About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life.

Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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Job Purpose

Responsible for executing mass data uploads and bulk loads in SuccessFactors, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with data management standards. Perform regular data reconciliation between Workday and SuccessFactors to identify discrepancies and maintain consistency across HR systems. Investigate and resolve HR system integration issues in collaboration with technical and functional teams, ensuring seamless data flow. Monitor master data quality, identify inconsistencies, implement corrections, and establish preventive measures to maintain data integrity. Manage MDM-related requests and incidents, maintain accurate documentation of uploads and reconciliations, track issues through resolution, and ensure adherence to defined service-level agreements (SLAs), operational controls, and data governance standards.

Key Activities

Provide administrative support to employee life cycle changes such as: new hires, transfers, promotions, terminations, Benefit management, Time & Leave, organizational changes (OM) and data management. Apply specialist expertise to cases from AkzoNobel employees and managers.

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Mass Data Uploads / Bulk Loads: Perform mass uploads and bulk data loads in SuccessFactors, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and adherence to established data management standards.
2. HR System Data Reconciliation: Conduct regular data reconciliation between Workday and SuccessFactors to identify discrepancies, validate data consistency, and ensure alignment across HR systems.
3. HR Systems Integration Support: Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve integration-related issues between HR systems, collaborating with technical and functional teams to ensure seamless data flow.
4. Data Quality and Integrity Management: Monitor HR master data quality, identify data inconsistencies, perform necessary corrections, and implement preventive measures to maintain data integrity and accuracy.
5. Issue Resolution and Process Compliance: Manage MDM-related requests and incidents, maintain accurate records of bulk uploads and reconciliations, track issues through resolution, and ensure compliance with defined SLAs, controls, and data governance standards.
6. Execute weekly reconciliations for data between Workday and SuccessFactors
7. Execute the administrative activities related to employee life cycle changes (i.e. administering new hires, transfers, Benefit management, Vendor co-ordination, Time & Leave, promotions, terminations, organizational changes (OM) and data management
8. Spot opportunities for improvement of processes and systems via input to the team lead.

Experience

- Minimal 8 years of relevant working experience




- This role may require candidate to work either in afternoon or evening shift
- Candidates must possess transition management experience, including successfully transitioning processes/workstreams and driving their stabilization within a delivery or shared services center.
- Exposure to techno-functional and automation capabilities, such as Power Apps, Python, and other automation tools, will be considered a strong advantage.
- Bachelors/Master’s degree preferably in HR
- Solid customer services orientation
- Ability to interpret and apply the HR policies and procedures
- Flexible and stress resistant: The ability to multitask and structure the workload
- Accurate, self-standing and with strong attention to detail
- Experience with HR supporting technology and the capability to quickly learn and adapt to new ways of working
- Eager to learn and keep pace with developments in labour relations
- Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and confidence to effectively work with all levels of the organization (including external parties where necessary)
- Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment
- Fluent in English language, both written and verbally is required

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

📌 People Services Specialist (Pune)
🏢 AkzoNobel
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