Global People Operations Associate, Emerging Markets

500 Global; Kuala Lumpur; Vor Ort; MYR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

500 Global in Kuala Lumpur seeks a Global People Operations Associate to lead employment compliance, onboarding, mobility and benefits for entities outside the Americas, including Malaysia and several international markets. The role partners with the Payroll Lead, maintains audit-ready records, localises country handbooks, and tracks regulatory changes across emerging markets.

You will support HRIS processes, manage vendor relationships and help implement performance improvements in a

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering HR operations across multiple countries.
• Knowledge of employment law and statutory obligations in multiple jurisdictions.
• Payroll literacy and ability to interrogate country inputs/outputs.
• Experience administering mobility, visas or work passes.
• Familiarity with HRIS and HR workflow tools; comfortable with AI-assisted workflows.

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end people operations across global entities (excluding Americas).
• Ensure employment compliance, registrations, deadlines and country handbooks localisation.
• Serve as payroll interface and support final settlement calculations.
• Manage mobility, immigration passes, renewals and right-to-work validation.
• Oversee employer-of-record lifecycle, invoices and per-head cost tracking.
• Administer regional benefits and insurance, renewals and vendor management.
• Document performance improvement plans and separation-related paperwork.
• Coordinate leave, probation, confirmations and timely written communications.
• Provide first-line responses to regional HR queries across time zones.

Kenntnisse

HR Operations

Employment Compliance

Payroll Liaison

Mobility & Immigration

HRIS

Documentation

Stakeholder Management

Jobbeschreibung

Global People Operations Associate, Emerging Markets

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Posted on 09/10/2026

• Country Malaysia
• Region Southeast Asia

About Us

500 Global is a venture capital firm with $2.2B in assets under management that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive

Job Description

Job Scope

The Global People Operations Associate owns people operations, employment compliance and employee relations execution for 500 Global’s entities outside the Americas - spanning Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Egypt, UAE and KSA.

The role is a functional lead for all employment and engagement onboarding, mobility, and benefits management, and a business partner on performance management, restructuring and other material employment matters. Working within a shared set of systems and workflows and documenting as they go, the Global People Operations Associateprovides the firm with reliable, audit-ready employment infrastructure in every market where we operate.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end people operations across global entities (excluding Americas), from offer and onboarding through role changes to exit, including contracts from approved templates, records hygiene and audit-ready electronic files.

Execute employment compliance in every market, tracking employer obligations, statutory registrations and filing deadlines, supporting localisation of country handbooks, and monitoring legislative change.

Serve as the payroll interface to the global Payroll Lead, validating monthly country inputs, and supporting final settlement calculations on separation.

Own mobility and immigration across emerging markets, including employment passes, renewals and dependent visas, ensuring every offer and continuing engagement is supported by a valid right to work.

Manage the employer-of-record lifecycle, including provider migrations, contract renewals, invoice reconciliation and per-head cost tracking.

Administer regional benefits and insurance, running annual medical and life renewals and managing benefit vendors across emerging markets.

Implement performance improvement plans and support employment matters, preparing separation, disciplinary, and restructure documentation from counsel input, executing separation logistics and maintaining complete confidential files.

Administer the performance and compensation cycles locally, issuing confirmation, promotion and increase letters, updating contracts and systems, and notifying payroll once decisions are approved.

Track probation and confirmation dates and issue written confirmations on time, and administer leave in line with statutory entitlements in each jurisdiction.

Provide first-line response on regional queries through the HR inbox, escalating cleanly and giving the business genuine coverage across time zones.

Support HR set-up for new entities, delivering templates, statutory registrations, and a localised handbook.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

At least 7 years proven experience delivering HR operations across multiple countries, ideally within a shared services, regional or global business.

Working knowledge of employment law and statutory employer obligations in at least three jurisdictions, with the discipline to research and apply new ones. Solution oriented in being able to shape and determine practical outcomes.

Hands-on experience implementing performance improvement plans, restructures or disciplinary processes, and the judgement to handle confidential and contentious matters with care.

Practical payroll literacy, able to prepare and interrogate country payroll inputs and outputs and manage vendors, without needing to own the payroll run.

Experience administering employment passes, visas or other mobility and immigration processes.

Comfort working with HRIS and workflow tools, with a habit of documenting processes. Familiarity and comfort with using AI tools to improve workflows.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to work independently with a wide range of stakeholders, from our team to founders, external counsel and service providers.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment while managing multiple priorities under pressure.

Global and cultural awareness, and excitement about working in a diverse, international environment.

Exceptional attention to detail and a bias to action.