Assistant Manager - Human Resources (Shared Services)
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Landmark Group is seeking an Assistant Manager, Human Resources (Shared Services) for a full time onsite role in the United Arab Emirates. You will manage error free payroll for assigned concepts, maintain accurate payroll and personnel records, ensure audit compliance, respond to employee inquiries, and partner with Business HR and EDM to resolve issues. The role requires 5+ years payroll experience, Oracle Fusion familiarity, UAE labor law knowledge, a bachelor’s or master’s in HR, and advanced Excel. You’ll handle time sheets, attendance, incentives, off cycle payments, onboarding and offboarding, benefits, dashboards, and policy improvements. To apply, tailor your résumé to show UAE payroll, cross functional collaboration, process improvements, and concrete metrics; include examples of dashboards or reconciliations and demonstrate readiness to work onsite in the UAE.
- Managing error free payroll for assigned concepts, addressing payroll queries and reporting
- Bring in data accuracy & efficiency by maintaining both paper-based and electronic documents, including personal information, payroll details, and system.
- Ensuring audit compliance and maintaining critical employee documents and records as required.
- Respond to employee inquiries and provide information on HR policies and procedures ensuring high level employee satisfaction. Partner with Business HR teams and EDM to resolve manager and employee queries.
- Reconciliation for payroll and share monthly dashboards on EDM and payroll transactions
- Handle payroll process by incorporating timely inputs on variables related to attendance, incentives, overtime, etc. while applying the right controls.
- Review time sheets, collation of earnings, deductions inputs, and other information in order to detect and reconcile payroll and employee data discrepancies. Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records and systems.
- Pro-actively identify opportunities for processes, policies and procedures improvements and engage with Senior HR Services Members to drive the appropriate changes
- Updating and maintaining employee records, including personal information, payroll details, and benefits.
- Processing employee onboarding/offboarding process, employee life cycle changes, administering employee benefits programs, such as health insurance etc.
- Respond to employee inquiries and provide information on HR policies and procedures. Partner with internal HR teams, Payroll, and Recruiting to resolve manager and employee queries.
- Approve and process all employee requests like Bank Letters, NOCs, HRA, Salary Advances, etc.
- Manage end to end ADHOC (off-cycle) payments process
- Manage end to end offboarding process
- 5+ years of Payroll experience.
- Experience with HR software applications, preferably Oracle Fusion.
- Basic knowledge of HR processes and UAE labor law is mandatory.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Human Resources.
- Proficiency in MS Office & Advance MS Excel
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Works effectively with cross-functional teams and builds strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to align HR services with the strategic objectives of HR Shared Services. Demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to HR & Employee challenges and opportunities.
Our journey started in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain. Since then, we have grown into a global retail and hospitality group. The proud creator of 25 plus value led, own-built brands across retail, hospitality, food, and leisure.
Over the years, our UAE - based group has evolved into a comprehensive retail and hospitality entity, with over 2200 retail stores, leisure, and hospitality outlets, panning the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Today, Landmark Group is one of GCC's largest omnichannel retailers and India's top home and fashion retailer.
We take immense pride in the organic growth of our retail brands, which have blossomed into household names. From Max, Splash, Babyshop, Centrepoint, Shoemart, Homecentre, Emax, Fitness First, to Funcity, to name a few, our brands span across a multitude of categories, enriching the lives of countless families over the past decade.