Senior Employee Relations Advisor

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Job Title

Senior Employee Relations Advisor

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Senior Employee Relations Advisor provides advice and counsel to executives, people leaders and employees on complex workplace situations, providing a fair and transparent employee experience while managing risk to RBC. Part of the role is to ensure compliance with policy, regulatory requirements and applicable federal, state, and local employment and human rights legislation.

The Senior Employee Relations Advisor offers expertise in employee relations and coaches and ensures Employee Relations Advisors (ERAs) are aware of all applicable laws/policies/guidelines and provides practical, solution oriented, and reputable employee relations advice to executives, leaders and managers. The Senior Advisor will also directly partner with Directors/ERAs on more complex matters situations.

What will you do?

• Provides expert advice on workplace issues and concerns to executives and senior leaders to assist in managing and resolving complex employee issues and investigations.
• Manages complex cases and provides first point of escalation for ERAs to simplify complex issues and provides proactive strategies for risk management and remediation.
• Manages risk and improve manager and employee experience through enabling and ensuring well informed, fair and transparent decisions which place employees at the center and focus on RBC Values while making recommendations for continuous improvement
• Champions Employee Relations initiatives with significant impact on employees and/or workplace risk.
• Partners with global and US colleagues on reporting requests, projects and cross-border workplace investigations
• Conducts required audits, in partnership with HR and other partners as needed (e.g. Contingent Worker, FLSA, etc.)
• Oversees the development of processes and tools to support the delivery of Employee Relations activities.
• Contributes to the development of processes to track and report on trends and emerging issues relevant to business lines supported, and provide HR Business Partners and business leaders with meaningful and actionable information on trends and emerging issues in US workplaces.
• Accepts and successfully executes change while supporting ERAs through the process, and keeping them focused on business priorities.
• As needed, provide support for ad-hoc HR projects, initiatives and coverage needs.
• Contribute from a continuous process improvement perspective to help strengthen and support the internal control environment by ensuring compliance requirements are met and gaps, if any, are escalated and/or addressed.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-haves:

• Employment law experience or a minimum 7+ years direct experience in Employee Relations/Human Resources (ER/HR)
• College degree required and HR certification preferred
• Strong knowledge of US employment law and regulations (federal, state & local)
• Significant Experience in conducting and/or managing workplace investigations
• Proven experience aligning and integrating risk management with business and HR strategy
• Strategic thinking, analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Experience establishing and managing relationships with executives and senior level stakeholders

Nice-to-haves:

• Juris Doctorate and active law license
• Experience in an in-house legal department or law firm
• Experience at financial services organization

What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits and competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

Job Summary

Address:

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

City:

USA-MN-MINNEAPOLIS

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Human Resources

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2023-01-20-08:00

Application Deadline:

2023-02-03-08:00

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.

We also strive to provide an accessible candidate experience for our prospective employees with different abilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.

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