Associate, People Partner

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global, multi-strategy investment Firm with over $21 billion in assets under management. We are a diversified business, with global breadth and depth. Our Firm has a clear mission: To consistently deliver uncorrelated returns in all market environments. Today, BAM employs more than 160 portfolio managers and 1,200 investment professionals across 19 offices in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. We are active across six investing strategies: Equities Long/Short, Equities Arbitrage, Macro, Commodities, Systematic, and Growth Equity. We also have a dedicated private investment team, BAM Elevate, and a standalone equities unit, Corbets Capital.

Asia People Operations

An integral part of the Asia People team, you provide local expertise on People-related matters by taking a hands-on approach to execute the People Strategy, ensure operational efficiency and contribute to a positive employee experience. You will help drive a high performing culture that supports Balyasny’s mission, vision, and values.

Business Partnering

• Provide People support and advice to the organization as a primary point of contact, respond to requests and recommend effective solutions.
• Collaborate closely with the Asia People Partner to foster a positive employee experience by assisting with the implementation of programs, enhancing employee satisfaction and retention.
• Manage employee relations matters, including conflict resolutions and disciplinary actions.
• Support with the separation process and own off-boarding activities.
• Maintain knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to day-to-day management of employees by partnering with legal and compliance as required.
• Assist with People metrics, analysis, and reporting’s to identify trends, provide information and insights to support decision making.
• Support the Asia People Partner with key strategic projects and organizational development activities.
• Partner with the global People Team members to ensure a consistent approach throughout the employee life cycle.

People Operations

• Hiring & Onboarding
  • Hiring Candidates into Workday & aiding in the onboarding process
  • New Hire Orientation coordination and presentation
  • Work closely with Business Development, Accounting, Tech, Compliance and People team to respond to all questions from new hire and the manager
  • Assist new hires in questions on the selection or clarification of benefit offerings
• Workday
  • In addition to what has been described elsewhere, all data input, maintenance and updating as required
  • Saving down all personnel documents such as employment contracts
  • Maintaining and updating org charts
• Employment Data Maintenance
  • Management and maintenance of personnel files
  • Maintaining employee files on the People drive
  • Accurately updating employee data on various SharePoint and tracker docs
• Employment Verifications / Letters of Employment / Regulatory References
  • Complete all Regulatory References and general reference requests
  • Whilst there are have standard templates, it is not uncommon to get a niche request that will require consultation with People team or Legal colleagues as appropriate.
  • Background Checks
  • Undertake annual background checks for current staff.
  • Ensuring background checks are comprehensively checked and completed. Review each report and address or highlight issues, partnering with the Compliance team as and when appropriate.
• Benefits
  • Employee data input for benefits, enrolments, amendments, ad hoc updates, etc.
  • Respond to employee benefit questions
• Leavers and Offboarding
  • Undertake the entire leaver administration process, working closely with Accounting, Tech, Compliance and People team to answer all queries
  • Draft separation letters and agreements
  • Assist with correspondence
  • Updating Workday and SharePoint and tracker docs as applicable
• Process improvement
  • Where directed, act as a change agent to identify process improvements, review and update current processes and policies to ensure they adhere to relevant local laws, are best practice, robust and meet business needs.
  • Work in collaboration with colleagues to identify tasks and processes which could be automated; test these processes and provide feedback
• Misc.
  • Responding to queries from managers and employees, ensuring all queries are dealt with correctly and escalate where appropriate.

Skills and Experience

• 5-8 years of experience as an HR Generalist / Administration role, preferably in a dynamic fast paced financial company
• Solid understanding of HR best practices in a global, matrix environment and across HR generalist and CoE roles
• Good understanding of employment law, and regulatory requirements in Asia
• Exceptional ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple responsibilities and deliver results in a dynamic environment
• Strong desire to learn and high attention to detail
• Advanced in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated Workday experience
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize own workload, delivering high quality work by required deadlines
• Good business judgement to resolve problems
• Great sense of empathy, pragmatism, and a proactive can-do mindset
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously