HR Generalist

As our APAC business continues to grow, we are looking for a HR Generalist to support employees and managers across a broad range of day-to-day HR activities.

Partnering with HR Business Partners and a HR Generalist, this role covers employee relations, onboarding and offboarding, performance review processes, manager support and general HR operations.

This role suits someone who enjoys variety, brings a practical mindset, builds strong working relationships, and is ready to apply their HR experience in a growing, fast-paced business.

This role offers genuine breadth across employee relations, manager coaching, HR operations and project work within a growing APAC business.

You will bring your existing HR experience to a collaborative team, working alongside HR Business Partners and contributing to a business that is continuing to scale.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia.

This role sits within a small collaborative HR team supporting the business across APAC.

You will work closely with experienced HR Business Partners, with the autonomy to manage your own work and clear support available on complex matters.

The ideal candidate is organized, practical and comfortable managing a varied generalist workload.

What you’ll do

Employee Relations & Manager Support

• Coach and support managers through employee relations matters, including performance, conduct, and grievances.
• Provide practical guidance on routine ER matters, maintaining accurate documentation and partnering with senior HR stakeholders on more complex cases.
• Guide employees and managers in applying company policies and procedures.
• Apply working knowledge of the Fair Work Act 2009, National Employment Standards, and relevant modern awards.

HR Operations

• Serve as a first point of contact for HR queries.
• Assist with onboarding, induction and offboarding processes, including exit interviews.
• Lead coordination of key HR activities, including performance review cycles.
• Maintain accurate employee records, HR data and documentation.
• Support WHS activities and return-to-work coordination.
• Contribute to the annual WGEA submission.
• Drive HR projects and process improvements.
• Process ad-hoc employee requests.
• Support HR communications.

Experience and Knowledge

• Minimum 4 years' experience in an HR Generalist or similar HR advisory role.
• Experience in managing employee relations matters, including performance and conduct.
• Working knowledge of Australian employment legislation.
• Strong documentation and organisational skills.
• Experience across the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding and offboarding.

How You Work

• Proactive and accountable, with the confidence to manage your own workload.
• Exercises sound judgement and know when to escalate.
• Communicate professionally with stakeholders at all levels.
• Builds strong, trusted working relationships.
• Manages competing priorities without losing attention to detail.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, with a pragmatic approach to identifying solutions and driving process improvements.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience in financial services, technology or another fast-paced corporate environment.
• Exposure to HR activities across APAC.
• A degree in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline.

What’s in it for you 

• Our flat hierarchy enables you to drive meaningful impact, by leveraging your expertise and taking ownership.
• Private healthcare and gym allowances, plus wellness initiatives.
• Additional leave entitlements including marriage leave and 2 bonus days annually.
• Fully stocked kitchen, with daily breakfast and lunch.
• Regular social, sporting and community events including annual poker tournament.
• Matched donations and corporate discounts.
• Explore our benefits and culture: link

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

What we do 

Susquehanna’s deep integration of trading, technology and quant research makes us experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives. We handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day as both a market maker and market taker. Our efforts provide liquidity and ensure competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized to allow for a deep understanding of the unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to recruiting@sig.com. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.

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