops
• Assist with troubleshooting and client queries; coordinate with internal teams for successful delivery
• You will work closely with your team of Support Consultants and lead the HR platform adoption to meet each client’s specific requests
• You will help to build and continually improve documentation, and embrace new & existing technologies to improve the way we provide service, both for our customers and for our internal team of Support Consultants
• You will be creative, aiming to simplify and improve processes to help team operations run more efficiently and increase client happiness

Who you are 

To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way – operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring

• A background in HR or related field is important
• Previous experience in setting up, implementing or administering HRIS/HCM systems
• A confident and engaging communicator who is comfortable building relationships with a variety of people
• Well-organised approach to your work. You can juggle multiple priorities and deadlines
• An attitude that always puts your customer’s needs first
• The ability to identify issues or problems early on and work collaboratively with your team to remove roadblocks and fix problems
• Strong and polished verbal and written communication skills
• High level of emotional intelligence and maturity

What we can offer

At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work – we live it. Joining Employment Hero means

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs 
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies 
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes – a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities 

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Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.