Associate Human Resources

Position Overview

The Associate Human Resources at Amgen provides day-to-day administrative and operational support across the employee lifecycle. You will assist with maintain accurate HR data in Workday, support workplace compliance, and serve as a first point of contact for HR-related queries helping ensure a consistent, high quality employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

Onboarding & Offboarding

• Coordinate new hire orientation, document collection, systems access, and Workday set-up.
• Support transfers, confirmations, exits, and checklists, ensure timely and compliant record updates.

HRIS / Workday & Data Integrity

• Enter and maintain employee data in Workday with precision and confidentiality.
• Run standard reports, perform basic audits, and resolve/route data discrepancies.

Staff Relations & HR Helpdesk

• Act as the first-line contact for HR policy, process, and system queries via shared inbox/SNOW.
• Provide timely, accurate responses, and escalate complex matters to HRBPs/Staff Relations as appropriate.

Payroll & Benefits Coordination

• Compile payroll impacting inputs (new hires, changes, leaves, exits) and validate against cutoffs.
• Support benefits enrollment changes and vendor coordination, track issue resolution.

Policy, Compliance & Documentation

• Maintain audit-ready employee files and trackers, adhere to retention guidelines.
• Support internal/external audits, help implement policy updates and compliance campaigns.

Reporting & Analytics

• Produce routine headcount, JML (joiner/mover/leaver), and leave reports, maintain dashboards/KPIs.

Projects & Continuous Improvement

• Draft/update SOPs and checklists, identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve SLAs.
• Support HR programs (engagement, recognition, learning) and system/process rollouts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 1–3 years of HR operations/administration experience, shared services experience a plus.
• Familiarity with HRIS tools, Workday experience preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), comfortable with spreadsheets and basic reporting.
• Strong attention to detail, confidentiality, and follow-through, ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Clear written and verbal communication, customer-service orientation.