Rippling Looking for Senior HR Advisor, NZ (part-time) at New Zealand Full Time

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes.

About The Role

Rippling is rapidly expanding its global operations and adding numerous exciting new HR initiatives to its portfolio of world class products and services. This is an exciting opportunity to be a member of a new Rippling team in New Zealand! As a Senior HR Advisor, you will support Rippling in helping manage the entire employee lifecycle for international hires: from initial onboarding to offboarding, and everything in between.

This role will be responsible for managing all employee relations issues for our clients, including but not limited to performance management, grievances/claims, investigating complaints, managing approvals for leaves of absence, as well as answering our client’s HR questions. This role will also be responsible for all in-country payroll processes and administration and help address client and employee’s payroll queries in New Zealand.

What You Will Do

• Execute leave of absence management, performance management, terminations, anti-harassment, and other HR challenges that present legal or regulatory risk to our client’s businesses
• Manage employee claims related to unemployment benefits, leave benefits, disability benefits, workers’ compensation, and employee grievances
• Manage all aspects of payroll in a timely and accurate manner and answer client and employee questions about New Zealand payroll
• Work closely with the Global Payroll team on integrations with the payroll software and ensure all inputs and outputs are accurate (contributions and deductions, variable compensation, remittances)
• Support client and external employee queries and collaborate across internal teams, such as: sales, implementation, support and client services teams to meet our commitments to our clients
• Work closely with our product and engineering teams to develop a best in class HR Services offering, to leverage technology and ease the administrative burden of HR compliance

What You Will Need

• 6+ years of experience providing HR advice / consulting services to clients, or in an internal HR business function for a fast-paced organisation
• 6+ years of full payroll administration experience
• Deep understanding of human resources and payroll compliance rules and regulations across jurisdictions
• Experience managing employee claims related to unemployment benefits, leave benefits, disability benefits, workers’ compensation, and employee grievances
• Excellent client-facing verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management and organisational skills: high attention to detail with excellent work product, time management, and project execution
• Experience with employees in New Zealand
• Benefits and pension administration, nice to have

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [email protected]