Coordinator, APAC HR Operations

Bain & Company, Inc.; Kuala Lumpur; Remote; MYR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company APAC HR Operations in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Coordinator to own delivery of HR activities across offices. You will handle data entry, HRIS updates, and end-to-end paperwork with a strong focus on accuracy and deadlines.

Working remotely with HR stakeholders, you will develop processes, manage multiple tasks, and support onboarding, leaves, and reporting initiatives within a fast-paced professional services environment.

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree required; 1–3 years of admin/HR experience preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Strong written and verbal communication; detail-oriented and organized.
• Experience with HRIS systems; Workday a plus.

Responsibilities

• Data entry for HR processes across supported offices in Workday.
• Administer end-to-end process support and paperwork (onboarding, leaves, departures).
• Time & Absence (T&A) support and troubleshooting for HR systems and policies.
• Provide data for ad-hoc HR reporting and regular analytics to stakeholders.
• Manage customer requests via ServiceNow with timely, professional responses.

Skills

Administrative HR

Time management

Communication

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Education

Associate or Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday

Job description

COMPANY PROFILE

Bain & Company is one of the top management consulting firms in the world that helps the world’s most ambitious changemakers define the future.

Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperforming thecompetition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better,faster, and more enduring outcomes.

The firm established several functions in the Indian market early 2000s and its remit across functions has expanded over time. Since 2019, thesefunctions have become part of Global Business Services (GBS). Global Business Services (GBS) is a network of five interconnected business functionshubs across India, Poland, Malaysia, Mexico and Portugal, serving Bain globally to run our business, support other functions, and help driveinnovation internally. We are over 1000 business professionals – serving functions in operations, HR, finance, legal, tech, marketing, research, anddata analytics – who support our offices globally. Our mantra of “shared innovation, seamless execution,” underpinned by a passion for results,teamwork, and creativity, helps Bain stay at the top of our game operationally.

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. We are currently the top-ranked consultingfirm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times.

Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focuson bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusivework environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thriveprofessionally and personally.

Department Overview

APAC HR Operations is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is part of a globally connected HR Operations function. The HR Operations team supports scalable HR operations for Bain offices located in APAC. The department’s mission is to drive process standardization and centralization across offices to support the company’s continued growth and to maintain its position as the best place to work.

Position Summary

The coordinator’s role is to own delivery for specified HR activities and processes in allocated offices. The role is varied, deadline-driven, and demands exceptional time management and attention to detail. This position requires daily use of multiple core Bain systems and applications and may cover all areas of Bain Human Capital operations (Consulting Staff Professional Development, Business Functions HR, Employee Administration, Human Capital Analytics) according to the needs of the supported offices and areas of specialization.

The coordinator will work independently and remotely from the people supported and therefore, excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to forge strong and successful working relationships without face-to-face interaction is essential. This role requires interactions with HR and Program Management teams, as well as employees, in supported offices, often with competing priorities and deadlines.

Therefore, this role requires a strong sense of customer service and an ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks. The coordinator will be expected to get up to speed quickly on their dedicated system and demonstrate an understanding of process, how the HR Operations team’s various systems work together, and how the Coordinator’s work impacts the company and its various stakeholders.

This role requires an ability to recognize patterns, offer creative solutions, and implement process improvements that benefit the team and its customers.

Essential Functions

• Workday:
  • Performs data entry for supported offices for all business processes, including contract management, background checks, new hires, job changes, compensation changes, termination and EIB uploads, departures, transfers, and bonus payouts
  • Ensures HR data is error free in advance of payroll deadlines, headcount reporting deadlines, and other major milestones, such as hire and departure dates
  • Drives proactive engagement of local HR teams in supported offices to confirm Workday events are accurate (hires, leaves, transfers, terminations, probation periods)
  • Ensures compensation information is error-free in the HRIS and consistent with data in local payroll systems for supported population/offices
  • Ensure leaves are tracked in the HRIS, according to standards required in each supported office (monitoring returns from leave and contractual leave agreements).
  • Ensures required supporting documents are available and stored in HRIS according to standards in supported offices.
  • Performs proactive auditing of information within systems: compensation, LOAs, transfers, terminations, probation periods
  • Responds to requests for Verifications of Employment in a timely fashion
  • Provides data for ad-hoc reporting requests to support various people analytics
  • Provides regular data reporting for customers and stakeholder groups, such as payroll audits and anniversary reports.
• Paperwork management:
  • Administer end-to-end process support and paperwork generation across various employee lifecycles, including but not limited to pre-boarding, offer letters, onboarding, leave of absences, and departures
• Global Training Liaison:
  • Coordinate, track, and confirm Trainee and Trainer assignments for Global Training sessions
  • Liaise between the Global Training Department and Local HR and Staffing teams to confirm attendees and ensure global policies are upheld
  • Act as primary point of contact and expert on session attendance policies
  • Lead annual participant forecasting process
• Time & Absence (T&A):
  • Responsible for helping customers trouble shoot questions related to time and absence submission and approval in Workday, as well as time & absence company policies
  • Act as main point of contact for T&A support for onboarded officesProvide regular hours and sustainability reporting to Program Management and HR Teams
  • Ensure vacations and absences are routing to the appropriate approvers; help troubleshoot issues and make changes as needed
• Provide data for ad-hoc data requests to support people’s movement and sustainability analyses
• Manage customer request intake for various processes via ServiceNow forms in a timely, professional, and accurate manner, maintaining our global response time SLAs

Qualifications

EducationRequired: associate or bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

Required: 1-3 years of professional work experience is required, preferably in administrative HR roles

• Computer literate; proficient in using Microsoft Outlook, Word & Internet along with excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience of working in a demanding environment, preferably professional services or with a blue-chip company in an administrative capacity
• Experience working in ambiguity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to adjust communication approach to audience
• Previous use of HRIS systems; Workday experience a plus

Preferred

• Able to deal appropriately with highly confidential information
• Honest, trustworthy people’s person
• Able to effectively manage time with competing business priorities
• Able to communicate effectively with all levels
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Outstanding organization, prioritization and time management skills
• Motivated – self starter
• Able to be proactive - and work on own initiative
• Flexible attitude and team approach
• Diplomatic, with an appreciation for Partner confidentiality
• Efficient and accurate
• Enthusiastic, dedicated, hardworking and committed to meeting deadlines
• Pleasant and calm even when under pressure
• An interest in the substance and commercial impact of Bain’s work