MEA HR Risk, Governance and Ops oversight Specialist, AS

Role Description

The Business Management Specialist is responsible for ensuring the execution of activities from the wide range of Business Management tasks, either directly responsible for task execution or indirectly responsible via the efforts of other team members.

The Business Manager Specialists responsibilities may include all or some of the following, financial planning and business forecasting, reporting output quality and performance metrics, ensuring satisfactory infrastructure and control function service level delivery and supplier sourcing and pricing negotiations. In addition, the Business Management Specialist may be responsible for analyzing the impact of changes and evaluating the corresponding changes to cost and the impact to the forecast.

The Business Management Specialist is responsible for defining, implementing and continuously improving policies, processes and procedures that deliver consistent and reliable products and services. The Business Management Specialist may oversee the work of Lead Business Management Analysts and/ or Business Management Analysts.

Your key responsibilities

This role is responsible to varying degrees for (but not limited to) the following topics for HR India:

• Establishing and monitoring proper internal control and governance processes for HR and policies/procedures
• Oversight and management of vendors for labor law compliance
• Managing relationship with governing statutory bodies for MEA region including filing and reporting of regulatory returns with the authorities
• Working with Legal and Global Sourcing on Vendor reviews, selections and appointments
• Managing HR Vendor relationships
• Documentation and review of Key Operating Procedures for regulatory reporting
• Governance over HR Policies
• Coordinating HR inputs to HR audits and Risk Workshops and resulting actions/reports.
• Managing the relationship withHR Operations team in India
• Governing the SLAs of HR & HR Operations, including the monitoring of established KPIs, and ensuring escalation to HR country Head and Regional HR COO, as appropriate

Your skills and experience

• 5-8 years experience in some combination of governance or control functions
• Working knowledge of Labor Laws
• Good knowledge of MS Office products
• Fluent English language skills, including excellent written communication style
• Management experience, including managing activities/solutions remotely
• Strong Advisory skills
• Performance Orientation and track record of delivery within agreed measures for success
• Proven track record of acting with integrity and fairness
• Openness to Innovation & Change, and to helping lead others through the change process
• Leader and team player
• Understanding and experience of risk management processes
• Experienced project management skills with track record of delivery on time and within budget
• Experience with Middle East Banking like [Central Bank of UAE, SAMA, UFC]
• Arabic Speaking is Good to have [not mandatory]