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Global Onboarding Team Lead

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Your applicationOpen nowGlobal Onboarding Team LeadAstreya · Remote, India

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Global Onboarding Team Lead

Role Overview

The Global Onboarding Team Lead will lead end-to-end employee onboarding operations across multiple geographies, ensuring a seamless, compliant, and timely onboarding experience for new hires. The role will oversee onboarding workflows, background verification, HR systems transactions, documentation, stakeholder coordination, and first-day readiness while driving operational excellence, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Global Onboarding Operations

  • Lead and oversee end-to-end onboarding activities across multiple countries and regions, ensuring adherence to global processes, SLAs, and compliance requirements.
  • Manage onboarding from offer acceptance through Ready-to-Hire and Day 1 readiness, coordinating HR, Talent Acquisition, IT, Payroll, Facilities, and other stakeholders.
  • Ensure timely completion and validation of employee documentation, onboarding tasks, and pre-employment requirements.
  • Monitor onboarding volumes, workload distribution, SLAs, aging cases, and escalations across the team.
  • Act as the escalation point for complex onboarding cases and ensure timely resolution.

Background Verification & Pre-Employment Checks

  • Oversee end-to-end Background Verification (BGV) processes, including initiation, tracking, follow-up, completion, and exception management.
  • Coordinate with BGV vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve discrepancies, delays, and incomplete checks.
  • Ensure appropriate completion of BGV requirements before employee start date in accordance with company policy.
  • Maintain accurate BGV trackers and reporting and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.

Workday & HR Systems

  • Manage and oversee onboarding transactions and employee data updates in Workday and other HR systems.
  • Ensure accuracy of employee records, onboarding data, organizational information, and required documentation.
  • Review and validate HR system transactions and identify data or process discrepancies.
  • Support Workday enhancements, system changes, integrations, and business process improvements.
  • Participate in UAT, prepare test scenarios, document defects, validate fixes, and support successful deployment of system changes.

Documentation & Compliance

  • Ensure onboarding processes comply with company policies, regional requirements, audit standards, and applicable employment regulations.
  • Conduct periodic audits of onboarding transactions, employee documentation, BGV status, and system records.
  • Identify compliance gaps and implement corrective actions.

Team Leadership

  • Lead, mentor, and develop the Global Onboarding team to deliver consistent and high-quality employee experiences.
  • Allocate workload based on geography, volume, complexity, and team capacity.
  • Establish performance expectations and monitor individual and team KPIs.
  • Conduct regular team reviews, coaching sessions, knowledge-sharing sessions, and process training.
  • Build cross-training and backup coverage to ensure business continuity across regions.
  • Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Management

  • Serve as the primary onboarding operations contact for Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, Hiring Managers, Payroll, IT, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with recruiters and hiring teams to ensure onboarding requirements are completed within agreed timelines.
  • Manage stakeholder escalations and provide clear communication on onboarding status, risks, and dependencies.
  • Develop and maintain effective governance mechanisms, operating cadences, and stakeholder communication.

Employee & Candidate Experience

  • Ensure new hires receive a seamless and positive onboarding experience from offer acceptance through Day 1.
  • Monitor employee and recruiter queries and ensure timely resolution.
  • Identify recurring onboarding issues and implement preventive measures.
  • Support onboarding communications and employee readiness.

Process Excellence & Automation

  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and digitize onboarding processes.
  • Develop and maintain SOPs, process flows, BRDs, SLAs/OLAs, checklists, and knowledge articles.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives based on operational data, stakeholder feedback, and employee experience.
  • Support automation initiatives and evaluate opportunities to reduce manual transactions and improve turnaround time.

Reporting & Governance

  • Develop and publish onboarding dashboards and management reports covering volumes, SLA performance, BGV status, exceptions, aging, and operational KPIs.
  • Track onboarding performance against agreed SLAs and identify trends and risks.
  • Present operational insights and improvement opportunities to HR leadership.
  • Maintain appropriate documentation and audit trails for onboarding activities.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 10+ years of experience in HR Operations, HR Shared Services, Employee Lifecycle Management, Talent Acquisition Operations, or Onboarding.
  • Strong experience managing end-to-end onboarding operations in a global environment.
  • Experience working with Workday or other enterprise HRIS platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with Background Verification / BGV processes and external vendors.
  • Experience with onboarding documentation, e-signature platforms, employee data management, and compliance processes.
  • Strong understanding of HR operations across US/APAC and/or other international regions.
  • Experience managing or mentoring HR operations/onboarding teams.
  • Strong stakeholder management and escalation-handling skills.
  • Experience in UAT, BRD preparation, SOP development, process mapping, and automation initiatives.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience managing multi-country/global onboarding operations.
  • Experience with HR transformation, Workday implementation, or HR technology projects.
  • Experience managing BGV vendors and onboarding-related third parties.
  • Exposure to immigration, right-to-work, I-9, or other employment compliance processes.
  • Strong understanding of SLA/OLA governance and operational reporting.
  • Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

Role Competencies

Global HR Operations | Onboarding & Employee Lifecycle | Workday | BGV | Compliance | Team Leadership | Stakeholder Management | Process Excellence | HR Technology | UAT | Automation | Data & Reporting | Employee Experience

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