HR Business Specialist
Celestica Corporation
- Provided comprehensive support and guidance to employees and new hires going on international or domestic assignment or relocating including cultural adaptation, housing, schooling, and other aspects.
- Collaborated with management and finance to optimize cost allocation methods for global mobility expenses.
- Assessed potential risks associated with international assignments by conducting thorough pre-assignment evaluations and proposing suitable mitigation strategies.
- Strengthened relationships between HR departments across different regions through effective communication and collaboration on international assignments.
- Identified areas of improvement within the global mobility program through regular feedback collection from assignees, line managers, and other stakeholders to streamline global policies and procedures.
- Created and managed processes and procedures to coordinate documentation for visa processing on immigrant and non-immigrant applications.
- Supported immigration candidates, foreign nationals, and managers to answer questions, resolve issues, and explain immigration policy and procedures; including application process and options.
- Maintained public access files to facilitate compliance, documentation and execution of immigration policies and procedures.
- Identified potential issues and concerns and proactively escalated to manager and HR Business Partners to reduce barriers.
- Collaborated with outside counsel to interpret and apply technical immigration policies and procedures.
- Built effective relationships with business partners to facilitate immigration program activities.
- Coordinated company short term business travel program to track international travel for home/host country tax liabilities.
- Facilitated weekly data integration process with external provider for short term business travel program to update employee data profiles in immigration travel system.
- Collaborated with payroll and tax services provider to process tax calculations and filings for assignees, relocations and short term business travelers.
- Collaborated with immigration/tax services vendor to streamline short term business travel program submissions to improve employee satisfaction.
- Managed vendor relationships effectively through regular communication updates.
- Collaborated with corporate procurement and management to assess mobility, immigration, and tax services contracts to ensure competitive pricing and services through RFP process.
- Facilitated government reporting including EEO-1, California Pay Data, VETS-4212 and Affirmative Action reporting; including collaborating with site HR regarding preliminary report audit findings, report submissions, etc.
- Collaborated with internal auditors to assess adherence to regulatory requirements, resulting in improved overall company compliance.
