Company Overview:
Augment Risk is a transformative reinsurance broker offering tailored solutions for its clients and partners. The firm offers a market-making approach to reinsurance, broking the entire business for its property and casualty clients to maximize enterprise value and catalyse growth.
The role:
The HR Associate will play a pivotal role in building and sustaining a high-performing, diverse, and engaged workforce at Augment. As the key point of contact in the US, you will play a crucial role in supporting the CPO to develop and implement HR strategies, policies, and programs to facilitate our expansion. You will have the opportunity to shape our corporate culture and talent management practices as we continue to scale globally.
Key Responsibilities:
HR:
- Provide people operations administrative support, including supporting various people operations systems, inputting employee data and changes, manage performance review and engagement survey deployment, maintain employee files
- Coordinate and assist with the onboarding of new hires, ensuring new hires have access to necessary resources and technology, and manage tasks associated with smooth offboarding of employees (e.g., exit interviews)
- Serve as the initial point of contact on People team on a day-to-day basis for employee questions about benefits and people processes
- Maintain, improve, and document people related processes and coordinate with Finance and IT with respect to people related needs
- Provide additional support as needed, in areas such as benefits, administering leaves of absence, company surveys, payroll, trainings, performance reviews, background checks and immigration administration
- Support data reporting and analytics, including tracking and analysing people related metrics, analysis of survey results, and completing required employment compliance reports
- Support with adhoc HR projects
Recruitment:
- Maintain recruitment tracker, CV library and help to coordinate interviews
- Develop job ads (in collaboration with business leads)
- Support linkedin search and CV screening.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field; HR certification preferred.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to communicate, clearly and effectively, making people feel supported and heard.
- Experience identifying and solving problems and making continuous improvements.
- Knowledge of US HR best practices, labour laws, and compliance regulations.
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
- Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in HR software and tools.
- Experience working in a global environment preferred (UK, US, Europe and Bermuda).
Why work for us:
- We will provide you with the opportunity to be inventive and innovative, we love challenging industry norms.
- You will work in a multi-disciplinary environment, collaborating closely with talented individuals within a flat structure.
- You will be trusted and encouraged to take ownership and accountability.
- We adopt a work from anywhere approach. Our colleagues and clients are globally distributed which means flexibility is key to delivering great client outcomes, and that’s what matters to us.
- We believe in rewarding success, and we want everyone to share in the value we create – therefore, all our employees are offered equity.
- We look after our people and their loved ones. Our employee benefits are designed with that in mind.
Augment Risk is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.