HR Operations Executive (Fixed Term Contract – 9 Months)
📍 Location: Goregaon, Mumbai
🕒 Working Hours: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM IST
📅 Contract: Fixed Term – 9 Months
About the Role
We're looking for a proactive and detail-oriented HR Operations Executive to join our People Operations team on a 9-month fixed-term contract.
In this role, you'll support the end-to-end employee lifecycle, working closely with Payroll, HR Business Partners, managers, Finance, and other stakeholders to deliver an outstanding employee experience. If you're organised, customer-focused, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll play a key role in delivering high-quality HR Operations services by:
- Managing employee lifecycle activities, including onboarding, employment changes, leave administration, and offboarding.
- Preparing employment documentation and maintaining accurate employee records in Workday and other HR systems.
- Supporting monthly payroll activities by preparing and validating payroll inputs.
- Responding to HR Operations queries from employees and managers, providing timely and professional support.
- Coordinating onboarding and offboarding activities with key stakeholders.
- Conducting HR data audits to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Supporting employee benefits administration.
- Contributing to HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
What We're Looking For
You'll be successful in this role if you have:
- 2–3 years' experience in HR Operations or HR Shared Services.
- A good understanding of the employee lifecycle and HR administration.
- Experience working with HR systems (Workday experience is an advantage).
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and Word.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and compliance.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A proactive, collaborative, and customer-focused approach.
Why Join Us?
This is a great opportunity to:
- Gain exposure to a broad range of HR Operations activities.
- Work as part of a collaborative global People Operations team.
- Build experience with Workday and other HR technologies.
- Contribute to projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Develop your HR Operations expertise in a supportive and dynamic environment.
If you're passionate about delivering excellent HR services and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!
Why join YouGov?
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
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Skills Required
- 2-3 years experience in HR Operations or HR Shared Services
- Good understanding of the employee lifecycle and HR administration
- Experience with HR systems (Workday experience is an advantage)
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and Word
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong attention to detail with focus on accuracy and compliance
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Proactive, collaborative, and customer-focused approach
What We Do
YouGov is an international online research data and analytics technology group. Our mission is to offer unparalleled insight into what the world thinks. With operations in the UK, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia Pacific, we have one of the world's largest research networks. At the core of our platform is an ever-growing source of connected consumer intelligence that has developed daily over our 20 years of operation. We call it living data. All of our products and services draw upon this detailed understanding of our 26+ million registered panel members in over 55 markets to deliver accurate, actionable consumer insights. Our innovative solutions help the world’s most recognised brands, media owners and agencies to explore, plan, activate and track better marketing activities: Explore Actionable answers from your audience - from syndicated data and in-depth custom research to quick surveys and polls. Plan Unlock the most complete view of your audience, with over a million profiling points. Activate Supercharge campaigns with precision targeting and unmissable advertising. Track Continuously monitor what the world thinks about brands, campaigns and your competition, with daily updates. As innovators and pioneers of online market research, we have a strong reputation as a trusted source of accurate data and insights. Testament to this, YouGov data is regularly referenced by the global press, and we are the most quoted market research source in the world (Meltwater 2022).
