Senior HR Generalist

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Human Resources Department

The Human Resources Department has started to move from a renovation to a transformative phase by a continued focus on operational excellence and providing value to the customer.  Today, Human Resources services span the gamut between providing basic information to employees regarding policies to partnering with managers to think through human capital implications. Through focused and interdepartmental initiatives, the Human Resources Department has moved towards automation and centralization of transactional work to create efficiencies and to raise the level of service offered to the enterprise.

About Your Role

Bridgewater’s HR Operations Team is currently seeking an exceptional Senior HR Generalist. Ideal candidates will be passionate about taking on a customer-centric service-oriented role focused on enabling employees, managers, and stakeholders to fulfill their human capital management (HCM) responsibilities via the excellent management of the employee life cycle processes.  To be successful in the role, our Senior HR Generalist must develop subject matter expertise across the full employee life cycle and become a trusted thought partner for managers, employees & stakeholders alike.

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Provide an excellent experience by knowledgably guiding internal customers through the employee life cycle, informing them about HR programs/policies, and adeptly helping them problem solve issues and/or sort through complex cases.  
• Independently identify and proactively implement opportunities aimed at enhancing the experience of internal customers and key stakeholders.  
• Crisply synthesize requestor’s needs, anticipate potential issues, and provide managers, employees, peers, and other stakeholders with appropriate transparency about the chosen path to resolution, progress against the plan, and final outcome to ensure case resolution.  
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for the broader HR Operations team by making well-informed (data and diagnosis-driven) recommendations about ways to evolve critical processes.  
• Create and implement training curriculum and materials for customers, managers and relevant stakeholders. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required - PHR or SHRM CP preferred. 
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of previous human resources experience, with strong Excel proficiency preferred. 
• Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential issues in a mature manner while demonstrating high levels of discretion, e