HR Generalist

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring an HR Generalist to support our growing team With 1,200+ colleagues across 75​ ​countries, we require an HR function that thinks and acts globally.​ We're looking for an HR Generalist who will report into our Regional HR Manager who can help build our company as we go through continued growth plans. It's an exciting time to join with the opportunity to help shape and create an HR function for the future. You will demonstrate a high work ethic and the personal confidence to set and defend high expectations of colleagues, counterparts and processes. You must be able to work independently, take a hands-on approach, and interface effectively with professionals at all levels. You'll need excellent communication, professional and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to function in a proactive, innovative environment. We look to HR both to support our colleagues in their personal needs and development, and also to maintain consistently high standards across multiple teams, managers and directors. The role entails the individual to: • Provide HR guidance to team members and managers, setting high expectations of behaviour and performance. • Partner with line managers to provide employee relations advice on global policies and procedures. • Ensure accuracy and timeliness in processing employee changes, joiners and leavers. • Manage and drive benefit programs spanning either our EMEA (UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain) or AMER (US, Canada and Brazil) locations • Liaise with our finance team on monthly payroll, projects and enquiries. • Support the full life-cycle of HR including onboarding, benefit administration, and departure. • Apply critical thinking to automate and reduce administrative tasks. • Take a lead role in the management, continued development, and integration of our HR • system. • Act as a system expert and advocate for the global HR team. <li&gt Job description: Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA