HR Operations Specialist; Seattle

Joining our Russell Investments Human Resources Department means you will be a part of a passionate and supportive team that believes what we do matters to our clients and investors. In this role, you will provide support, information, and services to our global associates. This includes responding to associate inquiries, completing HR transactions in Workday, managing our global HR policies and our HR SharePoint sites, and providing HR operational and administrative support for our HR business partners.

You will also support our Learning & Development and DEI initiatives, manage new hire onboarding, and administratively support our Benefits and Compensation teams.

This role offers you a unique development opportunity where you will receive on-the-job coaching and gain exposure to a broad range of human resources specializations including operations, recruitment, benefits, compensation, DE&I and more. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all that welcomes new ideas and perspectives, and we are looking for people to join us in this meaningful and rewarding work in the asset management industry.

We encourage you to apply if you would like to learn more about our team and how you can grow your career in human resources at Russell Investments.

Salary Range: $68,000 - $75,000

Specific compensation will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, commercial considerations, and other job-related factors permitted by law. At Russell Investments, salary is just one part of our compensation package. Our total rewards approach includes participation in our competitive benefits programs including healthcare, retirement, vacation, and wellbeing programs.

The responsibilities of the individual in this position include:

• Respond to associate inquiries regarding Workday transactions, benefits, payroll, absence, DEI, learning, and general HR policies and procedures.
• Process core Workday transactions and support the overall employment lifecycle activities, including onboarding, benefits, performance, compensation, labor law postings, education reimbursement, and staffing actions.
• Manage global HR policies and procedures, facilitate policy review schedule, maintain policy library, and post policy updates as needed.
• Manage the global HR SharePoint sites, continually enhancing the user experience and ensuring all information is up to date.
• Facilitate the end-to-end onboarding experience from offer to day 1, including initiation and monitoring of background checks, sending new hire communications, facilitating new hire document processing, communicating with managers on their responsibilities with onboarding, and conducting onboarding meetings.
• Construct and disseminate quarterly global HR newsletters and other HR communications
• Respond to employment verification inquiries and various regulatory report requests
• Administratively support the global immigration function and global intern program

Required skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
• 2+ years HR experience preferred with a familiarity of a broad range of HR processes like recruiting, performance, benefits, and compensation.
• Comfortable with project management and the ability to work on multiple high-priority assignments and meet deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate in an inclusive and thoughtful manner with all team members and build trusted relationships with others.
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Professional experience with Workday HRIS preferred.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all criteria listed above. We will consider relevant transferrable skills and experiences for the role.

Russell Investments is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all associates and employment applicants regardless of race, religion, ancestry, creed, color, gender (including gender identity which refers to a person's actual or perceived sex, and includes self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not different from that traditionally associated with a person's biological sex), age, national…