HC Senior Associate
On-siteKhobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Job Summary
Manage day-to-day human capital operational activities across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, record updates, transfers, and offboarding while ensuring compliance with local labour laws. Coordinate payroll inputs, validate employee data, and resolve queries with finance teams, alongside tracking visa, work permit, and iqama renewals with government relations. Maintain accurate HR system data, prepare operational dashboards, and support first-level advisory on policies and processes. Identify recurring challenges to recommend process improvements and ensure timely, confidential delivery of employee services. Requires 4+ years of HR operations experience, strong data accuracy, and proficiency in English.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience across HR operations, HR generalist work, payroll coordination, government relations support and / or employee lifecycle processes
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Management or a related field
- Strong understanding of HR operations and employee lifecycle activities
- Working knowledge of payroll inputs, payroll data validation, payroll cut-off timelines, benefits / allowances, end-of-service support and employee payroll query resolution
- Practical understanding of government relations, employment documentation, visa / work permit requirements and iqama-related processes
- Good understanding of confidentiality, employee data accuracy, labour-law-sensitive processes and internal policy compliance
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, organisation and follow-up skills
- Collaborative and solutions-focused approach
- Proficiency in English, written and spoken
- Yes
Desired Qualifications
- Experience within a professional services, multinational or regional environment
- Exposure to business partnering practices and employee service delivery
- Experience coordinating with internal GR / mobility teams
- Arabic
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