HR Generalist

Energy Innovation Corp; City of Yonkers (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning stipends

Flexible Yonkers hours

Job summary

Aetna in Yonkers, NY is offering an internship HR Generalist role that blends budgeting, process improvement, and employee relations with hands-on ownership of projects. The internship opens pathways to real business impact and growth within the HR function.

You will engage in budgeting cycles, vendor coordination, and headcount planning while developing essential people-management skills in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• A knack for Customer Service that colleagues quietly come to rely on.
• Senior mastery of Training Facilitation, validated by people who'd hire you again.
• Comfort steering business conversations toward a decision.
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten.
• Practical Persuasion skills sharpened in an internship setting.
• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter.
• Working knowledge of Employee Relations alongside transferable BambooHR chops.

Responsibilities

• Oversee budgeting cycles and hold teams accountable to spending targets
• Track project budgets and flag variances before they escape
• Decide which Yonkers accounts get the white-glove treatment and why
• Champion process improvements that scale with Aetna growth
• Own the relationship with the Compensation and Benefits vendor so it stops being a fire drill
• Set the generously-mentoring operational standards that keep Aetna running smoothly
• Read the Headcount Planning signals early enough to steer before the quarter closes
• Forecast demand and align operational capacity accordingly

Skills

Customer Service

Training Facilitation

Decision Making

Documentation

Persuasion

Attention to Detail

Employee Relations

Tools

BambooHR

Job description

Aetna runs on hunches less these days, which is exactly why we're opening this internship HR Generalist seat in Yonkers, NY. This is where 6 years becomes $115,000 - $157,000, where internship hours meet real business ownership, and where Aetna bets on you.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee budgeting cycles and hold teams accountable to spending targets
• Track project budgets and flag variances before they escape
• Decide which Yonkers accounts get the white-glove treatment and why
• Champion process improvements that scale with Aetna growth
• Own the relationship with the Compensation and Benefits vendor so it stops being a fire drill
• Set the generously-mentoring operational standards that keep Aetna running smoothly
• Read the Headcount Planning signals early enough to steer before the quarter closes
• Forecast demand and align operational capacity accordingly

What You'll Bring

• A knack for Customer Service that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Senior mastery of Training Facilitation, validated by people who'd hire you again
• Comfort steering business conversations toward a decision
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• Practical Persuasion skills sharpened in an internship setting
• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
• Working knowledge of Employee Relations alongside transferable BambooHR chops

Aetna makes Customer Service look simple, which anyone in business knows is the generously-mentoring hardest thing to pull off. Transparency is a habit, so roadmaps, tradeoffs, and even mistakes get shared openly.

At Aetna the paycheck opens at $115,000 - $157,000 and the perks, from learning stipends to flexible Yonkers, NY hours, only widen from there.

Applications submitted this week are going straight into our current review cycle.