As Assistant Manager, HR & Administration, you'll be the backbone of our Colombo office, driving everything from recruitment and onboarding to payroll, benefits, and employee relations. You'll ensure our local HR practices stay compliant with Sri Lankan labor law while giving employees a trusted go-to for questions, support, and problem-solving. Beyond HR, you'll keep the local office running smoothly, managing vendors, facilities, and events that bring the team together. Working closely with our Global Director, People and Culture - APAC, you'll help shape how Cin7 supports its people on the ground while staying connected to a global team.
What you'll do:
- Provide general support and project management for our Global HR People Operations team
- Provide local human resources support, including supporting employee relations, payroll, compliance, training & facilitation, company events, benefits, advising with management, on/off boarding
- Supports talent acquisition, including the recruitment process, finalization of job descriptions, reviews and sourcing of applicants, scheduling and conducting interviews, checking candidate references and in-country vetting processes, and collecting new hire documents.
- Responsible for the onboarding and orientation of newly employed staff.
- Responsible for staying up to date on local labor laws to ensure HR compliance
- Responsible for drafting employment agreements according to local labor laws, including registering agreements with required institutions if applicable
- Manages local benefits enrollment and ensures all inquiries and challenges employees face regarding their insurance are handled in a timely manner
- Provides information and advice to local staff regarding HR policies and procedures
- Receives and logs various grievances or complaints from employees and handles appropriately
- Provides oversight on updating personnel files and other related HR documents, including employment agreements, amendments, timesheets, calendar holidays, and leaves.
- Drive employee payroll process, including ensuring individual employees submit timesheets on time and reconcile with information on leaves and holidays taken.
- Serve as the point person for our local office, duties including: Maintenance, Mailing, Supplies, IT Equipment, Bills, Shopping
- Oversee office related contract and price negotiations with office vendors, service providers and office lease and ensure related invoices are paid on time
- Provide general support to visitors
- Participate in our regional events team(s) and support planning of in-house or off-site activities, like parties, celebrations and conferences
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What you'll bring:
- Multiple years of proven working experience as an HR Executive, or other elevated HR role
- Ability to work with a global team, supporting employees across different geographic regions and interacting with employees from diverse backgrounds
- Knowledge of HR systems and databases and experience working with HR Metrics
- In-depth knowledge of local labor law and HR best practices
- Strong leadership, training, developmental skills and decision-making skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, in both the local language and English, to produce reports, accept instructions and handle queries
- Strong organization skills and the ability to multitask to complete a wide variety of tasks
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact positively with all employees
- People oriented and results driven
- Attention to detail to ensure tasks are completed thoroughly and correctly
Why work for us?
- We are a fast growing business going through a huge amount of growth.
- You’ll have the opportunity to work on products that are used by our global customer-base and at the same time you’ll be growing your career and developing new skills. You’ll also be receiving:
- Work From Anywhere for 30 days in a six month period
- Celebrate your birthday with a paid day off
- A Global Cin7 Day celebrated companywide, providing you a dedicated holiday to focus on your own wellbeing.
- Medical Insurance on successful completion of probation
- Recruitment referral bonus
- Work for a Great Place to Work®
- Hybrid Working
Skills Required
- Multiple years of proven working experience as an HR Executive or similar elevated HR role
- Ability to work with a global team and support employees across different geographic regions
- Knowledge of HR systems and databases and experience working with HR metrics
- In-depth knowledge of local labor law and HR best practices (Sri Lanka)
- Strong leadership, training, development, and decision-making skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in the local language and English
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact positively with employees
- Experience supporting payroll, benefits administration, onboarding and employee relations
- Attention to detail to ensure tasks are completed thoroughly and correctly
- Ability to manage office operations, vendors, facilities, and event coordination
Cin7 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple U.S. medical plan options, dental, mental‑health resources via TriNet, and vision coverage described as effectively at no cost support strong core coverage. Life and disability insurance and FSA/HSA options add further protection.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) through Transamerica with a company match of 50% on employee contributions up to 6% of base salary provides meaningful retirement support. The plan is clearly structured to help build long‑term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, paid holidays and sick time, a birthday day off, wellness days, and paid volunteer time indicate broad time‑off options. Hybrid/remote flexibility further supports work‑life balance.
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What We Do
Cin7 connects your channels, inventory and accounting together. It dramatically reduces the cost of selling products across multiple channels, and opens up exciting new opportunities for product sellers. We're built on innovation, trust & collaboration, and a passion to see our customers thrive.
Why Work With Us
Cin7 is collaborative to the core. We’ve built a culture of open communication, continuous learning, and social activity to foster individual career development in a fun, team-centered environment. We love to promote from within: growing together, we can provide the best technology for product companies to sell to more customers in more places.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Workplace policies vary by region, but we do allow flexibility in each location.









