Responsibilities
- Support key HR processes across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, changes in employment status, and employee data management
- Maintain and optimize our HRIS (Workday) ensuring data integrity and workflow efficiency
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Finance, Legal, IT) to support employee changes and ensure alignment across systems
- Maintain clear, up-to-date documentation of HR policies, SOPs, and FAQs
- Support compliance activities such as EEO reporting, I-9 management and audit requests
- Support annual HR cycles including benefits enrollment, performance reviews, compensation changes and engagement surveys
- Continuously assess and refine HR operations to increase scalability, clarity and efficiency
- Provide timely reporting and data analysis to support People related decisions
- Manage administrative support for the People team
- Assist with project-based People team initiatives
Requirements
- 2–5 years of experience in HR operations, people systems, or related roles
- Hands-on experience using Workday HCM including report development
- Meticulous attention to detail and a proactive approach process improvement
- A problem-solving mindset with strong prioritization and multitasking abilities
- Analytical capability to work with dataset— identify discrepancies, clean data, and interpret reports
- Ability to thrive in both structured and dynamic environments
- Strong written communication and documentation skills
- Experience with workflow automation tools and HRIS platforms (Workday) is a required
- A general understanding of compliance basics (e.g., FLSA, I-9s, employee classifications) is a plus
- Ability to be onsite in the Berkeley Office three day per week
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What We Do
Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning. The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines. Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility. The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
