People Experience Advisor (12 month FTC)
Xero
People & HR
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2024
Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
About Team
The People Experience (PX) team supports our business with all things People related. Our purpose is to enable our people to do the best work of their lives, setting Xero apart as a truly great place to work. Our global team is made up of Human Resource gurus located in NZ, AU, US, CAN and the UK.
How you’ll make an impact
Working closely with a global team of PX Advisors and Business Partners, this role will be responsible for providing generalist PX/HR advice and guidance, ensuring that world class support is delivered to our ‘customers’ - Xero employees, people leaders and our wider PX team.
Reporting to the Head of PX Advisory, this role incorporates a broad spectrum of advisory responsibility, with a key focus on Employment Relations.
What you’ll do
- Provide meaningful and accurate PX advice and guidance across the full spectrum of PX; including legislative requirements, performance management, employee development, cyclical initiatives, and employment relations.
- In conjunction with the relevant PX Business Partner, you will contribute and support on an array of topics such as change management, investigations, organisational design, and providing reporting, analysis and insights.
- Work in partnership with the Learning Experience team to help identify opportunities to upskill our Xeros and build on our People Leadership capabilities.
- Identify and feedback opportunities for automation and self-service as we embark on a journey to empower our people leaders to take more ownership of the employee experience.
What you’ll bring with you
- Proven PX/HR Advisory experience, particularly Employment Relations experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills including consultation, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Able to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity and creativity to changing needs and situations within the business.
- Current and practical working knowledge of all employment-related legislation and application of PX/HR best practice.
- Practical knowledge and experience in creating and facilitating effective people processes.
- Strong stakeholder management experience.
- An appropriate HR qualification or relevant experience.
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.