Manager, HR Business Partner

The Team: The Corporate team unites a variety of functions at Morningstar including design, marketing, finance, quality, human resources, corporate communications, legal, compliance, strategic planning, and technology with the goal of keeping our business running smoothly. Each of these functions plays an essential role in supporting our company's infrastructure, day-to-day operations, and ongoing strategic initiatives.

The Role: We believe that people are our most important asset. Our people – through their creativity, talent, and willingness to learn – are essential to the success of our company. Recruiting and growing our Great People are critical to Morningstar’s future. We need a role that responsible for Talent & Culture Business Partner and daily Talent & Culture operations, who can bring experience with local employment laws and multi-locations practices, and understand the regional business, the kinds of people who succeed here, and how people work together across the company globally. The goal is to provide an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasizes quality, productivity, and goal attainment. This position will be based in our Morningstar Singapore office and support our APAC groups. The role reports to the Head of Talent & Culture (HR), APAC.

Job Responsibilities

• Be excited to work with a global team, sharing local knowledge, understanding our corporate culture and be able to bridge the two

• Bring a demonstrated strength in employee relations and APAC employment law by providing first level consultation for grievances, investigations, and performance management issues; advising on policies, programs, procedures, escalating anything more complex

• Be the champion of company culture, bring positive and consistent experience to the employees in the region.

• Understand and implement talent programs in the responsible region, including compensation, talent development, etc. Collect feedback to the domain team for the continuous improvement.

• Lead or participate in ad-hoc HR Projects both from local and global initiatives

• Lead regional operations to support managers and employees in the region, which includes but not limited to, on-boarding and exit processes, employee movement, benefits administration, vendor management, analysis & reporting, supporting payroll process. Collaborate with domain teams and global shared services team as needed.

• Guide and grow operations team members, maximize the team capacity to deliver employee focused solutions.

• Enjoy collaborating locally and globally, be motivated to working autonomously with an eye for continued process/program improvements

Requirements

• Degree in Human Resources or related discipline with knowledge of APAC region employment/legislative framework

• 7+ years of progressive growth in the HR field, ideally an HR Partner/Generalist within a larger global organization

• Bring knowledge of working within a matrix organization supporting different business units

• Experiences of leading or implementing cross locations and cross HR domain projects

• Listen actively, communicate clearly and be able to work with all levels across the organization

• High level of attention to detail and problem-solving skills

• High degree of professionalism and integrity with demonstrated ability to handle confidential issues in a professional manner

• Strong organizational and time management skills with the flexibility and willingness to respond to changing priorities

• Competent in Microsoft Office tools. HRIS experience in Workday preferred.

The Team: The Corporate team unites a variety of functions at Morningstar including design, marketing, finance, quality, human resources, corporate communications, legal, compliance, strategic planning, and technology with the goal of keeping our business running smoothly. Each of these functions plays an essential role in supporting our company's infrastructure, day-to-day operations, and ongoing strategic initiatives.

The Role: We believe that people are our most important asset. Our people – through their creativity, talent, and willingness to learn – are essential to the success of our company. Recruiting and growing our Great People are critical to Morningstar’s future. We need a role that responsible for Talent & Culture Business Partner and daily Talent & Culture operations, who can bring experience with local employment laws and multi-locations practices, and understand the regional business, the kinds of people who succeed here, and how people work together across the company globally. The goal is to provide an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasizes quality, productivity, and goal attainment. This position will be based in our Morningstar Singapore office and support our APAC groups. The role reports to the Head of Talent & Culture (HR), APAC.

Job Responsibilities

• Be excited to work with a global team, sharing local knowledge, understanding our corporate culture and be able to bridge the two

• Bring a demonstrated strength in employee relations and APAC employment law by providing first level consultation for grievances, investigations, and performance management issues; advising on policies, programs, procedures, escalating anything more complex

• Be the champion of company culture, bring positive and consistent experience to the employees in the region.

• Understand and implement talent programs in the responsible region, including compensation, talent development, etc. Collect feedback to the domain team for the continuous improvement.

• Lead or participate in ad-hoc HR Projects both from local and global initiatives

• Lead regional operations to support managers and employees in the region, which includes but not limited to, on-boarding and exit processes, employee movement, benefits administration, vendor management, analysis & reporting, supporting payroll process. Collaborate with domain teams and global shared services team as needed.

• Guide and grow operations team members, maximize the team capacity to deliver employee focused solutions.

• Enjoy collaborating locally and globally, be motivated to working autonomously with an eye for continued process/program improvements

Requirements

• Degree in Human Resources or related discipline with knowledge of APAC region employment/legislative framework

• 7+ years of progressive growth in the HR field, ideally an HR Partner/Generalist within a larger global organization

• Bring knowledge of working within a matrix organization supporting different business units

• Experiences of leading or implementing cross locations and cross HR domain projects

• Listen actively, communicate clearly and be able to work with all levels across the organization

• High level of attention to detail and problem-solving skills

• High degree of professionalism and integrity with demonstrated ability to handle confidential issues in a professional manner

• Strong organizational and time management skills with the flexibility and willingness to respond to changing priorities

• Competent in Microsoft Office tools. HRIS experience in Workday preferred.