Human Resources Business Partner

USA015 Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company match

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Sabbatical leave

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC is seeking a senior HR professional to partner with senior leaders, shape strategy for inclusion and employee engagement, and oversee learning, development, onboarding, and HR systems. The role focuses on delivering strategic HR plans while maintaining high data integrity and compliance across Workday and SharePoint.

You will influence C-suite communications and drive best practices in talent management. The position requires six years of HR experience, U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent HR experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to align business strategies with goals.
• Identify opportunities to build diverse teams for growth.
• Provide strategic direction for inclusion, belonging, and employee engagement practices.
• Manage learning and development programs and custom training as needed.
• Support performance management and leadership accountability.
• Support onboarding and offboarding initiatives.
• Advise on conflict resolution in employee relations matters.
• Guide leave-of-absence policies for employees.
• Administer HR systems including Workday, SharePoint, and training.
• Maintain data integrity and compliance reporting in Workday.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to share the TRSS brand as a top workplace for years.

Skills

Attention to detail

Plan and organize

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in psychology, HR, business, or related field

Equivalent experience considered in lieu of a degree

Tools

Workday

HR SharePoint

Compliance reporting

HR case management

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Partnering with senior leaders to align business strategies with business goals
• Proactively identifying opportunities to further strengthen and build diverse teams to support growth within the organization
• Providing strategic direction for the continued development of inclusion, belonging, and employee engagement practices.
• Managing the learning and development program while facilitating and supporting custom development training based on employee and business needs
• Supporting the performance management cycle, including driving people leader accountability on key deadlines
• Supporting talent through onboarding and offboarding initiatives
• Advising employees and managers on conflict resolution regarding employee relations matters
• Providing employees with guidance and resources related to leave of absences
• Managing HR system administration, including Workday transactions and case management, the HR SharePoint, and required training
• Managing required compliance reporting and maintaining data integrity through Workday
• Partnering with the Talent Acquisition Specialists to provide insight on ways TRSS can continue to share their brand as a multi-year Washington Post Top Workplace

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, human resources, business, or a related field. Equivalent experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum 6 years in a Human Resources profession, with increasing levels of responsibility
• Passion for strategy and creativity balanced with strong attention to detail
• Ability to plan, organize, and adapt in a fast-paced working environment while managing multiple, competing priorities across strategic and transactional work
• Excellent communication skills to work with department leads, program managers, and C-Suite executives, ensuring all necessary individuals are informed of business updates
• Exemplify the TRSS values of Care, Character, Collaboration, and Trust
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance
• U.S. Citizenship essential to comply with government contract/agency or department of Federal Government requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting employee engagement, inclusion, belonging, learning and development, or HR systems initiatives in a growing organization.
• Experience with Workday, HR SharePoint administration, compliance reporting, or HR case management.
• Ability to build trusted partnerships with senior leaders, program managers, department leads, and cross-functional stakeholders.

What’s in it For You?

Hybrid Work Model

We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

Career Development and Growth

By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

Industry Competitive Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture

Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

Social Impact

Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Making a Real-World Impact

We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees.

Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Base Compensation and Locations

The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $85,500 USD - $158,700 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.

Here, you will collaborate with smart, ambitious people who thrive on solving complex problems, delivering market-leading solutions, and innovating with curiosity and care.

To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.

Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace. Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at [e-mail]. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.