HR Associate

**Description**:
**About this Role**:
The HR Associate supports business unit clients by providing first line support for HR support,, and programs. This individual is responsible for communicating and responding to basic policy and procedure inquiries, benefits questions, and training matters. Assists the HR partner team with data analysis, change management and talent management activities, organizational design, compensation initiatives, and management of projects. Manages successful onboarding and offboarding programs and operations for all new associates within a specific Business Unit.

**What you’ll do**:
Provide strong business unit partnership and general administrative support to the HR partner teams and overall HR department and respond to inquiries from associates.
- Partner closely with our COEs to provide support where needed for execution of critical tasks and projects
- Project Work/Assignments: Partner on HRP or regional initiatives that drive business solutions to current or future people or process issues.
- Become an expert on system functionality (e.g. Workday, Service Now ) and help associates and leaders adopt systems and processes.
- New hire onboarding, helping to support a positive entry experience into Gartner.
- Take initiative to respond to questions from associates regarding payroll, benefits, etc. in a timely manner and resolves routine problems.
- Supporting HR Partners on Employee Relations cases, with for instance notetaking, letters etc
- General HR Administrative tasks include: maintaining employment files and records per company policy and legal regulations. Offboarding associates leaving the company. Updating personnel transactions in the HRIS system. Provides verifications of employment. Maintain HR paperwork, to include processing terminations, transfers, and job title changes.

**What you’ll need**:

- Bachelor’s Degree
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Administrative experience, preferably in Human Resources
- Outstanding customer service skills and sense of urgency in a services environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, problem-solving and decision-making skills, and ability to handle sensitive documentation.
- Strong report-writing/data analysis skills and a solid understanding of HR and employee data.
- Effective research and project management skills.

**Who you are**:

- Individual who always understands the necessity for confidentiality and professionalism.
- Outstanding ability to multi-task as well as excellent organizational skills.
- Demonstrate a desire to learn and take initiative.
- Strong analytical skills and reporting capability.

**What we offer**:

- A seat to the table to help drive peak performance in a growing, people business.
- Encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo.
- Exposure to industry leading training and development.
- Performance based recognition and rewards.

**Who are we?**

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), we deliver actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have over 19,500 associates globally that support over 15,000 client enterprises in more than 100 countries.

**What makes Gartner a great place to work?**

Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization. That’s why we're recognized worldwide as a great place to work year after year. We've been recognized by Fortune as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies, named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index and a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index. Looking for a place to turn your big ideas into reality? Join #LifeAtGartner

**What we offer**:
Our people are our most valuable asset, so we invest in them from Day 1. When you join our team, you’ll have access to a vast array of benefits to help you live your life well. These resources are designed to support your physical, financial and emotional well-being. We encourage continued personal and professional growth through ongoing learning and development opportunities. Our employee resource groups, charity match and volunteer programs keep you connected to your internal Gartner community and causes that matter to you.

The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of