Senior Leave & Absence Specialist EMEA

The opportunity
At Unity we recognize that a well-managed benefits processes are key to maintaining a supportive and efficient work environment. We are looking for an experienced Senior Leave & Absence Specialist to join our Wellbeing Organization. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing leave of absence programs across our EMEA workforce, ensuring smooth processes and compliance, and collaborating with employees, managers, and third-party vendors.

Your day-to-day will involve managing leave and absence requests, offering guidance to employees and managers on policies, partnering with our global HR and benefits teams, and ensuring full compliance with legal requirements. This role provides an excellent opportunity to play a key role in supporting Unity’s wellbeing initiatives and fostering a positive employee experience.

What you'll be doing

• Leave & Absence : Manage, process and administer EMEA + India absence related claims including short-term and long-term absences due to illness, injury, or other reasons and leave requests including, maternity/paternity leave and all other types of leave ensuring compliance with Unity’s policies and local legal regulations
• Absence management : Liaise with employees, HRBPs, and brokers to gather and coordinate necessary documentations for new claims, ongoing claims management and return-to-work processes
• Policy & Compliance : Provide guidance to employees, managers and HRBPs on leave & absence rights and responsibilities based on EMEA countries and India
• Keep up to date on local and regional legislative changes, recommend/advise on changes accordingly and educate stakeholders - HRBPs and compliance on changes
• System administration : Ensure leave and absence types on Workday are configured and accurately maintained on Workday according to countries laws, regulations and Unity policies

What we're looking for

• A subject matter and strong experience on leave & absence laws and regulations, particularly in EMEA and India
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally with leaders and HR partners
• Handles sensitive employee information with confidentiality and professionalism
• Able to develop leave and time off proposals and policies for manager sign off
• Can communicate to employees with empathy

You might also have

• Experience working in a fast paced environment
• A strong ability to work towards alignment with stakeholders

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences.  Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.  

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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