Operations/Admin Specialist - Saudi

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established
organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way
they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through
a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and
customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.
United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the
brave pursuit of next, our ‎20,000+ people in ‎53 offices around the world
combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer
obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products
and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

This will initially be a contract role for ‎6 months with a potential to be
converted to perm.
Location: Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
As a member of the Operations team , you will work across the entire
Publicis Sapient network globally.
You have finely tuned relationship skills and a proven track record of
building strong personal and professional relationships at all career stages
both internally and externally.
Your relationships are based on your ability to provide a point of a view, an
opinion, a new perspective to our leadership teams on the trends impacting
their business, and then to use this when developing and implementing people
process across the employee life cycle.
You have natural business acumen and are confident in working with Leadership
teams in an independent role.
Your Impact:
* Help the team be as successful as we can be including helping us with overall team OKRs e.g., contributing to and helping measure team happiness, client satisfaction scores, etc.
* Manage office operations and assist in coordinating with teams on set up.
* Ensure compliance with laws and regulations, internal company guidelines, code of conduct and procedures, you will update policies due to legislative changes, business changes or continuous improvement.
* Respond to inquiries related to benefit plans, policies, procedures, and programs and assist employees at all times.
* Oversees and coordinate the employee onboarding process, ensuring both impactful people experience, and compliance and payroll aspects are seamless in the region.
* Coordinate the payroll reporting and data for payroll processing in partnership with our payroll partners ensuring legal and internal compliance and timelines.
* Work with People Success management to support the company values, assist in finding ways to keep them vital for our office and its people.
* Provide project management support to the project teams and various initiatives.
* Prepare expense reports against travel schedule, obtain approvals, and submit on the system for payments.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:
* Experience in Operations, Project Administration, office management or a similar field.
* Should be fluent in English and Arabic.
* A natural people focused attitude, you are confident in building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and personality types.
* Strong client service skills. You display empathy and the ability to consult across the entire employee experience lifecycle.
* A good head for numbers and data, you to create and interpret people data reports, manage multiple web tools and HRMS programs to support finance teams.
* Ability to evaluate priorities and multi-task, accordingly, write business correspondence and create reports, effectively present information, and respond to questions from clients and staff at all levels.
* Must have a high level of interpersonal skills to handle time-sensitive and stressful situations. Use critical thinking skills to make appropriate decisions. Must be able to troubleshoot without little direction and oversight. Position requires demonstrated poise, diplomacy and confidentiality.
* Personality! Must have a sense of humour and be able to see the funny side of life. An enthusiastic participant and a thoughtful observer when the moment calls for it.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.