HR Partner

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services - creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

HR Partner

Management level: 7-Manager

Job summary

Being part of Human Resources at Accenture is an opportunity to become a HR Practitioner, at the frontlines of our talent strategy, helping accelerate Accenture’s ability to create high touch and personalized experiences for our people.

If you love solving complex challenges at the intersection of our business and our people, then Human Resources at Accenture is the right place for you. You’ll be joining a diverse group of individuals with unique experiences, backgrounds, and ideas. Together, we’ll bring both our hearts and our minds to work each day to help our people be their best and deliver human-centered insights and solutions at speed and scale for our business.

Becoming a HR practitioner doesn’t happen by chance. We invest in capability development in a big way and our aspiration is to develop and grow world-class, future-ready HR professionals who are compassionate, innovative, agile, and continuous learners.

HR Partners support the HR needs for the individuals in their groups as needed. HR Partners supporting Avanade will be fully focused on providing HR support for the Avanade business.

Key responsibilities

• Provide individual employee and leader coaching and guidance
• Manage key, large scale HR processes – for example performance achievement process.
• Accountable to take issues to closure in the areas of career development, engagement, compensation, training, performance achievement (performance counselling).
• Help build a community for people with similar skills/client focus for the groups they support
• Play a key role as a regional onboarding coordinator.
• Work closely with the Talent Strategist and business on the execution of the talent strategy by understanding talent priorities and talent programs to make employees aware of specific opportunities.
• Use data and storytelling to deliver insights to the business around key talent related metrics.
• Collaborate with other HR teams to understand talent priorities and to develop and execute strategies and actions around inclusion & diversity, employee experience, and learning / up-skilling.
• Deliver 360° value by looking for automations and efficiencies that elevate the employee experience and enhance the way we work.
• Leverage the employee listening strategy and action planning to support employee engagement and strategic people programs
• Provide support for employees so they can be proficient in their own self-service support
• Capture and effectively escalate moderate/serious ER concerns to central ER to collaborate on investigations & resolution management.
• Collaborate with Talent Strategist to understand talent priorities and talent programs to make employees aware of specific opportunities.
• Work with the scheduler as necessary to provide insight into employee aspirations & coaching people on “best fit” roles
• Work with Global Mobility team on Visa escalations, work permits, immigration matters
• Liaise with Employee Relations, Legal and People Mobility to ensure compliance with local laws and practices.
• Work with business leaders to identify and propose the right talent for development programs.
• Lead a team of HR Partners and provide guidance to ensure the team is aligned with business needs and talent strategies.
• Provide coaching, learning and career guidance to ensure the HR Partner team is aligned with business needs and Avanade talent strategies.
• Support key escalations across the HR Partner team working with executive stakeholders.

Job requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in human resources, business Administration, psychology, related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5-12 years of prior experience in Human Resources.
• Proven experience in employee relations, performance management, and HR strategy implementation.
• In-depth understanding of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations.
• Strong leadership, team management and coaching skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to develop and implement strategies human resources initiatives
• Ability to analyze HR metrics and develop data-driven solutions.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with business leaders and employees
• Familiarity with talent management, organizational development and change management
• Ability to take initiative and drive HR projects forward
• Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and environments
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• Advanced level of English (mandatory)

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.